You’re at a party and you’re feeling good. The beer is flowing, the girl-to-guy ratio is just right and the music is blaring. Then that magic moment happens. You know the one. It can only be Journey.

A change comes over the crowd. There’s a certain glisten in all the drunk girls’ eyes. The anticipation builds.

And then you hear it.

“Just a small town girl, livin in a looooonely world… She took the midnight train goin anywheeeeere.”
The room explodes.

Girls are singing and jumping everywhere and you’re pretending to care about the song but really just watching the girls jumping everywhere.

Thank you Journey. No frat party would be complete without a little “Don’t Stop Believing” mania, but if it starts to sound familiar, it may not just be because you hear the song every damn night of the weekend.

See, these awesome guys at The Axis of Awesome prove, in the above video, that almost every song that’s been popular ever has the same four simple chords. The same four simple chords that define “Don’t Stop Believing.” Yes, that classic song is the foundation for so many other great and/or annoying songs.

(Note: Yes, many of the songs featured actually came before “Don’t Stop Believing” but I’d still like to give Journey all the credit.)

So who shares the same musical mojo? For the full montage, watch the above video. But here’s just a few of the songs that contain the same chord combo and how they stack up to the one and only Journey:

James Blunt “You’re Beautiful”

This repetitive song is soothing almost to the point of becoming hypnotic. And best of all, in the face of the lyrics, girls just melt. I mean it, they become a complete puddle of mush for your taking, which is nice but not quite a party anthem.

The Beatles “Let It Be”

This is a legit classic that came well before the fake classic that is Journey. Journey bows before the Beatles.

Michael Jackson “Man in the Mirror”

Michael Jackson may be another classic, but has his legacy lived on as strongly as Journey? Can he make women swoon quite like Journey? I think not.

Elton John “Can You Feel the Love Tonight”

Sure most girls love a good Elton John song, especially if it makes them remember fondly those cute cuddly cubs of Lion King. But it will not make them want to jump sloppily into your arms. At least in that respect, Journey wins. It may not be original, but it is the drinking girls song of choice.