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A band known as Fall Out Boy, which, to the best of my knowledge, has not been culturally relevant in 20 years released an "Updated" version of "We Didn't Start the Fire", which was extremely widely panned with such objective sentiment such as "bad" and "unnecessary" and whatever constituency the band had is like 40 now. Or to illustrate photographically, this guy:  Is now this guy:  I know exactly zero people that desire to listen to this abomination, yet, it is being played on Sirius XM Hits 1 and the local top 40 station constantly. Can someone explain this to me? Is there like a shadowy music cartel that decides to force this and other bad songs on us constantly? There has to be some explination because it is literally unbelievable that an actual real person that exists has had the thought "I wish I heard this song more often!".
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Oct 23, 2023 19:55
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i think it's a series of tubes, op
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Oct 23, 2023 19:56
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Big Music is behind every musical decision. It is headed by a shadowy. short figure by the name of Swann, who heads Death Records.
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Oct 23, 2023 19:58
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the only bands youve ever heard of are all marketable products, calculated by a company to make money (for the company) fall out boy at this point is a brand owned by a company the record station is owned by a company the radiowaves are owned by a company its really not complicated. payola never went away.
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Oct 23, 2023 19:59
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Genesplicer posted:Big Music is behind every musical decision. It is headed by a shadowy. short figure by the name of Swann, who heads Death Records. Big Music has better taste than every indie music liker ever. We should go back to letting corporations tell us what to listen to imo.
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Oct 23, 2023 20:00
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Three Olives posted:Is there like a shadowy music cartel that decides to force this and other bad songs on us constantly? yes https://youtu.be/4AySoWKO-dI?si=S3bKQF_sSiPkmN_O
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Oct 23, 2023 20:01
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unironically looking forward to "human music" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1jWdeRKvvk
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Oct 23, 2023 20:03
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EorayMel posted:Radio works by transmitting and receiving electromagnetic waves. The radio signal is an electronic current moving back and forth very quickly. A transmitter radiates this field outward via an antenna; a receiver then picks up the field and translates it to the sounds heard through the radio. to summarize you have an electronic voice box that makes your sounds electricity, and then there is also an electronic ear that receives the sounds and barfs the noise onto you through a speaker i am very smart
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Oct 23, 2023 20:03
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GolfHole posted:payola never went away. It's this op Does anyone remember that all female rock band recently who was getting a lot of poo poo because people were saying they were essentially an astroturfed band with lots of industry connections? Not sure how much truth there was to it but I think Fasano did a video on them.
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Oct 23, 2023 20:04
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Sound is just vibrations through a medium, man.
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Oct 23, 2023 20:10
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we didnt rip a fart! it was always ripping since the rear end been smelling!
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pencilhands posted:we didnt rip a fart! Your posts and threads are worse than those of Three Olives OP
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I was at the Walmart the other day and on the radio they had the Fatboy Slim song Praise You except it was a kind of r&b cover and it was really bad. Not as bad as the Eiffel 65 Blue cover, but still. So I am going to blame it all on something called Clear channel/iheartradio. I hope this answers some of your questions sir . Have a blessed day.
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Oct 23, 2023 20:21
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you should call the cops on his band op, perhasp post about it on next door.
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Wilkins Micawber posted:I was at the Walmart the other day and on the radio they had the Fatboy Slim song Praise You except it was a kind of r&b cover and it was really bad. Not as bad as the Eiffel 65 Blue cover, but still. So I am going to blame it all on something called Clear channel/iheartradio. I hope this answers some of your questions sir . Have a blessed day. i never realized how much of this guys stuff is all god jesus stuff
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Oct 23, 2023 20:29
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I think I'd rather listen to fall out boy over imagine dragons but if those were my only two choices I'd rather go deaf
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Three Olives posted:Is there like a shadowy music cartel that decides to force this and other bad songs on us constantly? yes? it always has been to some extent but with corporate consolidation and automated playlists that's now the case more than ever.
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Oct 23, 2023 20:30
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your indignation has been noted, OP. it will be used by the cheapest algorithm to make you listen to this song more and more, because it makes you pissed off enough to press buttons during your doomscrolling. hopefully, it will make more people to have a similar reaction and make similar actions and choices.
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Oct 23, 2023 20:39
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my dad is really into radio but its the kind where he stays up till 4 in the morning to try to talk to to people broadcasting from a tiny little rock in the ocean that they've declared to be a country "for radio purposes", having a 30-second conversation about signal strength and local weather, and then waiting for those guys to send him a postcard in the mail confirming that he talked to them because of this hobby my dad knows king abdullah ii of jordan. or at least has had a 30-second conversation with him about signal strength and local weather.
