As the first band plugged in, the audience sang along, repeating choruses of praise from four giant video screens: "You are my drink," they sang.
This is why comedies employ running jokes and popular songs feature repeating choruses.
It's singsongy, it's got a repeated chorus, it's anthemic, very loud and percussive, it's a party starter, and it's a commentary about rap, because he's saying, 'I can sell a mill / Sayin' nothing on the track.' " He went on, "I remember rewinding rap songs on cassette to hear the words.
A standard-issue drummer, playing along, say, to the Beatles' "Carry That Weight," would keep his 4/4 beat steady through the line "Boy, you're gonna carry that weight, carry that weight, a long time," until the natural break, which comes at the end of the phrase, where, just after the word "time," a wordless, two-beat half-bar readies itself for the repeated chorus.
Rowland sings a short ad lib, and then the trio ends with a repeated chorus.
In his song, Woody gave symbolic names to the nameless, as if to give his respects to -- and wish peaceful rest upon the fallen "friends" he never knew: "Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita," he sang in repeated chorus, "Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria".
The easiest thing to do is take out a repeated chorus if there's one at the end or something.
Typically, they intensify toward a release of energy halfway through, with rocking montunos, repeated choruses and vocal improvising.
Although the travelling supporters attempted to will it by repeated choruses of "Are you Winsford in disguise?" - a reference to their local rivals - it never came.
The beautiful-girl-sings-catchy-pop-song formula may be simple to crack, but it's hard to repeat: choruses as contagious as That's Not My Name's gobby playground chant don't come along that often.
