Total Happy Up And Sunny by Sascha Ende
HANDCRAFTED (HUMAN-MADE) MUSIC
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- License CC BY 4.0
- ISRC DELJ81764878
- Release Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016
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A little story about this old song.Task for me: Produce the most unimaginative and "calculated" song EVER. Goal: To prove that points 1-4 are no guarantee for success and that creativity is valued in an experimental sense.
1. take the most famous of all chord sequences, which always guarantees success: C - G - Am - F
2. use the instruments that appear in the most popular library songs Simple 4/4 beat, a bit of guitar, piano, xylophone, marimba, high strings, clapping, ...
3. repeat everything over and over again, no too much ups and downs, so you can use it as a continuous loop
4. use a title with lots of happy words, even if they don't make sense, "total" is always great because it enhances everything afterwards, "happy" stands for total happiness, "up" is always better than "down" and "sunny" is something people like because the sun is our life-giver.
The song was produced after about 3 hours and is still not out of the sales charts. Unfortunately I lost the bet against me. Sad realization until today: Conceptual music always sells better than experimental ventures.
So when I take a pile in the toilet in the morning, totally sleepy, it's more creative than this one song :)
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Total Happy Up And Sunny
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016
A little story about this old song.
Task for me: Produce the most unimaginative and "calculated" song EVER. Goal: To prove that points 1-4 are no guarantee for success and that creativity is valued in an experimental sense.
1. take the most famous of all chord sequences, which always guarantees...
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Comments
Wednesday, October 25th, 2023
I laughed really hard reading the description. I kinda hate it too but my client picked this one out of like five songs :D . But I love the rest of your stuff :))
Monday, April 24th, 2023
My guess as to the reason of it's popularity: boring and repetitive songs that are still good and upbeat are often very good for background music, which is what I'm using it for.
Sunday, March 26th, 2023
You know, besides all the "musical tech stuff" it is just a simple & cool number that can be used in a huge variety of videos! Now go out and make more...
Thursday, October 27th, 2022
@SaschaEnde I don't believe the words art and contest should be used together.
Thursday, October 27th, 2022
@SaschaEnde I can totally empathize. I have learned that the public on average has average taste.
Wednesday, October 26th, 2022
But congratulations for cracking the code
Wednesday, October 26th, 2022
How depressing that your unimaginative and algorithmic song is also the most popular.