i love a song where you think the verse is gonna be 16 bars and then it turns out to be 8. hell yeah. get me to the fuckin chorus. get me to the good shit. nobody wants to write a verse, theyre filler

i also like a song that has two choruses, where you get a new chorus after the chorus and it makes you realise that maybe the chorus was actually just a bridge?? but you could keep going, adding more choruses each time ideally it'd be like. intro, verse, chorus1, verse, chorus1, chorus2, verse, chorus1, chorus2, chorus3, etc.

i believe a middle-8 is to an entire song what a chorus is to a verse, a chorus^2 if you will. so with the additional choruses you can just extend that concept and get the benefit of even greater increasing novelty and intensity. like "oh shit. now it's REALLY going down, THIS must be the real chorus". a lot of TV shows are structured like this nowadays

@djsundog i can't actually think that many prog songs that do this, they normally do like a straight rondo or like, sonata form

@djsundog i do love a rondo though. love me a rondo. what i'm advocating for is like, an 'additive rondo'? there's probably a term for it

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@jk @djsundog wrote a whole bit about transformations into stanza space but it started to undermine my faith in causality so I stopped

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