"it's the lyric that makes a song a hit" I don't understand the lyrics in Portuguese of some very known earworms. Do native speakers understand the pronunciation of Curt Cobain? Likely, but I guess not many people else. What about earworms such as Serenade No. 13? It's easy to understand the lyrics of the Beatles, even with broken English, but a lot of people don't understand their lyrics, still like the earworms. No, a tune makes a song an earworm and heavy rotation makes a song a hit, if you play a 3 minutes recording of a jackhammer by heavy rotation on radio and TV, it will become a hit. I would prefer my neighbour would listen to jackhammer recordings instead of the four to the floor recordings he's listening too, it would be less psycho-terror for my taste, there are more nuances by a jackhammer. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
