Originally posted by chris mood
. . . sounds like paint by numbers to me.

Perhaps, but if you ever want your songs to be popular, you'll have to follow Seiko's format.

People like to hear the same thing repeated. They like to know what's coming next so they can sing along. A song with a bunch of unexpected changes and modulations is not going to be popular among anyone but musicians, because regular, "casual" listeners won't have the ear for it and won't understand what's going on.

I'm all for writing funky stuff with modulations and unexpected changes in time signature because I'm a musician/guitarist, but if you want to write songs like that, don't expect to hear them on the radio any time soon.