Pandora and Spotify are totally dominating streaming music in the latest “ratings” in terrestrial streaming. (SiriusXM gets its revenue from subscriptions instead of advertising, so doesn’t have the motivation to closely measure audience)<\/p>\n
Pandora “learns” what you like over time and customizes music to each listener, something radio or SiriusXM can never do. The down side is the songs reinforce your already existing preferences rather that encouraging “music exploration”. Pandora is increasing the commercial load a lot for the free service, but not obnoxiously so. Based on my age, sex and music preferences, the ads tend to be well focused on things I would be interested in – an ad for BCBS of North Carolina, McDonalds, etc<\/p>\n
I’m pretty sure music is burned into your brain during your formative years. Few seniors sing lady Gaga tunes in the nursing home and few millenials make out listening to Johnny Mathis. There are exceptions to every rule of course.<\/p>\n
The music of the 60s and 70s was my era, fading out when disco arrived… wandering down memory lane reinforces the influences that steered this generation in the ditch… Karen Carpenter who sang with herself and faked her TV singing with her brother, singing love songs when she had no love in her life and died of anorexia all alone… John Denver who wrote about his love for his wife Annie who divorced him,and he probably committed suicide by diving his experimental aircraft into the ocean, The Village people singing about the wonders of hanging out at the YMCA, a vain woman singing about how she hates vain people, a Swedish group phonetically singing songs in English they didn’t understand<\/p>\n
This was the era where the people running the entertainment business convinced people what they liked by playing DJs with Cash, drugs and pussy. Music has little appeal. Music has taken an inward spiral with songs of people singing about themselves rather than singing about their friends, people they admire or love. Instead of singing about the futility of war, the love of family, belief that life is bigger than you, watching ships come and go from the bay, a piano man watching the characters in a bar in Allentown, the day the music died…<\/p>\n
Let’s have a look at the top 10 charts and see what the kids are listening to
\n1) the Chainsmakers are singing about having sex on a stolen mattress
\n2) daft punk is a star boy to da bitches
\n3) 21 pilots are singing about their psychopathic murdering friends
\n4) Justin Bieber is getting high but will still rescue his friend
\n5) DJ Snake and Justin Bieber are considering suicide
\n6) DRAM is smoking pot and fantasizing of doing a Columbine
\n7) Shawn Mendez is trying to get a girl to break up with her boyfriend
\n8) Sia is going dancing on Friday night
\n9) Daya is losing his mind
\n10) Olivia O’Brien fucked around and now hates that she loves a guy who used her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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