 1.15.19  1:45 pm   You said "if there was a way to guarantee a song will sell, surely everyone would be doing it"  True. Btw, Just to be clear, I'm not the one making the argument. It's other people. And man!, some of the song just sound so good.  But the most common genre of music that gets this criticism is Country music. They say that they all sound the same and talk about the same stuff in their songs.  ?
'all sounds the same' has a different meaning depending on whether you like or dislike the sound