Four chords = a hit pop song

Here’s the proof, by the Axis of Awesome:

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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    jrazinha

    Ah, the viral comes to DI….but it's still as funny – and dead on – now as when I first saw it last year.

    1. Avatar of erichvieth
      erichvieth

      Jim: I'm just not with it . . . I'm not cool. I'm not hip.

      It's a lot easier to pick the videos that are already popular than to pick the ones that will someday be popular.

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    Niklaus Pfirsig

    A few years ago, members of the glam metal band "Twisted Sister"realized that there was a notable similarity between the melodies of their hit song "We're Not Gonna Take It" and the old standard Christmas carol, "Oh Come All Ye Faithful" . They decided to to create an album heavy metal Christmas carols titled "Twisted Christmas" and made it available for a limited time as free non-DRMed download

    "We're Not Gonna Take It"
    "Oh Come All Ye Faithful"

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