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vchimpanzee said:
Loved his first...... Hicktown.
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Worst songs on country radio
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Loved his first...... Hicktown.
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OMHO.....worst is "Mean". Or just about anything else by Taylor Swift.
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WPPCProductions said:
LOL..... are you calling Johnny Cash "new stuff"?
I wonder if Taylor Swift is a nice person to be around. All of her songs sound bitter. At least when she doesn't have a celebrity boyfriend :
PTBoardOp94 said:I wonder if Taylor Swift is a nice person to be around. All of her songs sound bitter. At least when she doesn't have a celebrity boyfriend :
I think "Mean" is one of her better songs. I take it at face value too. It's whoever she's singing about that's not nice to be around.
On one of the awards shows she was "playing" a banjo, so I watched. I actualy liked it.ceejay said:
Which is more than I can say for most of her stuff.
She seems nice to me.PTBoardOp94 said:I wonder if Taylor Swift is a nice person to be around. All of her songs sound bitter. At least when she doesn't have a celebrity boyfriend :
"My Kinda Party". Once again, Jason Aldean.
Why would I go within a mile of that garbage?TheBigA said:
I have no desire to understand his presence. All I want to do is avoid him. If I get lucky, a country FM station will actually be playing good music when I choose to sample it. This doesn't generally happen.TheBigA said:
vchimpanzee said:
Radio's job is to attract large numbers of listeners. If large numbers of listeners want to hear cow farts, that's what radio will play, regardless of whether or not it's good music. You want to hear what you consider good music? Buy it and listen to it on your own device.
I keep hearing a terrible song which turns out to be Miranda Lambert's "Gunpowder and Lead".
Radio is arguably at an all time low for playing what people want to hear, especially in the country genre. Tried requesting a song lately? The stations do not want to hear our requests anymore. Stations are disconnecting their request lines. The closest station here, KHAK, can be reached but they don't want to be. The other two country stations around the area (kmjm, kksy) are even worse, with their purely syndicated air-staff. They can't be reached at all, unless you talk to them on Iheartradio, which they mention every 5 minutes as part of the Clear Channel religion.
No one likes the extremely selective playlists. Kmjm has been playing the exact same "Classic country songs" since it's launch nearly two years ago. They have added new songs to their line-up, which has driven down the listeners even further as no one wants to hear Jason Aldean on a classic country station. Some programmers don't do their homework.
Some stations will say they play what is currently on the charts. But who decides what is on the charts? Most people do not know the answer to that. Clear Channel is capable of making a song chart single-handedly. The charts are not based off what people want, but whatever radio decides. Do you think Jason Aldean would have had even the slightest chance of becoming famous had it not been for radio playing his songs, regardless of what their listeners want? Also, take Jo Dee Messina. I can turn on the radio, any hour of any day and hear a song of hers between the country stations within reach. When is the last time I heard a Faith Hill, Leann Rimes, Shania Twain song on broadcast radio? It's been a good year, at least. Do you honestly mean to tell me they play Jo Dee more than all of them combined because that is what the majority want to hear? Do you honestly think KHAK, the highest rated station in the Cedar Rapids market, didn't play "From a Table Away" (outside of syndicated shows) because the majority supposedly didn't want to hear it, or was there another reason? "Red High Heels" was another song KHAK did not freely play.
People do not like what radio has to offer anymore, which is part of the reason behind the decline of AM and the DOA of HD radio. Radio has simply made too many people unhappy, and therefore, they are leaving. Radio has gone from playing what we want to hear, to what they want to play. In some cases, it is arguable if there isn't a little incentive behind their choices as well.
SiriusXM, Pandora, Slacker, DI.fm, etc. are all growing significantly. SiriusXM is the most valuable company in radio, with Pandora closing in. Broadcast radio dug itself its own grave and now the next-generation of radio is preparing to bury it.
No one likes the extremely selective playlists. Kmjm has been playing the exact same "Classic country songs" since it's launch nearly two years ago. They have added new songs to their line-up, which has driven down the listeners even further as no one wants to hear Jason Aldean on a classic country station. Some programmers don't do their homework.
Some stations will say they play what is currently on the charts. But who decides what is on the charts? Most people do not know the answer to that. Clear Channel is capable of making a song chart single-handedly. The charts are not based off what people want, but whatever radio decides. Do you think Jason Aldean would have had even the slightest chance of becoming famous had it not been for radio playing his songs, regardless of what their listeners want? Also, take Jo Dee Messina. I can turn on the radio, any hour of any day and hear a song of hers between the country stations within reach. When is the last time I heard a Faith Hill, Leann Rimes, Shania Twain song on broadcast radio? It's been a good year, at least. Do you honestly mean to tell me they play Jo Dee more than all of them combined because that is what the majority want to hear? Do you honestly think KHAK, the highest rated station in the Cedar Rapids market, didn't play "From a Table Away" (outside of syndicated shows) because the majority supposedly didn't want to hear it, or was there another reason? "Red High Heels" was another song KHAK did not freely play.
