Overall, MY has sounded better over the last few weeks particularly with new adds, like Kelly Clarkson's "Mr. Know It All'. But, strangely, I've once again noticed some regression as far as those 70s and/or slower 80s music that doesn't fit.
Yesterday, I heard two of these back-to-back -- I believe it was Billy Joel then Michael Jackson.
Just when I thought they hit their stride, they still seem to make some mistakes in listenability when you hear Foster the People then something like what's mentioned above.
I know, I'm overanalyzing the station and its playlist. It's just like a jolt to the system when you're hearing mostly up-beat 80s, 90s and 2000s then all the sudden it comes to a screeching halt. It's jarring and seemed to be going away. Now, I'm not so sure.
It's even stranger when you consider some of the harder picks they make, like Alanis Morrisette's "You Ought to Know". Yes, this song was a huge hit. But there's plenty of "safer" Alanis songs they could play. Did you ever notice that big hits with edgier lyrics (sure it's edited, but we all know what they were) go the way of the dinosaur as if stations are fearful of playing them? "You Ought to Know" and Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" are two huge '90s hits that you don't hear too often in the Upstate. B93.7 played "Closer" all the time when it was a hit. But now, even though they occassionally play older "hits", I doubt you'd ever hear that song on B93 again.
So basically, there's some songs I hear on MY that indicate that they aren't afraid to buck the "play it safe" attitude. But then they play older songs that are a direct contradiction of that.
