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Well it looks like the fans reaction worked! According to radio 1's news beat just now, Living For Love will go on the A-List next week
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Well it looks like the fans reaction worked! According to radio 1's news beat just now, Living For Love will go on the A-List next week
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I didn't hear them say on Newsbeat that it was joining their A-List but Im in work and possibly didn't hear them right.
What I did hear about the situation sounded condescending, they claimed most of the people causing the Facebook rebellion were from South America and yet again cited the fact they play music from the 72 year old Paul McCartney who features with two younger artists and from the 49 year old David Guetta who once again loses prominence due to the singer on his songs being more current |
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They just need to explain themselves a little better. If they elaborated on why they don't believe this track is relevant then they'd at least put the ageism accusation to bed (unless of course it's simply down to the artist in question being old).
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The A list?!!!!
Are you sure? if its being put straight onto the A list then the backlash must have been so big they felt they no choice but to give it that status. I'd love it if she went to number 1 off the back of all this. So many of her detractors will be fuming right about now! haha |
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The A list?!!!!
Are you sure? if its being put straight onto the A list then the backlash must have been so big they felt they no choice but to give it that status. I'd love it if she went to number 1 off the back of all this. So many of her detractors will be fuming right about now! haha |
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I'd love it if she went to number 1 off the back of all this. So many of her detractors will be fuming right about now! haha |
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Wouldn't mean anything if it did, a protest buy nothing more, not because people like the song or not....why the chart obsession anyway? if your fan it's totally irrelevant.
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is her chart Position really that important to you?
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The A list?!!!!
Are you sure? if its being put straight onto the A list then the backlash must have been so big they felt they no choice but to give it that status. I'd love it if she went to number 1 off the back of all this. So many of her detractors will be fuming right about now! haha |
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Another reason why they won't play her is perhaps R1 is worried that it will attract older people to the station. Remember it was the BBC Trust which stated that R1 had to lower the age of their average listener, maybe they're just desperate to lower the age and will happily accept the station being listened to 13 year old girls?
Enough of me trying to defend them though, even just putting her on the C list im sure people will happily accept |
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Another reason why they won't play her is perhaps R1 is worried that it will attract older people to the station. Remember it was the BBC Trust which stated that R1 had to lower the age of their average listener, maybe they're just desperate to lower the age and will happily accept the station being listened to 13 year old girls?
Enough of me trying to defend them though, even just putting her on the C list im sure people will happily accept However I love that she's acknowledged it on Facebook. She's posting newspaper articles about it now! |
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Would people buy a Madonna song out of protest if they didn't like Madonna? Could you not accept they're buying it because they think it's good?
It would stop all the "Madonna is irrelevant" statements from people who wish she'd go away. I have no idea why people focus on Madonna for criticism than any other artist. |
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Would people buy a Madonna song out of protest if they didn't like Madonna? Could you not accept they're buying it because they think it's good?
What you think all those people that brought Rage Against The Machine to stop X Factor getting no.1 all liked the song? No people will buy things if they think it is a good cause and to protest against big organisations who they feel are doing wrong. It would stop all the "Madonna is irrelevant" statements from people who wish she'd go away. I have no idea why people focus on Madonna for criticism than any other artist. |
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But it's not just radio. I've yet to see the video on any music channel.
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It would stop all the "Madonna is irrelevant" statements from people who wish she'd go away. I have no idea why people focus on Madonna for criticism than any other artist.
This is why R1 could do with clarifying their criteria a bit better. |
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And? what's the big deal if people find her irrelevant, or do you only buy the music because she is relevant...no fan should really give a toss one way or the other, you either like her music or you don't, what others think... now that is irrelevant.
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And? what's the big deal if people find her irrelevant, or do you only buy the music because she is relevant...no fan should really give a toss one way or the other, you either like her music or you don't, what others think... now that is irrelevant.
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Any artist is relevant or irrelevant to a casual listener depending on whether you like them. You are missing the point here. Madonna has been described as "irrelevant" as a factual statement by one of the UK's premier Radio stations and they have refused to play her record. No other artist has been described as irrelevant by any media outlet and as Madonna has one of the biggest fan bases in the world, it is inevitable they are going to defend her. The outcry on facebook, the worldwide attention is proof that she is still relevant and all we want is for Radio 1 to acknowledge that.
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Sense of entitlement much....seriously if R1 have decided that she is no longer relevant to their playlist then that is their right, why should they acknowledge she is relevant, they have decided she is irrelevant to that particular station...not their other stations.
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You say this yet I bet if Rebel Heart only got to number 8 you would be the first one who had something to say about it!
![]() Madonna could be no.1 or no. 500 for all I care, if I liked her new album I would buy it. |
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No other artist has been described as irrelevant by any media outlet
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Sense of entitlement much....seriously if R1 have decided that she is no longer relevant to their playlist then that is their right, why should they acknowledge she is relevant, they have decided she is irrelevant to that particular station...not their other stations.
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Is it though the right of a public funded Radio Station to refuse to play an artist.
The majority of playlisted tracks on Radio 1 will chart highly, Nick Grimshaw is not playing avant garde classical on his show. |
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Did anybody hear Newsbeat at 6pm. They once again claimed they aren't ageist because "we play Sia and she's 39."
You seriously couldn't make it up. |
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They can hardly play every artist that releases a new song. They're totally within their rights to pick and choose between tracks.
The majority of playlisted tracks on Radio 1 will chart highly, Nick Grimshaw is not playing avant garde classical on his show. |
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