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Disappointing, given the title.

Yeah, it really just touches on the 2 recent plagiarism issues. They then go on discussing the new album basically. Not much "science" if you ask me.

If you really are interested the following book gives great insight to the "science" of it all. It's a how to guide but it gives great insight.

This is about how Stock/Aitken/Waterman thought about it. They wrote/produced more than 100 British chart hits in the eighties and nineties. http://z3.invisionfree.com/Madonna_Dot_Refugees/ar/t12695.ht...

The author of that book has a decent Coursera course as well.

Considering that Death Cab For Cutie isn't even that good, I would have been disappointed either way.

Gibbard's songwriting is so formulaic and mawk-laden that it would have been interesting to see the blueprint!