elements of song

If you were to build a song for me, include any (or all!) of the following and you are near-guaranteed I will like it.

• Body noises
  • Hand claps
  • Snaps
  • Whistles
• Four on the floor
• Really complicated percussion tracks
• Surprise steel drums
• All horns but sax
• Emotionally wrought string parts
• Toys used as instruments

• Idiosyncratic vocals
• Extremely agile vocals
• Proper grammar

• Songs that don’t really end, but just stop
• Songs that get to the point
• Songs that sound like they are from the past/future
• Concept albums

• Lyrical content:
  • Transportation
    • Airplanes
    • Trains
    • Boats
  • Food
  • Dance moves
    • Lists
    • How-to
    • Commands
  • School subjects/nerd stuff
    • Canonical literature
    • History
    • Obscure scientific facts
  • Animal fights
  • Pride
  • Dee-dee-dees, la-la-las, ooh-wa-oohs