May 2009
13 posts
For a while, I’ve been wondering what the attraction of something being new is.
What is it that makes people in general place far more importance on something that is current, than something that is (for example) brilliant, but from ten years ago, even if it is something that people haven’t experience before? The best I can come up with is that it might be because of the excitement of...
Bonkers - Dizzee Rascal
I have one thing to say: what the f^ck?
what the what?
So I’m interested in how people find out about, well I was going to say ‘new’ but I really mean ‘new to them’ rather than ‘cutting edge crucial wicked nosebleed avant sound of the future’ music. Easiest thing to do is ask: how do I?
Now I’m a subscriber to emusic, erm, of quite longstanding… Feb 2006. They send me emails which I delete...
I first read that as “This is unfunky house”. New genre indeed.
That is completely amazing.
I should perhaps expand on the ‘getting old’ thing.
It’s generally held that getting old means you start listening to more middle-of-the-road stuff and losing touch with what is ‘new and vital’ (whether either of these are a problem on in fact a good thing, I’ll leave for another time).
It’s my feeling that this view comes from people my age, whose...
Number 1 Song In Heaven
Having just checked out what is the UK’s number 1, I find out it is a guy called “Tinchy Stryder”. I typed his name into Google - thought it was Titchy Stryder, and the autocomplete told me it was Titchy Strider.
Turns out it’s a great record, so I’ll check out Tinchy at some point, but there are a couple of problems. The first is not really an issue - the Internet...
Experiment IV
Tom’s experiment, as he rightly points out, is run with a sample of people who are clearly interested in this type of thing. As such, they actively seek out artists’ blogs and the like to find new music by these artists (amongst the variety of other ways they discover music).
It’s certainly interesting to see that traditional media does not account for where these people find...
Interesting experiment... →
Can’t confirm how scientific the results are but they match my experience of how people get to hear about music. Not from the charts, then.
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