Music 1020

For this blog post, I decided to write about the Vox Produced Podcast Called Switched on Pop about the episode, one hundred seven. This episode is about song streaming and the effect it has had on pop music and what has come from it. They explain how artists make money from streaming platforms. The streaming system makes it so if someone makes a song that people regularly stop listening to the song its rating goes down and it is not put into a recommended playlist and will not be listened to nearly as much. This has caused song length to decrease quite significantly. They talk about how average song length has dropped from about 4:07 down to 3:30, with now there being songs as shorts as 2 minutes. They make it sound like the streaming platforms are the bad guys and that they are greedy corporations trying to syphon the money away from the artists. I wasn't a fan of this because I love what the streaming platforms have done for the industry and even the world. Also, it doesn't h...

For this blog post, I decided to write about the Vox Produced Podcast Called Switched on Pop about the episode, one hundred fifty-four. This episode is about the artist Lauv. Lauv is one of my more recent favorite artists. I really like a lot of his recent songs and he has just barely released his first full album. What I have not realized about his music until now is that a lot of them are pretty sad sounding lyrics and are actually fairly heavy topics, but are spun in such fun upbeat pop way. They go on to talk about how he wrote his song **** I'm Lonely, which is actually a good song that I like. He talks about how he wrote the beat while in an airport and on the plane on his tour. He then is asked by a viewer what his line "Its been me myself and why did you go", and he says that it was suggested by one of his friends and was meant to be an expectation subversion and calls it a mind rhyme. A mind rhyme is when like when it leads you to think a word but then replaces i...

For this blog post, I decided to write about the Vox Produced Podcast Called Switched on Pop about the episode, one hundred fifty nine. This episode is about Joe Exotic. For those of you who don't know Joe Exotic is the main character of the new Netflix TV show called Tiger King. The show is about Joe Exotic who is the owner of a private farm that primarily focuses on him and his tigers. I have not seen the show but I have heard quite a bit about it from a lot of people. I did not know that in the past Joe had been a country songwriter, and I don't think that anyone who watches his show knows this either. His song I Can't Believe is a song about an event that was a massacre at the Zanesville Zoo in Ohio. It is another private Zoo where the owner was not mentally stable and he left out all of his animals and a lot of them died and so did he. The song is about how afterwards a lot of people were outraged at how little there was to stop and/or prevent something like this from ...