Originally Posted by Il Duce

isn't just having a chord sequence based on its root chord, with the scalar elements of each key, say - I major, II minor, III minor, IV major, V major, VI minor and VII minor, the most widely-used tonality in most modern songs? - it's because they appeal most to the untrained ears

if you're gonna subsume it and lead it to another key/root chord, the tonality isn't really that appealing, at least to somebody who's already used to the "normal" tonality