Redefining what people want

Dean wrote:  what remains when you edit-out all the boring bits from Nickelback?

The sound of no hands clapping. A pin dropping. Crickets chirping. Ears ringing. The sound of three bean salad with no beans.

Ya know, seriously, they identified their goal being to keep people from getting bored, and they did some research into iPod fatigue, but I'm betting that that research didn't give them any explanation for the fatigue. Boredom is necessarily always going to be affected and magnified by time, so what? Why are they getting bored at all in the first place? They just presume that it's because of length and length alone, but 3-5 minutes too long? It strikes me as more plausible that people are getting bored by their own music because of the nature of the music.

Edited by HackettFan - August 09 2014 at 21:18

 what remains when you edit-out all the boring bits from Nickelback?

dr wu23 wrote: HackettFan wrote: I listen to NPR, obviously. Ok.....didn't know they had prog radio but I used to listen to a NPR pop/rock show that featured one band , interviewed them, and played their music

No, no, it's the NPR news segments I'm referring to. When NPR goes off there're classical music programs that come on that I listen to. Sometimes I forget to bring a CD and I end up listening to a local rock station. One outrageously edited song I heard was Santana's Black Magic Woman. They cut off the guitar at the end. Now anyone familiar with that song knows that there is not a lot of extended time invested in that little bit there for them to save. It's hardly worth it. What is lost, though, is a very critical climax.

I listen to NPR, obviously.

HackettFan wrote: ... A radio programming executive in Calgary thinks today's songs (3-5 minutes!) are too long. He wants to redefine what listeners want by playing only songs that he/his outfit has edited for length. No, I don't live under a rock. I've heard the results of such editing done before on the radio, but to hear such blatantly Orwellian goals laid out so programmatically and undisguised was new for me. Comments?

HackettFan wrote: Here's a link to a recent NPR story: http://www.npr.org/2014/08/07/338606558/your-favorite-songs-abridged A radio programming executive in Calgary thinks today's songs (3-5 minutes!) are too long. He wants to redefine what listeners want by playing only songs that he/his outfit has edited for length. No, I don't live under a rock. I've heard the results of such editing done before on the radio, but to hear such blatantly Orwellian goals laid out so programmatically and undisguised was new for me. Comments?

Man, what's with Calgary.  First they give the world Nickelback, and now this yutz.

PrognosticMind wrote: JD pretty much nailed it up above. News like this is why I'm incredibly cynical towards the consumption of art/media via outlets like radio. Catering to people's dwindling attention spans is doing less and less to help the human race IMHO.

I know, let's edit down "Bohemian Rhapsody", it's far too long.

Edited by chopper - August 08 2014 at 13:01

Who listens to the radio?

I can't wait to see this guy working in a radio station specialised in classical music and operas...