Manufactured culture
Posted on January 18, 2005
As I first saw at Slashdot, they point to an article at the Guardian about how record labels and even some musical acts are using Hit Song Service to try to predict what will be a musical hit. The service used AI technology to go through decades of musical hits and found some common factors in them. From this, a label or act can submit a song or a CD to the service and recieve a score which tells the the likelihood of a hit.
Since I don’t listen to the radio, or watch eMptyV, I probably shouldn’t care. The problem is that artists will only try to create songs with high “scores” and labels will only put out CD’s that have a high chance of success. They won’t strive for originality or take risks. Of course, if people want their tastes dictated to them, then that’s that their choice (Baa-aa-aa-aaa).
Luckily, there are alternatives.
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Yo Mike,
nice look on the sight here. Pretty original. I read some of the NY times article you are talking about. I thought it was interesting. I didn’t get to it through slasdot though. Just randomly. As far as current pop music goes, the last era of music I liked was the Seattle sound.
Asta,
Ed