Good Question: Why Do Some Songs Just Fade Out?

Billboard answers your most pressing questions about the music business: Why do some songs fade out and others end cold? 

I think back in the pre-rock era songs used to end cold often because they were not so repetitive and they tended to be more about a story,” [pop artist Jose] Promis muses. “I think fades are more a rock-era studio trick and a way of ending when a song has a repetitive chorus. It gives the impression that one could continue singing the song forever since it just sort of fades away.

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