Recently while digging through old cds and putting them on my mp3 player I came across a plethora of music. As I played many of the files I noticed there were songs I was skipping. I never thought about it before, so I decided to see how far spreading it actually is for me.
I clicked through Bowie albums, Ramones albums, Queen albums are figured out pretty quickly. It boiled down to simply songs I want to hear or ones I was burned out on. Songs that I haven't heard in a while or a long time were the most alluring, while the songs that were the most commercially popular I was tired of and overexposed to.
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
The Ramones - I wanna be sedated
David Bowie - Changes
The Rolling Stones - Satisfaction
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
The Beatles - She loves you
The Monkees - Last train to Clarkesville
The Who - My Generation
Elton John - Tiny dancer
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free bird
R.E.M. - Losing my religion
Van Morrison - Brown eyed girl
The weird thing is, I feel guilty for passing over these songs. Most of them are great and even legendary, but I've realized I've simply been overexposed due to commercials. Although my eyes only roll when I hear The Who in a car commercial or Blondie in a household product advertisement; it would be refreshing to hear their lessor played and more interesting songs.
After doing some research I found out that it is mostly "millennials" who are the ones to skip over songs. From "Science Has Some Comforting News for People Who Skip Tracks Constantly": According to Lamere's research, there's a 25% chance listeners will hit skip within 5 seconds. The likelihood listeners will skip climbs steadily as a song progresses. There's only a 48.6% chance they'll make it to the final cadence."
Do you skip certain songs and why?
I clicked through Bowie albums, Ramones albums, Queen albums are figured out pretty quickly. It boiled down to simply songs I want to hear or ones I was burned out on. Songs that I haven't heard in a while or a long time were the most alluring, while the songs that were the most commercially popular I was tired of and overexposed to.
Queen - Bohemian RhapsodyThe Ramones - I wanna be sedated
David Bowie - Changes
The Rolling Stones - Satisfaction
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
The Beatles - She loves you
The Monkees - Last train to Clarkesville
The Who - My Generation
Elton John - Tiny dancer
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free bird
R.E.M. - Losing my religion
Van Morrison - Brown eyed girl
The weird thing is, I feel guilty for passing over these songs. Most of them are great and even legendary, but I've realized I've simply been overexposed due to commercials. Although my eyes only roll when I hear The Who in a car commercial or Blondie in a household product advertisement; it would be refreshing to hear their lessor played and more interesting songs.
After doing some research I found out that it is mostly "millennials" who are the ones to skip over songs. From "Science Has Some Comforting News for People Who Skip Tracks Constantly": According to Lamere's research, there's a 25% chance listeners will hit skip within 5 seconds. The likelihood listeners will skip climbs steadily as a song progresses. There's only a 48.6% chance they'll make it to the final cadence."
Do you skip certain songs and why?
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