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0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#276: Sep 7th 2013 at 3:47:12 PM

Third best? Hardly. The music just shamelessly rehashes the structure of "Bad Romance", and the lyrics are just meh. Moreover, it sounds boring and doesn't use the Judas them to its advantage well enough. Honestly, I liked "LoveGame" even better than it—that song may have been totally shameless, but at least it was interesting.

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ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
#277: Sep 8th 2013 at 8:40:48 AM

And I wouldn't say that there were diminishing returns. "Born This Way" was number one for six weeks, remember?

0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#278: Sep 8th 2013 at 1:55:37 PM

Hell, I think my local station played "Edge of Glory" until they could no longer hang on any moment.

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chihuahua0 Since: Jul, 2010
#279: Sep 8th 2013 at 2:39:33 PM

For my Hot AC station, it was "You and I" until "Applause" arrived.

0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#280: Sep 8th 2013 at 6:07:02 PM

Honestly, I rarely heard "You and I" much at all except within the first month it was released as a single. And even less so than most of her other singles anyway.

edited 8th Sep '13 6:07:59 PM by 0dd1

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chihuahua0 Since: Jul, 2010
#281: Sep 8th 2013 at 6:34:57 PM

Aw, well. It's all relative. Radio stations have their own preferences.

0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#282: Sep 8th 2013 at 7:36:23 PM

Very true. I doubt they play this song ever in Boston:

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johnnyfog Actual Wrestling Legend from the Zocalo Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: They can't hide forever. We've got satellites.
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#283: Sep 8th 2013 at 7:51:56 PM

For the record, "Lite FM" plays nothing but hip hop here. So I might've been out of the loop.

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chihuahua0 Since: Jul, 2010
#284: Sep 8th 2013 at 8:24:20 PM

Yeah, the key to staying in the loop is listening to various radio station. There's Top 40, Adult Comptempory, Hot AC (the combination of the two), Urban, Alternative, Country, etc. etc.

For example, my local Hot AC station and Top-40 station plays "Roar", but my Adult Contemporary station is sticking with older Katy Perry hits.

Actually, these days, I stay current by obsessively tracking music news and watching the various charts (Billboard, Shazam, Spotify, and so on).

edited 8th Sep '13 8:25:05 PM by chihuahua0

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#285: Sep 10th 2013 at 2:49:25 PM

I know my top 40 radio likes to pick an artist/song and play them nonstop until they can't anymore (for example, "Blurred Lines" right now). Curiously enough, even during Justin Bieber's heyday in 2009-2010 they never played much of his music, I think I only heard most of his songs online.

Completion oldtimeytropey from Space Since: Apr, 2012
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#286: Sep 10th 2013 at 2:58:02 PM

Bieber's crossover to the 16-29 demographic (pop radio listeners) was in 2012-2013 with his most recent album. His biggest popularity was in 2009-2010 though, but his demographic was in lock step with 10-15 year olds with no crossover and that demo doesn't listen to the radio.

There are a few pop radio stations out here in the Raleigh-Durham area.

  • 88.1 - Indie rock, indie electronica, indie pop, indie hip-hop.
  • 93.9 - Dance top-40.
  • 98.1 - Adult contemporary hits.
  • 102.3 - Rhythmic top-40
  • 105.1 Top-40

There are a few rock stations, oldies, and a MOR station. No modern rock outside of 88.1's mid-day shows, but considering that modern rock from new bands has as much commercial appeal as a jazz group it's not entirely surprising that it wouldn't exist even in as large of a market as Raleigh-Durham.

edited 10th Sep '13 3:04:17 PM by Completion

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#287: Sep 10th 2013 at 3:50:33 PM

I finally watched the video for "Applause", which was also my first time to hear the song. Good stuff, I like it better than "Roar"...haven't seen the video for that to compare.

chihuahua0 Since: Jul, 2010
#288: Sep 10th 2013 at 8:04:54 PM

My favorite radio station has a daily countdown of the top most requested songs of the day.

One song that appeared was "Best I Ever Had" by Gavin De Graw. It might be country framed as an electro-pop song, but I liked it on first listen.

Also, "Roar" was #3, "Applause" #2, and for the first time, "Royals" was #1, which I contributed two votes too.

"Brave" was also #1 the other day, except it dropped to #10 today. The request lines are more flexible. "Blurred Lines" has been zoned out.

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#289: Sep 11th 2013 at 5:30:25 AM

[up] Ugh..."Brave" irritates me. I like it except for that actual line in the chorus; the way she holds that high note through that line grates on my nerves.

0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#290: Sep 11th 2013 at 6:32:27 AM

Who does "Brave" again? *has never heard it*

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#291: Sep 11th 2013 at 7:10:07 AM

[up]I think it was Pixar or something.

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chihuahua0 Since: Jul, 2010
#292: Sep 11th 2013 at 7:15:10 AM

[up] "Brave", not Brave.

[up][up] Sara Bareilles. She also sang "Love Song" (the song attacking her label) and "King of Anything".

0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#293: Sep 11th 2013 at 9:55:56 AM

Well, yes, I know she does those two songs, but thanks for the clarification anyway tongue

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chihuahua0 Since: Jul, 2010
#294: Sep 11th 2013 at 12:09:04 PM

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5687387/katy-perrys-roar-rules-hot-100-for-second-week-lorde-reaches-top-3

"Roar" and "Blurred Lines" stay stable. "Royals" rises to #3. "Hold On, We're Going Home" by Drake and "Safe and Sound" bump "Radioactive" and "We Can't Stop" from the Top 10. "Wrecking Ball" by Miley Cyrus is expected to enter Top 10 next week because of its You Tube video.

This is exciting.

But "Applause" continues to flounder. I'm hoping that single #2 will perform better.

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#295: Sep 11th 2013 at 12:15:42 PM

While not necessarily a bad song, I think I would be okay with never hearing "Radioactive" again.

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#296: Sep 11th 2013 at 12:57:43 PM

[up] "Radioactive", to me, is a song that suffers from ProTools Chorus Syndrome, in that it sounds like the vocals on the choruses were sung once and then copy-pasted in Pro Tools for each repeat. That annoys me tremendously...it's slowly but surely ruining AIC's The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here for the same reason.

Completion oldtimeytropey from Space Since: Apr, 2012
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#297: Sep 11th 2013 at 4:56:11 PM

Eminem has a new single. Once again, like every single since his album Encore, he shows to the world that he should have disappeared in 2003 never to make music again.

He's so hokey, corny, and cliche at this point. He's technically skilled but all creativity has been sapped from him. He's the rapper dads listen to.

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#298: Sep 11th 2013 at 6:43:05 PM

There is such a thing as being a product of your time.

Can Eminem reinvent himself without losing all of his identifiers? Can he finally get a divorce from his hubby Dre and try something risky? Doubt it. So instead he will just keep plodding on.

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chihuahua0 Since: Jul, 2010
#299: Sep 11th 2013 at 6:46:31 PM

Regardless, he did clinch Top 10, so there's plenty of interest, but it's an uphill battle.

0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#300: Sep 12th 2013 at 7:18:28 AM

If it's" Berzerk", I heard of it a fewweeks ago but haven't yet bothered to listen to it. I've heard some critical praise about it, though, calling it a return to form with Slim Shady and all that.

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