{"id":49,"date":"2003-07-03T04:36:36","date_gmt":"2003-07-03T08:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2003\/07\/the_sad_state_of_music\/"},"modified":"2003-07-03T04:36:36","modified_gmt":"2003-07-03T08:36:36","slug":"the_sad_state_of_music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/03\/the_sad_state_of_music\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sad State of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI second and third the emotions of two posts about music I’ve read recently. The first (Grown Folks’ Music<\/a>) laments the music being played on radio these days. I gave up on radio long ago, but I remember loving to listen to radio (especially KDAY and KJLH) in Los Angeles when I was a kid. Now that was radio! Nowadays all the stations play the same ish over and over again. The conglomerates that own the radio stations control their play lists so tightly that it’s damn near impossible to hear any innovative music. But the advent of services like DMX Music<\/a> and internet radio filled broadcast radio’s void nicely. <\/p>\n

The second post ( I’m Supposed To Feel Sorry, Why?<\/a> ) addresses the quality of today’s music, and the ridiculous prices being charged for that music. After flipping through my new Vibe magazine<\/a> yesterday, I was ready to write exactly what’s in the ‘feel sorry’ post. I glanced at the ratings of some of the big-name releases, and they were weak, weak, weak. Big-name acts like the Neptunes<\/a> and Beyoncé<\/a> got 3 1\/2 and 3 stars (out of 5) respectively. They should be able to buy<\/i> their way to at least four stars. Out of the 16 CDs reviewed only one (one!!!<\/i>) received four stars. Yet the labels expect people to pay upwards of $15 for those CDs. Is it any wonder that people just download the 2 good songs from an album and call it a day? Perhaps if they made a better product people would buy more CDs.<\/p>\n

But seriously, I just wrote all of this to justify posting a picture of Beyoncé. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Update:<\/b> Speaking of Beyoncé, CNN just put up this article about her: The new queen of entertainment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I second and third the emotions of two posts about music I’ve read recently. The first (Grown Folks’ Music) laments the music being played on radio these days. I gave up on radio long ago, but I remember loving to listen to radio (especially KDAY and KJLH) in Los Angeles when I was a kid.… Continue reading The Sad State of Music<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":69,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/11\/rapper_eves_photo_controversy\/","url_meta":{"origin":49,"position":0},"title":"Rapper Eve’s Photo Controversy","date":"July 11, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"AllHipHop.com is reporting on the \"pictures of a nude Eve and another female in a sexual position (that) have hit the Internet\". 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