There seems to be this trend in lots of modern music, across genres, where the song will be coming around for a repeat of the chorus and then it ticks up in pitch for that section, then drops back down for the ending of the song.
What is the purpose of this? What is it called? Is it supposed to produce some kind of mood? My level of music understanding is “major = happy, minor = sad” and that’s about as far as I go. Please go on the music theory.
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Do you have an example? Sounds like you’re talking about a key change. The Ramones “I Wanna be Sedated” has one. It’s just a cool way to make the song more interesting. There’s no real point to it. It could be done because the singer can’t sing that high for a whole song. Sometimes musicians will play songs at a lower tuning live so the singer can hit the notes better but that’s different from what you’re talking about.
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