In a message dated 21/08/01 04:12:36 GMT Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Clear Channel does not care about listeners. They want the broadest
audience
possible to deliver to advertisers. So the songs which make it on air are
the
ones that are least likely to offend people. I recall sitting in a meeting
with a
radio research company where they basically explained that the corporate
radio
owners wanted songs that do not illicit strong emotions, either positive or
negative. What a laugh, right!? >>
This is so deeply depressing, Brenda, that it almost beggars belief. Don't
these people have souls?? And so the relentless homogenisation of everything
that can be prostituted to turn a profit continues apace. As to the Radio
Station as a Computer Software Programme phenomenon, we already have that
here; records are categorised according to their genre, bpm, "mood" and so
on.
I can just picture the wonks scratching their heads over anything more
complicated than Baby I Love You. "So, Refuge of the Roads. It's, like,
jazz, wouldn't you say?" "Nah, it's got a chick singing on it, so it's
singer-songwriter." "Whatever. BPM is too slow to measure. That's not
good." "And mood? It kinda sounds downbeat, right?" "Yeah, but it's got a
moon/June rhyme, so maybe we can put it under In A Mellow Melancholy Mood"
Etc etc.
Azeem
