I was talking with my Verve Pipe writing partner Channing Lee yesterday. I said, “You know what we need to do? We need to copy the same formulaic chord progressions of every hit song from the last 10 years (they’re all so similar), eliminate the urge to write a pre-chorus and a bridge (hit songs don’t have them anymore), and think of ONE good line of lyric, and repeat it over and over, instead of obsessing over every word.” “Ok, let’s do it,” she said. “But you know we’ll pro