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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA
A long song is more likely to "lose" me so that I realize, instead of being absorbed in the song, that I am listening to it. A song that I deem "good" makes me feel that the emotions I hear in the song are actually there, existent...when really I'm just listening to a pattern of sound frequencies. So then I start to wonder: what causes a long song to lose my interest? What causes a long song to retain it?
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Just my two cents here. In answer to your question, Erica, whether a song is long or short,
melody is key for me. Admittedly, this is the reason why I tend to like short-to-medium songs: usually melody is better "contained" in songs of that length and there are fewer interludial passages breaking up the melody. Even if I'm listening to longer jazz tracks, for instance, melody has
got to be there and returned to before too long, or else I lose focus. Maybe I just have a short attention span!