People do not like what radio has to offer anymore, which is part of the reason behind the decline of AM and the DOA of HD radio. Radio has simply made too many people unhappy, and therefore, they are leaving. Radio has gone from playing what we want to hear, to what they want to play. In some cases, it is arguable if there isn't a little incentive behind their choices as well.
SiriusXM, Pandora, Slacker, DI.fm, etc. are all growing significantly. SiriusXM is the most valuable company in radio, with Pandora closing in. Broadcast radio dug itself its own grave and now the next-generation of radio is preparing to bury it.
Casey said:
Depends on how you judge what people want to hear. If you base it on what people spend money on, then you're wrong. Because country radio plays the artists who sell the most and attract the biggest crowds to their shows. By the way, when was the last time Faith, Shania, or LeAnn released new music or did a tour?
Casey said:
And yet when people make up their own playlists, on Pandora or Slacker, that's exactly what they do. The truth is that people like selective playlists of their personal favorites. Radio has to satisfy more than one person. SiriusXM is NOT increasing. It's keeping up with cancelations. Lot of unhappy subscribers because people feel they're paying for what they could get for free. Pandora, Slacker, and other sites are not radio stations, but personal playlist sites. If you want to make your own playlist, and listen to your favorites, that's where you go. Don't expect radio to duplicate that.
I choose those three artists because they all have been less active in recent years, minus Shania's latest work. Jo Dee Messina is arguably the least famous of all 4, yet played the most. Around here, she is actually played more often than Taylor Swift.
SiriusXM is increasing dramatically, expecting to gain another million or more customers by the end of the year. You said in a different thread that 20mil+ subscribers is not impressive, but how is it not? Sure people are not all happy with it, yet they keep subscribing, because they feel it is better than the alternatives. For the majority of people, the only other alternative is AM/FM radio because the majority of listening is done in the car.
And yes, Pandora/Slacker are indeed radio. They offer stations, like broadcast radio. Slacker offers stations which are run by a programmer.
http://www.markramseymedia.com/2011/05/yes-pandora-is-radio/
I am not expecting broadcast radio to be like Pandora, I am expecting radio to stop telling us what we want to hear. Radio is now trying to tell us what the definition of Country is, rather than just playing it. Radio will play songs just because they have the word "country" in it. Radio will play music from artists who have no idea what they are truly singing about, and they will play music from mainly big record companies. Ever heard a song from Miranda Lambert's first album? I would bet most (99%) people have not, but it isn't because she suddenly got "good." It is because she suddenly got a big record deal and radio decided to play her. If they truly play "good" country music, shouldn't they have played her prior to the record deal? I am sure people would have liked her first album, easily as many as do now. So it is not all about radio playing music they think people will like.
SiriusXM is increasing dramatically, expecting to gain another million or more customers by the end of the year. You said in a different thread that 20mil+ subscribers is not impressive, but how is it not? Sure people are not all happy with it, yet they keep subscribing, because they feel it is better than the alternatives. For the majority of people, the only other alternative is AM/FM radio because the majority of listening is done in the car.
And yes, Pandora/Slacker are indeed radio. They offer stations, like broadcast radio. Slacker offers stations which are run by a programmer.
http://www.markramseymedia.com/2011/05/yes-pandora-is-radio/
I am not expecting broadcast radio to be like Pandora, I am expecting radio to stop telling us what we want to hear. Radio is now trying to tell us what the definition of Country is, rather than just playing it. Radio will play songs just because they have the word "country" in it. Radio will play music from artists who have no idea what they are truly singing about, and they will play music from mainly big record companies. Ever heard a song from Miranda Lambert's first album? I would bet most (99%) people have not, but it isn't because she suddenly got "good." It is because she suddenly got a big record deal and radio decided to play her. If they truly play "good" country music, shouldn't they have played her prior to the record deal? I am sure people would have liked her first album, easily as many as do now. So it is not all about radio playing music they think people will like.
Casey said:
Because it's a national service, it's had 10 years to build, and is easier to receive than internet, yet Pandora has 3 times as many users.
You keep reading their press releases. It only talks about the added subscribers, but doesn't mention the cancelations.
Believe what you want to believe about Pandora. It's not local radio. It's closer to SiriusXM.
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