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    The Most COMPLEX Pop Song of All Time

    Rick Beato

    3 HN mentions · mentioned in 3 months, 2022–2023

    YouTube

    20:28 · 8.3M views · Jun 23, 2021

    Rick Beato analyzes a pop song he argues is among the most harmonically complex ever, breaking down its chords and key changes. It is a music theory deep dive aimed at general music fans.

    Cited in discussions of chord complexity and key changes in pop music.

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    3 comments from Hacker News

    1. @bambaxApr 2022· in “What chords do you need?”

      The obligatory video is of course "Four Chords" by Axis of Awesome: [LINK] Rick Beato has kind of the opposite video about "the most complex song ever": this video The song in question is Never Gonna Let You Go by Sergio Mendes; plenty of videos exist of it; here's one live: [LINK]

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    2. @stickfigureNov 2022· in “The death of the key change”

      Reminds me of this breakdown of "Never Gonna Let You Go" by Sergio Mendez: this video That song makes everything else look like amateur hour. Somehow it hit #4 on the Billboard Top 100 in 1983. I think I'll stick to bluegrass. In G.

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    3. @RochusJan 2023· in “Pop2Piano: Pop Audio-Based Piano Cover Generation”

      That's amazing, congrats to the authors. Wonder how it would perform on harmonically more complex pop songs (e.g. this video ).

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