Is 2:42 the Perfect Song Length?

Listening Post/ wired dot com

” In music, brevity can be the soul of listenability. One of the most obvious traits of the “most unwanted” song ever recorded is its 22-minute length. If that monstrosity lasted two minutes and 42 seconds, maybe more people would want to hear it.

Joshua Allen of The Morning News would agree that short songs are best. He wrote last week that the perfect track length is precisely 18 seconds short of three minutes — making 2:42 a kind of golden mean of audio…”