Hit songs must be simultaneously identical to and distinct from other hits.

Evidence

The publisher wants a piece of music that is fundamentally the same as all the other current hits and simultaneously fundamentally different from them. Only if it is the same does it have a chance of being sold automatically, without requiring any effort on the part of the customer, and of presenting itself as a musical institution. And only if it is different can it be distinguished from other songsa requirement for being remembered and hence for being successful. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 266

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The same-and-different paradox is a genuinely dense structural claim — the market mechanism of standardization and differentiation fused into one imperative.
• XREF: connects to: Popular music hits must be identical to rivals yet individually memorable to sell — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1018; Identical text can differ in originality depending on authorial context. — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 2029; A word’s identity requires repeatable difference with a trace of sameness — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 458 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Popular music hits must be identical to rivals yet individually memorable to sell — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1018; Identical text can differ in originality depending on authorial context. — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 2029; A word’s identity requires repeatable difference with a trace of sameness — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 458 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Popular music hits must be identical to rivals yet individually memorable to sell #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1018