SOME OF MY current favourite RELEASES...
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Music Playlists.
Recently I was having this conversation about radio and its relevance from the 20th century to the 21st and there were actually some mixed views. Whenever I have these conversations I always listen first to really solidify my viewpoint and I came to the conclusion that radio still holds the same relevance, we just don’t see it. Things like this to me always have their own demographic and I’ll prove it. On day to day streaming services like Tik Tok and YouTube, they provide content that is from these radio shows for example, when artists do freestyles and interviews? RADIO. This even links to my visit to the ultimate seminar last year as they spoke about finding artists from these platforms but also promoting artists using these platforms. Content that is shortly-consumed doesn’t allow us to get to know our favourite artists and for me as soon as I find art that I connect with I look for the nature of the creator and I would be naïve to believe that I only do that because of my stream of work. I think we all look to see how we resonate with our favourite artists once we’ve made that connection with their music. Don’t you want to feel closer to that person no matter the distance between you? This makes it sound almost like a romantic relationship but the grave and personal things artists share in their music, make it almost impossible not to want to get to know them as people and want to know what they’re like on a deeper level, as a friend even. Radio used to be used to promote political ideals - propaganda - and share what everyone should be consuming at the time, there wasn’t much variety. But now radio can be used to do those things + give unknown artists a platform, showcase the characteristics of famous people/artists, allow people to sit down and have worldly conversations and much more. It gives our community voices that they’ve chosen to represent in multiple different ways. I do understand the argument that ‘most’ people do not literally sit down and consume radio in that manner but I make the argument that that only represents the younger demographic. As I mentioned before, everything has its audience and much older people are accustomed to this and so may very well take the literal route in consuming news etc. in comparison to how we do. I do see evolution and my argument is nothing against that rather just that, it is still just as relevant as it was a couple of years ago. Is radio still relevant in the 21st century? - Miriam.
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