d21ofnj said:
Tony Santiago said:
Well, it does go by votes. And whoever is the most nominated will win!
And to that, we let the people decide.......
BTW, JerseyDude, go ahead and post this on the Philadelphia Radio Board. They'd LOOOOOVE it! I know they will! ;D
You are an evil man, Tony ;D I like that idea, even though if we won't know the REAL reason why Philly doesn't like the idea of dance music on an FM dial.
Brett and Kris (Super 91.7) can answer this better than I can.
The Philly/South Jersey area has many dance music fans. You can't go by that board as the "consensus" of the music fans of Philly because the majority in there are into rock, talk, oldies and despise it when someone brings up "dans stayshun". I mean, if it was a matter of a spelling bee, then yeah as a dance music community some of us have failed miserably and we deserve to be lashed for it!
But this is a question of musical tastes and perhaps a certain fear that if someone that loves dance in the Philadelphia area brings up the subject, a certain faction within there would just blow them up and put them down. But Brett and Kris know that the fans are out there. They tune in to their stations, go to events, and support the music....which is what counts!
But back to musical tastes, heck, give me some Beethoven or Rachmaninoff and I'm cool with that. I can listen to Zeppelin, Dylan, Aerosmith, Hendrix, just like the rest of them and appreciate it for the generational message within. With the exception of VERY extreme cases of hip-hop and heavy metal (the basics I have no issue with), I'm open to all music. I just prefer dance but am certainly not an enemy of other genres. Nor would I convince anyone that is "core" to their musical taste to flip over to dance. It's just a matter of opening the "playing field" of contemporary music in the United States whereas dance can co-exist equally with everyone else, not to be that "bastard child" anymore.
And Jimi, the thread DOES involve New York because Pulse 87 and Party 105 are two of the nominees in the IDMA (International Dance Music Awards) terrestrial radio category. I only wished that Vibe 94.5 in Las Vegas had made it....oh well, there's next year!
