The 2005 Radio Scandal Was a Glorious Mess

None of that surprised me even a little bit…

1000th comment btw!

Move It Like This sucked fr

Thank you for exposing this

I was so glad when this came out because I always HATED good Charlotte

Nothing changed. Plenty money is spent to have songs featured in spotify playlists etc

Pretty sure this has been the way it is since Casey Kasem's top 40 charts. There was only three radio stations when I was younger and all you had was classic country, rock music, and what was supposed to be modern "youth" music, and all three of them played the same 20 songs over and over again. Hell, I didn't even know genre of music existed until the dial up modem days when non-radio music started coming through the phone line.

I listen to Rock 107 all the time.

finding out that good charlotte had an insane payola scheme behind them makes middle school/high school age me who hated them feel quite vindicated.

Who narrarated this? I recognize the voice but can't place it.

Doesn’t seem like it should be illegal

ive understood for decades that commercial music is separate from normal music.

This isn’t going anywhere. Real rap will never get played, pop rap will. But it’s not radio, it’s streams. The haves and the have nots is defined by way of exclusive access to this sort of general exposure. So for every real rapper like Cordae or Kota you have a thousand yachties dressed like a Gyal dem Yardie. That’s not real. The labels designed it that way for mass production. Recycled almost algorithm-generated beats engineered to sound exactly like whatever FL Studio based “rap” track that is almost uniformly similar to every hit from every region of the country and the western world writ large. And to those who aren’t into mixing/mastering/production/writing, you too can pay 5-10 grand to have all the things you’d need to be exactly like them in a month. Lo key bundled and sold as a “studio in a box”, come back to YouTube and look up “type beat” to pull up tutorials on how to make a “So-and-So Type Beat”.

The software can algorithmically change the note sequence without the human input from an actual artist. It can switch up the drums somewhat so as not to just be a 1 to 1. Yes. Today, you TOO can be Metro Boomin. Right now. You can load up a ton of his songs too, feed it into a program called “NEUTRON” to train its AI on how they are mixed, apply it to YOUR beat or full song to craft a sonic blend that would fit with the songs you trained it on. Seriously, that fast. Same with Mastering, just with the software Ozone 12 made by the same company. Or just use a web application like LandR.

If you had 10k and a weekend, you too can train your COMPUTER to spit out serviceable tracks. Many will throw shade like I’m lying, just google it. It’s possible.

As for learning to rap like these pop rappers, it’s even easier. All you need is some glue and a hammer. Eat the glue and bust yaself upside the head repeatedly. Now freestyle. As your brain swells and you suffer a stroke, you halfway there!