You gotta understand something here.

This music is the glue of the world.

It holds it all together.

Without this, life would be meaningless. What are you getting so crazy about? It's just music. Perfect three-minute pop songs don't just come out of thin air. Behind many

pop stars are hired songwriters hard at work crafting those heads.

We take a look at the art of songwriting and we review the long- awaited album from R&B singer Frank Ocean.

That's all coming up on sound opinions.

This is sound opinions and Jim we're happy to report that the weight is over.

Four years since the last Frank Ocean record Channel Orange came out in 2012.

People were waiting for four years basically to find out what's this

guy going to do next. That album got such a claim, won a Grammy Award, then he went pretty much

silent for the next few years. We got a ton of music all at one time, a multimedia

experience streaming video, movies, pop-up stores,

pop-up stores, a and and two albums on top of that endless and blonde

blonde is being billed as the official follow-up to channel orange we're going to

tackle that later on in the show and I'm really

looking forward to that.

Absolutely, Greg. We'll dive deep. That's all coming up later. But first, the art of songwriting.

How is a hit made? We'll look at two different errors, very different errors in pop music.

We'll talk with Ryan Tetter of the pop rock band One Republic about writing for the

likes of Beyoncé and Taylor Swift. But first we'll talk with Barry Mann and Cynthia

Weil. The couple behind immortal hits like you've lost that love and feeling

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