Listening to Ryan Adams' latest album, Easy Tiger, I was wondering just why it was that my two favorite songs Two and Everybody Knows both use Verse-Refrain-Verse-Refrain format and clock in on either side of 2:30 by a few seconds. Another song I'm also performing lately— Getting Better—clocks in at just 2:47. Reading Joshua Allen's piece about 2:42 being the ideal song length, I wonder if he's on to something about songwriting economy.
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