People write songs around this progression because people want to hear songs written around this progression.
I very strongly suspect your causation is backwards here. People want to hear songs written around this progression because it's familiar -- because every person in the Western world has some kind of meaningful context for that progression.
Certain chord progressions don't innately sound better than others. If they seem to, it's a result of cultural bias, not mathematics.
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Date: 2010-10-19 12:40 am (UTC)I very strongly suspect your causation is backwards here. People want to hear songs written around this progression because it's familiar -- because every person in the Western world has some kind of meaningful context for that progression.
Certain chord progressions don't innately sound better than others. If they seem to, it's a result of cultural bias, not mathematics.