Colin O is obviously not a musician and this article went waaaaay over his head. The point of the video was to show how a lot of hits are the same recycled chord progressions. CGAmF can be changed to any other key (like DABmG) and when you look at all of these songs, you see that they are all the same base progressions with slightly different melodies. To say “All Music Is The Same 4 Chords” is hyperbolic; most thinking humans don't actually think the author intended that statement to be interpreted as a fact. The exaggeration simply underscores the point of the article, and I think the whole thing was very very well done.

Colin O is obviously not a musician and this article went waaaaay over his head. The point of the video was to show how a lot of hits are the same recycled chord progressions. CGAmF can be changed to any other key (like DABmG) and when you look at all of these songs, you see that they are all the same base progressions with slightly different melodies. To say “All Music Is The Same 4 Chords” is hyperbolic; most thinking humans don't actually think the author intended that statement to be interpreted as a fact. The exaggeration simply underscores the point of the article, and I think the whole thing was very very well done.