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When You Say Something Or Sing Something Enough Times, It Becomes A Self-fulfilling Prophecy. It's Almost Like Casting Spells. I Don't Mean Necessarily In The Flighty, 'i'm Going To Go Buy A Cloak With A Hood Now' Way.

I Didn't Really Get London Until I Read Dickens. Then I Was Charmed To Death By It.

And Of Course, Pop Music Is All About Memorability And Simplicity And Positive Messages And A Little Dash Of Joy.

Any Kind Of Anthemic Song, For The Most Part, They're On The Positive Side Of Things. It's Not Hard To Identify When A Melody Is Just One Degree Too Complicated Or One Degree Too Simple And Where That Line Of Pop Memorability Lies.

If You Keep Bashing Your Head Against The Same Wall, At Some Point You're Going To Fall Over And Be Still For Awhile.