I'm mainstream, and I have pretty chart-tastic tastes. I don't often veer away from a big melodic song with big words for big stadiums.
I want to make great songs.
I like big, soaring melodies and fun, splashy lyrics. Maybe like what Blondie would do in 2013.
I'm a sucker for pop melodies, things you can't get out of your head.
I always liked really heavy guitar music, but didn't like the long-winded songs that went with it. And I always liked pop songs, but was driven nuts because the guitars were so wimpy sounding. So I decided to put the two together. That's how the Muffs started.
When it comes to the music, the traits you got to have in order to make lit music, club music, to have the swag with it, to have the lingo - I got those traits, you know what I mean?
With guitar riffs, we always look for something that 's a little bit special. We've always found that it is harder to come up with something that's nice and simple without getting something that's hard but easy.
It's so great when there's a catchy song that's fun and easy to listen to, but there's also a real artist behind it.
I love countermelodies, I love hooks and melodies that stick in your head. If I could put 20 melodies in a song and they would all work together, I would.
I try to write catchy hooks but, at the same time, things that mean something that will provoke thought.
From the ashes of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets transformed its grandiosity and excesses into boldness and virtuosity. Plus, it wasn't afraid of a catchy hook or two.
What I like about Kasabian is that it's melody driven.
For me, pop melodies are their own thing that have their own emotion, but they don't necessarily belong exclusively in a pop song.
You should listen to songs and listen to what works. Listen to why a song is a hit. Check it out-not to imitate it, but there are certain things that work-hooks and melodies. Hear what works through the ages.
First of all, The Go-Go's have always had pop melodies, OK? And the punk aspect was just at the root of it.
My goal is to write catchy songs that make people feel something.
I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase.
Our sound is really hard metal but looks cute, and in some parts of the song the lyrics are really cute.
A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.
The hits always wind up being the songs with big, high choruses. They're the ones too high to sing every night - not that you'll ever, ever hear me complain about having to try.
Even when I wrote death metal songs for a death metal record, I was always trying to do my best to make it as catchy as possible because that's how I like music.
I describe my own music as epic love pop.
I love a good chorus, you know? I consider a lot of what I love pop. I consider Mitski pop.
