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The part everyone actually knows, because the verses are just the price of admission.
means The repeated refrain of a song (or, by extension, any group of voices or opinions sounding together).
from From Greek 'khoros,' the group of singers and dancers who commented on the action in Greek drama, standing apart from the main players. It passed through Latin 'chorus' into English, first naming that singing troupe itself before narrowing to mean the part of a song everyone joins in on — fittingly, since the ancient chorus was literally the crowd that sang together.
- song structure
- designed to repeat so it hijacks your memory
- greek origin
- originally a group of masked singers commenting on tragedy
- pop science
- hooks work by resolving tension verses deliberately withhold
- pedal effect
- also a guitar pedal that fakes multiple instruments playing