Switched on Pop 3

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 help that the money they are taking is from people who already have more than enough money and could be fine for their whole lives. They also talked about people who are cheating the system like they are terrible people. One of the examples was a band that made a silent album that they asked their fans to play while they slept which generated a lot of views. Although it is not what Spotify had envisioned, its not illegal and they are not taking anything from anyone else, their fans or other producers, but these people in this podcast were definitely very upset and jealous.