Stealing Ideas from Madness – House of Fun
Chords and harmony, Form in songwriting, Songwriting Structure, Stealing ideas, key change | (0)
House of Fun is a breezy, quirky, cheersome little pop song by Madness. It has an up-tempo ska groove to it and a video that steals liberally from Monty Python sketches.
It's great fun, but this is Songwright so the important question is: are there any songwriting ideas we can steal from this song?
Of course there are! And in particular House of Fun includes a fantastic idea for changing key.
1. The structure
Intro, verse 1, verse 2, chorus, verse 3, chorus, middle section, verse 4, chorus to end.
That, in a nutshell is the stucture of 'House of Fun'. Each section is very ...