@IoTheEternal @belthagor There's something intelligent about Daft Punk's more famous song chords, though -- they may be the 3, 4 chord formula but they're atypical chords normally.
There's also the reason I used to love Laurent Boutonnat's songwriting.
Troisnyx
Then you haven't accounted for Disney lyrics, outside of Let It Go. Many of them are not necessarily repetitive, but they're beautiful, and people remember them for that.
Repetition, in my mind, is very vastly overdone. Alizée does it to a tasteful degree but I've heard enough tripe on the radio that uses that same technique.
I suppose, then, that it depends on the song being written and that it's not an exact science.
Belthagor (Updated )
@IoTheEternal thoughts? (based on what you said in discord earlier)