Why does everyone sing it like THAT?

Summary by Krater

This video examines why many modern pop, rock, and metal songs use the exact same melodic and rhythmic phrase "caught in the middle," exploring musical concepts like tone painting, prosodic dissonance, the cot-caught merger, and the Scotch snap to explain its rise in popularity.

From the video

Answers: Why do so many songs use the exact same melody for the phrase caught in the middle?

• music theory
• linguistics in music
• prosodic dissonance
• cot-caught merger
• Scotch snap
• tone painting

What it concludes

• The phrase "caught in the middle" is used frequently in popular music because of tone painting, prosodic rhythm matching, the rise of the Scotch snap in pop music, and the cot-caught merger in modern English dialects.