system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why are songs typically about 3.5 minutes long?

Edit: Woah this got popular. Thanks for the answers :)
gpt
Short answer: Because it just feels right.

Long answer: Because we've been conditioned by years of pop radio to believe this is the perfect song length, any longer and we'd start to get bored of it; any shorter and it'd feel like we'd been robbed. It's a largely arbitrary length born in the radio age that allows us to flesh out the song in a pretty full manner, while not boring the listener nor inviting them to switch to another station.