I ask every candidate "do minor chords mean sadness and major chords happiness?" And if they say yes, I say "next!" One thing is clear: the four-chord progression, whether it is this one or a similar one, is pretty much a cliché, which tends to support my belief that much popular music is industrialized formulas for evoking conventional emotional reactions. Now I'm imagining myself on the hiring panel at Berklee and we are interviewing candidates for the theory position. I mean, that's not a bad mixture, one-quarter sadness or darkness and three-quarters light." "And I think that has to do with credibility, what people experience in life. "In a sense, it's three-quarters major and one-quarter, but a very important quarter, being minor. "It starts on a sense of maybe disquiet," he says.
Jack Perricone, chair of Berklee College's songwriting department, thinks the mixture of chords gives the progression emotional heft. Later in the article they quote one music teacher's take on it:
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