The Nerdwriter Conquers the Internet, Plus Kelefa Sanneh on Country Radio
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Country Music - I'm Driving Circles
The arbiter of what a great song is in the popular commercial sense is the audience. Record companies have whole departments that are devoted, as has been true for half a century, to getting songs on to the radio. The labels do research and play snippets of songs and say, do you like this? Do you like that? And they're really trying to figure out if we play this song or people going to change the dial,. Or keep listening. On country radio right now, you can listen to 75 hundred o b o by tim m graw - it's one of two songs currently on country radio with the same exact plot.
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