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Old Jun 27 2008, 2:31 PM
DrPangloss DrPangloss is offline

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I think in popular/folk music, rhythms are generally iambic, because that's how we speak. Either in a DAdaDAdaDA fashion or DAdadaDAdadaDA fashion. Not to say there aren't variations, of course there are. But look at that last sentence: of COURSE there ARE. Perfectly masculine iambic. That's how speech patterns go, so I think a lot of popular music follows suit.
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