Dizzee Racal ranting at Radio 1
Radio 1 has played him all his career and now just because they didnt playlist his frankly awful new tune he has gone on a tirade of abuse at the station. My opinion is he is biting off the hand that has fed him, Radio 1 is one of if not the biggest station in the UK and he has just alienated himself. He sold out and then expects to still get airplay when he brings out something a tad different. Whats this guys problem? I find him irritating and think his ego has let him down.
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But now... he's churning out absolute drivel with no soul, but the public seem to have deserted him as his new album barely managed 2 weeks in the top 40! So it's no wonder really that this has happened. Honestly, R1 have given him far more support than many other acts and have only 'snubbed' 1 song, so I think he needs to get a grip!
what a strange thing to say....Radio 1 should play every song that is released ?? there are 100's of songs released every week ...you do know that there are a limited number of minuets in the day don't you ?
It's hardly rocket science
This is the reason I don't listen to Radio 1, Capital or any mainstream radio station. I can't stand the snobbery.
Thinking Dizzee Rascals latest output isnt fit for broadcast isnt snobbery, its common sense.
His latest stuff is complete and utter tripe.
Tru dat.
I don't see what they've done wrong though. They can't playlist every song by every artist. Dizzee's new single, Love This Town, is really awful. I love Dizzee, but it's the worst single of his career, I wouldn't play it if I were a DJ. I'm sure Radio 1 were still planning to playlist any future singles of his, if they were a bit more interesting.
Most artists out there only get their singles playlisted by Radio 1 every now and then. Dizzee has been lucky to be one of the select few to get every single he released playlisted for years. He should be the last person complaining about Radio 1 imo.
I'm not referring to Dizzee Rascal as I'm not really a fan and I haven't heard his latest stuff, I'm just referring to mainstream radio in general. Look at R1's attitude towards Britney Spears (who I'm a fan of). Have they even playlisted Work Bitch or Perfume? Capital is even worse. They seem to play the same 20 songs on a loop. Remember when they snubbed Alexandra Burke?
I don't know if they do this still but I know they used to - a selection of listeners are asked to choose their five favourite songs from the playlist and that data is compiled to decide what songs remain playlisted and which ones do not - this is another way of gauging what is popular with listeners rather than their playlist simply being dictated by chart position - and often explains why songs such as 'lived a lie' by You me and six and 'atlas' by Coldplay remain playlisted even though they haven't performed extremely well commercially.
Don't get me wrong i don't agree with every decision they make, but I think radio one gets a lot of grief quite unfairly.
Maybe the reason "Work Bitch" wasn't playlisted was because it's called "Work Bitch"? Bitch may be a radio friendly term in the US, but it isn't over here...
I really don't think you can leave it to the public to decide what is good music....look at the charts!
Radio 1 snubbed her as well. One of their controllers actually said that they would not play her as she "doesn't fit in with the image of our station" or something ridiculous like that.
When she launched her second single, they played it once, then made fun of it on air, letting callers slag it off live on air while the fans calling in weren't put on air. They tried a similar tactic again when she launched Start Without You. Aled Jones tweeted that the song was rubbish and that it would never get to #1, and retweeted loads and loads of negative tweets about it, constantly saying it would flop. Radio 1 also never played the song.
However, they were left red faced when it was a 2 week #1 blocking Katy's Teenage Dream from the top spot. As for Capital, they supported her until one of their head controllers started insulting her on Twitter. Quite bizarre behaviour really.
But Radio 1 as a public funded station should not be engaging in that kind of behaviour.
Exactly!:D
Dizzee Rascal appears to be moaning that they're refusing to play his new single, possibly because of the implied f word in the chorus (which, If he was that bothered, he could probably just edit out anyway).
This is probably going to come back and bite him on the arse, as they seem to be the only major station that plays his music...
That's not true at all. I heard it 4 times on Radio 1 the week it went to #1 alone (granted, the chart shows pushed the total up). Infact, the week of Start Without You's release, Alexandra went for an interview at Radio 1 (that was one of the times they played the song).
There's archives of when Radio 1 play songs, so I can dig out some of the times they played Start Without You if you don't believe me.
This is one of the things about Radio 1 that people don't understand. Just because they don't playlist a song, it doesn't mean they never play it.
You can't say bitch on the radio here, only on TV. When that song is played the chorus says "you better work, work"
But then what is radio for? You can't leave it solely to DJs or the audience strays because if you aren't playing what people want to hear, then you have no audience. For example, a lot of people at power 105(station in NY) dislike Drake, but they play his music all the time because that is what the people like.
Every morning DJ Envy dedicates a section of their show to a people's choice mix where he gives out gidelines like tweet him your favorite dipset track, or your fave Halloween song, etc and he will play it during the people's choice mix. He did a sick old school RnB mix not that long ago that was tweeted by the people and was fantastic.