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HackettFan
Forum Senior Member Joined: June 20 2012 Location: Oklahoma Status: Offline Points: 7946 |
Topic: Redefining what people want Posted: August 08 2014 at 08:17 |
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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? |
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Dean
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Posted: August 08 2014 at 09:15 | |
Those long songs do so get in the way of the adverts don't they.
...and of course, they pay mechanical royalties per minute.
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What?
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JD
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Posted: August 08 2014 at 09:54 | |
This will push the listenership of regular radio down the level of 10 year olds who have about that much attention span. This dude needs to look at the state of the CD market to see what idiotic decisions made by so called industry leaders does to a business / industry. I moved away from radio more than 25 years ago because there was too much talk and ads and very little music, even less music of interest. So good luck with that.
On a side note maybe this is indicative of what's to come anyway. Radio stations that have nothing but ads with DJ's thanking the sponsors for their commercials spaced by 15 second instrumental blips that sound more like the THX or Dolby theme's than any semblance of a song. Just last night I saw an ad on TV for a show that watches people sit on their couch while they watch TV. The end of the world is upon us folks Slow funeral dirg played here |
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UMUR
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Posted: August 08 2014 at 10:08 | |
^The apocalypse indeed mate.
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HackettFan
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Posted: August 08 2014 at 10:31 | |
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Gerinski
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Posted: August 08 2014 at 11:04 | |
Well, most of these modern 3 min Pop songs are too long for me too
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: August 08 2014 at 11:05 | |
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.
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Gerinski
Prog Reviewer Joined: February 10 2010 Location: Barcelona Spain Status: Offline Points: 5093 |
Posted: August 08 2014 at 11:18 | |
TV Reality shows are becoming a real cancer, it's like they compete for who makes a worse, more decadent one, and as incredible as it seems, people watch them.
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CPicard
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Posted: August 08 2014 at 12:03 | |
I can't wait to see this guy working in a radio station specialised in classical music and operas...
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chopper
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Posted: August 08 2014 at 12:49 | |
He can just play Napalm Death and Ramones songs all day then. Tw*t.
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: August 08 2014 at 12:50 | |
Who listens to the radio?
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uvtraveler
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Posted: August 08 2014 at 12:51 | |
That's what AM radio used to be for...I think the "25 or 6 to 4" AM radio version was 2+ minutes long when I was a kid. I didn't even know Kath could play anything until I got the LP version.
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chopper
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Posted: August 08 2014 at 13:01 | |
I know, let's edit down "Bohemian Rhapsody", it's far too long.
"Is this the real life, is this just fantasy" - nah, boring, get shot of that. "Mama just killed a man" - yeah leave that line in. Take the rest of that bit out. Opera section? Nah, boring, take that out. "So you think you can stop me" - yeah, leave that in, that's quite good. The ending?, nah too slow, take it out. What's left? 53 seconds, yeah that'll do. Now, about this "Stairway to Heaven".
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HackettFan
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Posted: August 08 2014 at 13:36 | |
Edited by HackettFan - August 08 2014 at 23:01 |
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musitron
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Posted: August 09 2014 at 07:42 | |
LOL!
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musitron
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Posted: August 09 2014 at 07:43 | |
LOL ! Note: please forget my previous message. I press the wrong 'quote'.
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zappaholic
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Posted: August 09 2014 at 08:42 | |
Man, what's with Calgary. First they give the world Nickelback, and now this yutz. |
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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: August 09 2014 at 08:59 | |
It's not how long you make it, it's how you make it long. - George Carlin
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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moshkito
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 04 2007 Location: Grok City Status: Offline Points: 16184 |
Posted: August 09 2014 at 09:28 | |
Just another commercial puppet!
And we're too stupid to trash him and put him in his place. Besides, all he is doing is picking up the young girls at his station to make his ego ... errrr (something else!) ... bigger!
So the girls he picks up are too stupid to listen to music? For real?
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dr wu23
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 20478 |
Posted: August 09 2014 at 12:50 | |
That's a good question.
I only turn the radio on in the car if I forget to take cd;s with me.
None of my kids listen to the radio but play songs on their various devices.
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