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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre
A lot of times music that seems simple is actually much more layered than you realize.
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I agree. These days*, I'm actually often quite impressed with the thoughtful progressions of well written pop and singer-songwriter tunes. There can be a lot of pretty nuanced, but subtle things going on with chords, key changes, melodies, background vocals and other vocal layering, little details to add some atmosphere, thematic development, etc.
*and with "these days" I didn't mean necessarily modern songs, but more that I'm personally more able to appreciate the finely crafted simplicity of much music than I used to be.