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Oct 23, 2023 20:44
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The radio is making your bricks cummy
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Oct 23, 2023 20:44
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the best radio station is THE Q https://www.theq.fm/live/ i have their sticker on my coffee tumbler and motorcycle
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Oct 23, 2023 20:46
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I’m a brick and I was masoned poorly
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Earwicker posted:my dad is really into radio but its the kind where he stays up till 4 in the morning to try to talk to to people broadcasting from a tiny little rock in the ocean that they've declared to be a country "for radio purposes", having a 30-second conversation about signal strength and local weather, and then waiting for those guys to send him a postcard in the mail confirming that he talked to them HAM guys are cool IMO. A very niche but fascinating hobby. Also, potentially useful in the End Times.
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Earwicker posted:my dad is really into radio but its the kind where he stays up till 4 in the morning to try to talk to to people broadcasting from a tiny little rock in the ocean that they've declared to be a country "for radio purposes", having a 30-second conversation about signal strength and local weather, and then waiting for those guys to send him a postcard in the mail confirming that he talked to them My dad got his ham license after he retired and was really into it for a bit too. He was a career engineer and I guess if your into that kind of technical stuff it's pretty drat cool, though I think he got bored with it after a few years.
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redshirt posted:HAM guys are cool IMO. A very niche but fascinating hobby. Also, potentially useful in the End Times. And they have a giant-assed antenna attached to their house that you never mention or acknowledge unless you want to lose an hour of your day hearing all about it.
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Oct 23, 2023 21:00
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numberoneposter posted:the best radio station is THE Q this is some weak poo poo, a single Q? shameful you gotta listen to DOUBLE Q
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Oct 23, 2023 21:35
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I'm pretty sure someone can op, the real question is, will they?
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Oct 23, 2023 21:39
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I haven’t listened to the radio in probably 20 years OP.
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Three Olives posted:A band known as Fall Out Boy, which, to the best of my knowledge, has not been culturally relevant in 20 years released an "Updated" version of "We Didn't Start the Fire", which was extremely widely panned with such objective sentiment such as "bad" and "unnecessary" and whatever constituency the band had is like 40 now. It's music for people that actually go to high school reunions.
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Oct 23, 2023 21:43
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I still listen to radio. It's the only way I can get most Red Sox games.
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Payola is when a record label pays a radio station to play a song a bunch, hoping that will make people think it's popular, hoping that that will boost sales by enough to more than make up for the cost. It was made illegal in the 60s, then went through a variety of loopholes ('record company pays a 3rd party promotor, who pays the radio station' or 'record company pays a station program director instead of a DJ') followed by the FCC going 'still illegal' and issuing fines. The cynical version of Fall Out Boy getting airtime even though everyone hates it is that it is from another loophole that hasn't gotten caught yet. The less cynical version is that ClearChannel has siloed a bunch of what-gets-played decisions off to a small group of closely monitored people so that they have a good defense against accusations of payola, and at least some of those people have terrible taste and actually like Fall Out Boy and think it should get played. Nobody else can overrule them because that'd break the anti-payola wall, and ClearChannel owns all the radio stations, so it shows up everywhere.
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Fall Out Boy still releases albums and has popularity OP. Granted, they are likely past their peak level of fame but regardless of this they are still relevant in the music scene and usually release a popular single or two every couple of years in addition to their albums. Instead of asking about how radio works you should either accept that you aren't into popular music enough to ever be able to listen to the radio and therefore any education on this is completely wasted, or you should start listening to pop music so that you have baseline level understanding about 'whos who' so that you can actually get your questions answered hth edit: needed to add that their cover of that billy joel song absolutely sucks and they only got airtime for it because they are known for releasing popular singles sex excellence fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Oct 23, 2023 |
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I'm really loving sick Of Beck and 311 And Marylin Manson I wish someone would break his loving neck And what about Bush And lame-rear end Oasis? Hey, talk about pretentious Why don't they just blow England off the map? Every now and then I turn it on again But it's plain to see that The radio still sucks Every now and then I turn it on again But it's plain to see that The radio still sucks!
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Radiowaves are part of the electromagnetic spectrum. So they're like fancy light you can't perceive.
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I only listen to 70s on 7, The Bridge and Yacht Rock Radio.
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Zep Set every 10PM on 102.9, WBLM
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A Strange Aeon posted:ataris lyrics pretty funny that they ended up having a huge radio hit with a cover of a Don Henley song
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when i was a kid there was a radio station at the local community college that played all kinds of cool experimental poo poo. KFJC at foothill college. looks like they still exist!
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