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Radio Friendliness
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There are certain songs that simply don't fit the radio medium very well. They may be too long, too artsy, too controversial, too dark, too political, or simply, regardless of quality or merit, are just too risky to fit on a playlist when the Billboard top 40 is so much easier. As a consequence, some acts get exposure that others cannot. For music, Radio Friendliness is the opposite of True Art Is Incomprehensible. Of course, no matter how much Fan Dumb a niche-artist's audience possesses, sometimes, their music is just too boring or too bad to be played on the radio. See also Music Is Politics. |
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While Eminem stopped doing significant lyric rewrites for his singles after The Slim Shady LP (apart from a video version of "Without Me" which softens the homophobic slur to "you 36-year-old bald-headed Stan, blow me"), his songs usually still faced heavy edits due to the intensity of the language and violence. One significant exception is "We Made You", the lead single from Relapse and one of the only Eminem songs with little-to-no swear words in it. However, the content of the song is still utterly foul, containing references to adult breastfeeding fetish, premature ejeculation and plenty of lesbians-only homophobia, with an lurching, swung burlesque beat which Eminem raps across in an absurd, heavily-accented machine-gun rattle. For this reason, it did not get a lot of radio play. Eminem switched to a much more radio-friendly, straight-laced pop-hip-hop crossover sound after Relapse, with a lot of inspirational ballads that went into heavy rotation, and noted on "Guts Over Fear", a song in which he debates the future of his career, that he'd "rather make "Not Afraid 2" than release another "We Made You"." | |
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The songs by BTS that got the most airplay were "Mic Drop" (the remix featuring Desiigner), "Waste it on Me" (where BTS is a featured artist, and mostly in dance music stations), "Boy With Luv" (feat. Halsey), and "Make It Right" (feat. Lauv). It was only with "Dynamite", BTS' first fully English single, that BTS finally got noticeable radio support. | |
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"Optimistic" was released as a promotional radio single for Kid A seemingly just because it was the closest thing on the album to a conventional, electric-guitar-based Alternative Rock song - the radio edit is just shy of five minutes, about 20 seconds shorter than the album version thanks to ditching its Fake-Out Fade-Out. | |
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And a song you'll almost certainly hear on Classic Rock stations on Thanksgiving is "Alice's Restaurant", which runs 18:34. | |
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The album version of "Guilty Conscience", a concept song where Dr. Dre plays various characters's consciences, with their bad side played by Slim Shady, has audio drama segments that play between each of the three scenarios, in which we hear each character going about their life until the moment when they have to decide whether or not to do something awful. The radio edited version underscores these with a rather lazy hook sung by Eminem - "these voices, these voices, I hear them, and when they talk I follow, I follow, I follow, I follow...". There's even an obvious edit in the track when the hook repeats. There are also significant lyrical changes in the second verse (in which Slim attempts to persuade a young man to rape a fifteen year old girl) and some less significant ones the third verse (in which Slim attempts to persuade a man to murder his wife for cheating) (e.g. "still wanna stab her?" becomes "still wanna grab her?") | |
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Toad the Wet Sprocket "Walk On The Ocean" suffered from this due to formatting - it lacked the usual instrumental "intro" and "outro" with the singing starting immediately at the start of the track, and the track ending immediately when the lyrics stopped meaning the DJ would have to time the transitions carefully to avoid either talking/playing another song over the lyrics, or Dead Air. | |
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BTS's music has had a history of getting little to no airplay in US radio stations regardless of requests, with several reports of radio stations ignoring requests or asking for ridiculous amounts of Twitter interactions just for a play in the middle of the night, even after they were getting top 10 singles on Billboard Hot100, to the point that "ON" managed to get to #4 despite minimal radio play. Main causes? Reluctance to play non-English songs, as well as songs by acts perceived as "teen pop" (nevermind the many journalistic pieces dedicated to the diversity of the fandom or the mature themes present in BTS' music). The songs by BTS that got the most airplay were "Mic Drop" (the remix featuring Desiigner), "Waste it on Me" (where BTS is a featured artist, and mostly in dance music stations), "Boy With Luv" (feat. Halsey), and "Make It Right" (feat. Lauv). It was only with "Dynamite", BTS' first fully English single, that BTS finally got noticeable radio support. "Boy With Luv" (which debuted at #8) stands out as a song that by any other criteria would be considered BTS' radio-friendliest single, but got heavily edited for radio and only managed to stay on Top 40 stations for a few weeks. It's worth noting that songs 100% in English by other Korean groups received more radioplay despite not having charted at all on Billboard, with radio director Erik Bradley saying that K-pop songs in English made it easier to play them on radio - this, only a few months after BTS stated that they would not change their identity by making an entire English album solely to make it to US charts. This was reflected again when BTS released the Korean single "Life Goes On", which got almost non-existent radioplay compared to their English single "Dynamite" (released months prior). Both songs reached #1 on Billboard Hot 100, but "Life Goes On" did so despite the lack of the radioplay that helped "Dynamite" top the chart. |
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