A new study finds that the music in pop songs is getting faster and blames listeners’ diminishing attention spans.
Sounds over-exaggerated to me… although I did skip 3 Pandora songs while reading that headline.
A new study finds that the music in pop songs is getting faster and blames listeners’ diminishing attention spans.
Sounds over-exaggerated to me… although I did skip 3 Pandora songs while reading that headline.
Is it just me or in the last six months has Pandora been throwing a lot of junk into rotation?
The way Pandora selects songs seems ripe for abuse by bots. You set up bots to play popular tunes and then play tunes you want to push. The pushed tunes then become increasingly associated with popular tunes. It takes surprisingly little make one particular song stand out especially if the stats are time-sensitive which, this being the music biz, they almost certainly are.
Or maybe somebody at Pandora is getting paid by record companies – not unprecedented and certainly not beneath record execs (what is?).
The new Imelda May album is excellent – best since “Love Tattoo”. Contrary to this “study” she’s slowed the tempo from her previous work.
I would have expected you to be more of a Hot Tuna fan.
heh – good one
The way Pandora selects songs seems ripe for abuse by bots. You set up bots to play popular tunes and then play tunes you want to push. The pushed tunes then become increasingly associated with popular tunes. It takes surprisingly little make one particular song stand out especially if the stats are time-sensitive which, this being the music biz, they almost certainly are.
Or maybe somebody at Pandora is getting paid by record companies – not unprecedented and certainly not beneath record execs (what is?).
….blames listeners’ diminishing attention spans
That ain’t all that’s diminishing.