4 Chords | Music Videos | The Axis Of Awesome
The Axis of Awesome · 3 HN recommendations
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A comedy-music medley from the Australian band The Axis of Awesome showing that dozens of famous pop songs use the same four-chord progression. The performers cycle through a long list of hits over the same chords.
Why HN recommends it: HN commenters use it as the canonical demonstration that popular songs reuse one chord progression, especially in threads on music analysis and AI-generated music.
“the "4 Chords" medley by Axis of Awesome is a great demonstration of its ubiquity” Read on HN ↗