The group in question was Generation Y. I believe you've noted that's not you.
You're not the audience the programmers need to focus on. It might be beneficial to keep that perspective in mind.
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Does anyone besides me think AC today is a joke?
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The group in question was Generation Y. I believe you've noted that's not you.
You're not the audience the programmers need to focus on. It might be beneficial to keep that perspective in mind.
Yeah.......ok
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Well, it's a lot more rhythmic than it was in the days of "A Whiter Shade of Pale" and "Honey." And for someone with deep connections to Latin America, its radio and its music, today's pop probably is a more comfortable fit. Not worse, not better, just more comfortable.
And once again we're forgetting: once its background music in businesses then you treat it like the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction. You assume kids are watching (listening) and clean it up. So, yes, there is still a problem.
Nope, not forgetting anything. (And the Jackson incident was a ridiculously overblown bit of nonsense). Pretending pop music hasn't long had connections to things like sex is revisionist history.
The precious Angels will be just fine if they hear a Whitesnake song. If they even pay the slightest attention.
Whitesnake is a problem because it is too loud.
There is still a problem if the lyrics are raunchy, and you can be sure whoever decided to put that in a place of business will hear about it.
There is still a problem if the lyrics are raunchy, and you can be sure whoever decided to put that in a place of business will hear about it.
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And I think you can be sure absolutely nothing will happen, even if you (or someone else) complains. You are not, despite what the tone of your posts implies, the arbiter of what does and does not constitute acceptability for the masses.
Read the lyrics for yourself:
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/w/whitesnake/here+i+go+again_20146215.html
Where are the "raunchy" lyrics? All I see is one man's search for answers and the meaning of life, even at one point praying to God for "strength to carry on".
You remind me of that episode of WKRP in which a religious group tries to impose its censorship of songs they disagree with. It goes too far after the minister in charge starts dictating the removal of songs the station hadn't even played, and Mr. Carlson finally tells them to go away after they want "Imagine" by John Lennon removed.
Here ... watch it for yourself then see if you find any parallels in behavior:
https://youtu.be/bUWJ1K_X468
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In all likelihood, you can also be sure that they will have a good laugh about the complaint af happy hour.
The audience, writ large, determines appropriateness in general. Those left shouting on the fringes will by and large be ignored.
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Bob, I figured it out. We're wasting our time.
This is another case of "you kids get off my lawn" syndrome.
I have no problem with it but it would be annoying in a bank.
Bobby Darin's "Beyond the Sea" got played on a "beautiful music" station in Myrtle Beach.
WMUU, when it was a station and not just online, could be loud even though it was beautiful.
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K.M. Richards
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I think you spend too much time finding things that annoy you and complaining about them. How about letting these things roll off your back, uncommented upon, for a change?
And you still haven't answered me about the perceived "raunch" in the Whitesnake song, BTW.
No, it was "Blurred Lines" that had raunchy lyrics, though I've been assured they're not that bad.
If you have trouble understanding how I can find Whitesnake offensive in a professional office, there's no explaining it to you. We're just different. We won't agree and I just really don't know how to make it clear.
Would you just please let me complain as that's why I come here? I feel better when I rant about things. Occasionally people even agree with me.
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Although listening to complaints becomes very depressing to anyone who reads message boards, I tolerated yours for quite a while before you finally got to me.
No one likes a person who is always downbeat and complaining about everything they can. And your pattern of complaints is often more targeted at the evolution of the adult contemporary format to reflect the changing musical tastes of the audience as the older listeners "gray out" by hitting the age 55 mark and newer listeners come in from the mid-20s age-wise. In fact, that is why I take offense at your ranting; complaining here changes absolutely nothing and the repetition of your rants is what becomes the most annoying.
There is no amount of people agreeing with you (mainly because they, too, are objecting to progress) that changes my opinion of your posts.
So to answer your question: No, I will not. If your rant includes something I disagree with, I will exercise the same right you claim in posting.
There isn't a rule saying he can't rant about such things. I happen to agree with him, and I come from gen Y (I am 21.) Since so many people listen to their radios, in their cars or elsewhere, it is worth commenting that the format has moved away from what it has been and changing directions. While some people (maybe yourself included) like the changes, others do not. People have differing opinions, so respect that.
Everyone ... calm down.
This is a discussion group. It's not a rant group.
Everyone has their own life experiences and their own opinions.
Thankew!
This is a discussion group. It's not a rant group.
Everyone has their own life experiences and their own opinions.
Thankew!
The thing is the format, meaning music women 25-54 by and large wish to hear, isn't changing. There's simply a different group of people occupying that space, and not surprisingly they want something different than their ancestors. It's a dynamic that's played out over and over again. To some extent, it will again in the future, though as has been pointed out, the way people have thought of formats will change, radically. That's beginning to take root now; it's just a matter of time. The music will certainly change, that much will repeat, but the walls dividing genres will become largely relics of the past.
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I never said he couldn't rant.
I said I was tired of his rants, that I found them to be repetitive, and that all this complaining is not changing anything to his liking ... and never will. Those are my opinions.
I did not express an opinion of whether or not I "like the changes", so you have overreached there, sir, in trying to second-guess me in that part of your post.
However, I thank you for summarizing so well that part of my post about the format moving away and changing directions.
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Anyway, the main idea here is that there should be a format that is bland and not offensive that I think many people are looking for. While I couldn't be completely satisfied with the old solution, the stations were there if I needed them. I'm actually one of the luckier ones because I have soft radio stations where I live, at least during the day. In one case, I have a station if there's not some sports event, which of course is a part of its community service and a big reason the station is doing well. The advertisers really seem to support the sports. Or if there's not a talk show, which they recently added during the noon hour. I can always switch to Rush. The same station might also have a substitute DJ in the morning who has no concept of what the station is supposed to sound like, based on how the man who ran the station for more than ten years does his morning show. No, it isn't quite like the music Jeff Rollins and Carl Hampton play, but it's mostly good. There is anther soft radio station which isn't close enough for me to listen to reguarly. If I am closer to Charlotte, it's great. But what if the fund-raiser isn't successful and can't keep the music going? Plus, the music doesn't start until 9 each morning and Saturdays are mostly talk.
There is another site where I talk about how the soft AC music in the grocery store has been replaced with what is almost Hot AC. And yet the volume level is low enough it's not a big concern and I've found myself staying neutral as I tell them what I hear.
There is another site where I talk about how the soft AC music in the grocery store has been replaced with what is almost Hot AC. And yet the volume level is low enough it's not a big concern and I've found myself staying neutral as I tell them what I hear.
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Also, the station I usually listen to can have interference in certain areas. Or sometimes even at home. It happens in the car along a main power line that goes past my house )and in my house when that happens) but not often.
Anyway, the advice I have been given, in the words of Melissa Manchester, "Just keep it inside and learn to hide your feelings."
Anyway, the advice I have been given, in the words of Melissa Manchester, "Just keep it inside and learn to hide your feelings."
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