{"id":17633,"date":"2009-07-03T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/07\/03\/the-most-unwanted-song-ever\/"},"modified":"2009-07-03T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T10:00:01","slug":"the-most-unwanted-song-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090703-01\/?p=17633","title":{"rendered":"The most unwanted song ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A follow-up to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2008\/12\/16\/9222934.aspx\"> why ABBA songs are so catchy<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.komarandmelamid.org\/\"> Vitaly Komar, Alex Melamid<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfmu.org\/~kennyg\/popular\/articles\/soldier.html\"> David Soldier<\/a> developed a song <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diacenter.org\/km\/musiccd.html\"> scientifically engineered<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/listening_post\/2008\/04\/a-scientific-at\/\"> to be the most unwanted song ever<\/a>: By their calculations, &#8220;fewer than 200 individuals of the world&#8217;s total population would enjoy this piece.&#8221;\n Ah, opera rap.<\/p>\n<p> Also check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diacenter.org\/km\/index.html\"> The Most Wanted Paintings<\/a>. America&#8217;s Most Wanted Painting contains &#8220;an autumnal landscape with wild animals, a family enjoying the outdoors, the color blue, <a href=\"http:\/\/musicology.typepad.com\/dialm\/2008\/04\/you-want-postmo.html\"> and George Washington<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A follow-up to why ABBA songs are so catchy: Vitaly Komar, Alex Melamid, and David Soldier developed a song scientifically engineered to be the most unwanted song ever: By their calculations, &#8220;fewer than 200 individuals of the world&#8217;s total population would enjoy this piece.&#8221; Ah, opera rap. Also check out The Most Wanted Paintings. America&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-17633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>A follow-up to why ABBA songs are so catchy: Vitaly Komar, Alex Melamid, and David Soldier developed a song scientifically engineered to be the most unwanted song ever: By their calculations, &#8220;fewer than 200 individuals of the world&#8217;s total population would enjoy this piece.&#8221; Ah, opera rap. Also check out The Most Wanted Paintings. America&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}