So I've been taking a world history class at college and we're currently learning about the medieval church modes. One that interested me was the phrygian mode and I was surprised to see that a lot of the songs I wrote were based on the phrygian dominant scale. I was also surprised to see that of all the types of modern music it spawned, flamenco music is among its most successful. In a sense, the crap that I often write is a distant cousin of flamenco music. Who would have known?