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By that I mean:

- Dominated by 2-to-5 minute "songs"
- Verse-chorus structure (usually, with variants)
- Repeating melodic lines
- Rhyming lyrics (usually)

Music, of course, doesn't have to have any of those. But it's basically dominated popular music for well over a hundred years (and maybe longer).

Will the most popular music of some era in the future someday (finally!) feature something besides that? What that would be I don't know, just something - anything! - besides that particular form.

When 200 million or whatever songs get written following that particular pattern, after a while just about every variant and niche is going to get thought of and filled in and anything new will sound like something already done (probably many times). So wouldn't you think they'd finally give up on it and move onto something else?

But maybe not?

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