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Re:Read first pages of novels, and reveal the author and tit... by IneffablePigeon on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @01:05PM (#17181002)
Something similar has happened in pop music - because on Spotify (and probably other streaming services, too) a play counts if you listen to at least 30 seconds, there's been a definite shift towards songs that start off with a pared down version of the main hook, or at least start their build much more obviously early on. There's fewer long, drawn out intros (which are normally saved just for videos now).
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Re:Read first pages of novels, and reveal the author and tit... by singingboyo on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @02:01PM (#17181516)
In fairness, wasn't this also true for radio? I recall quite a number of songs where the full version (from a CD or similar) had an intro that I'd never hear on the radio.
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Re:Read first pages of novels, and reveal the author and tit... by hinkley on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @03:32PM (#17182252)
Pink Floyd, for one, released a couple of songs with very quiet intros. If you played the album versions people would think you were broadcasting dead air. Can’t have that. So just jump to the first sound over a certain decibel, and chop out anything longer than a second later in the song.

Which makes that Alannis Morisette song where she’s making a point about people not being able to handle silence pretty weird. The on air version has an “uncomfortable silence” that’s only around a second long...

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Re:Read first pages of novels, and reveal the author and tit... by AdmiralAsshat on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @05:20PM (#17183014)
People have short attention spans. Theaters had to post warnings for the last Star Wars film that it had several intentional seconds of silence, because people thought the movie must be broken[0].

https://variety.com/2017/film/news/star-wars-the-last-jedi-a...

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Re:Read first pages of novels, and reveal the author and tit... by eythian on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @07:43AM (#17186875)
I saw that warning in the projectionist area, so projectionists didn't think the system was malfunctioning, phrased similarly to the one in that article. I wonder if those theatres just put the sign in the wrong place, or thought it was supposed to be public when it wasn't.
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Re:Read first pages of novels, and reveal the author and tit... by hinkley on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @05:46PM (#17183140)
Crews-Offerman in 2020, with Offerman spearheading a War on Boredom that is just him insisting everybody should grow the fuck up and be able to sit quietly for at least 10 seconds at a time.
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Re:Read first pages of novels, and reveal the author and tit... by baud147258 on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @05:04AM (#17186191)
It's weird, I was not bothered at all, because the silence in that scene is particularly fitting.
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Re:Read first pages of novels, and reveal the author and tit... by jradd on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @05:01PM (#17182878)
TIL "radio edit" will not only edit the profanity, runtime/structure, but also the lyrics.

I heard this song today, and was surprised to hear my local state included in one of the verses:

e.g. One Republic - Good Life

  To my friends in New York, I say hello  
  To my friends in Utah "they don't know"
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Re:Read first pages of novels, and reveal the author and tit... by nathancahill on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @06:40PM (#17183409)
Ah, always wondered why the Chainsmokers had stolen the mattress from Boulder. Now I know.
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Re:Read first pages of novels, and reveal the author and tit... by codazoda on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @05:05PM (#17182913)
I had always assumed this was the case for some songs.
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Re:Read first pages of novels, and reveal the author and tit... by slededit on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @02:58PM (#17182005)
The radio edit. It's not just for bleeping out swear words.
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Re:Read first pages of novels, and reveal the author and tit... by JKCalhoun on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @02:26PM (#17181745)
"She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah..."
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