# Is modern dance/pop music scientifically designed to be catchy?

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**Created:** [April 7, 2010, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-modern-dance-pop-music-scientifically-designed-to-be-catchy/535304 "2010-04-07T18:15:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-modern-dance-pop-music-scientifically-designed-to-be-catchy/535304/41 "2010-04-11T00:01:34Z")

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> [@Meeko](#):
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> :smack::smack::smack: Glad you know it’s a typo.
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> But, strangely, I would pay money if one or the other tried to cover the other.
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> I would pay money for Beastie Boys covering “ **Anywhere Is** ”, provided they rap it:
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> * * *
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> “I walk to the Horizon, and you know what?”  
> “What, Man?”  
> "There I find another. It all seems so Surprizin’ "  
> “And then I find that I know”
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> You go there and you are gone forever, I go there, and I will lose my way, We stay here we are gone together\*.
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> Man, Anywhere is.
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> * * *
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> [\*Ironically, for the Boys to nail this part, it would have to be slower than Enya does it. Almost speaking each word pointedly as they do]
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> I was gonna have Enya Cover a Beastie Boys song, but doesn’t quite work out. I would like to think there would be that ONE song that Enya could do perfectly.

[You speak as if mixing Enya with hip hop is an unheard of concept.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IcDkj-M2po)

[Some more…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn7PRQon_MA)

Enya music is mosty “tones”. A good DJ can probably sample anything with it.

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