Especially Cindi, your revelation upon listening to Prince after he died was pretty awesome.
Thanks. I'm still really mad about this. When Prince was alive the only songs you'd hear from him on the radio in my town was Little Red Corvette and Kiss. I'm talking about black radio stations. Then he dies. Last month they were playing a lot of my favorite Prince songs they never, ever played on the radio when he was alive. I'm kind of bitter about it.
That's pretty universal to big artists, though. Go to any classic rock station and all the big bands only have 2-4 songs played. Even stations that do the hour of Zepplin usually do at least 2-3 of the same songs every night. Outside of specific shows dedicated to them, radio isn't and has never been about deep cuts.
It feels like other big artists had more variety. IDK.
Make a list of 20 big rock/pop stars and you'll find no more than 5 of their top songs (and that's if they were around for decades) in rotation.
Beatles: Come Together, Revolution, Yesterday, Hey Jude, Let It Be
Rolling Stones: Beast of Burden, Start Me Up, Angie, Satisfaction, Gimme Shelter
Led Zepplin: Stairway, Black Dog, Rock and Roll, Immigrant Song, Kashmir
Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit, Come As You Are, Lithium, All Apologies
Aerosmith: Dream On, Sweet Emotion, Walk This Way, sometimes a 90s hit
Madonna: Like A Virgin is really the only one I ever hear on the radio
And so on and so forth. There is only so much time in a day, most people just want to hear snippets of the hits on their way to or from work/school.
how come making an analogy to apartheid is awful/evil/wrong/disgusting/gross/problematic etc. but when an analogy is made to the holocaust no one bats an eye?
also why is it that every time slavery is brought up, the only thing people focus on is the atlantic slave trade? as if no other groups of people were ever enslaved..
Here's a better question: why don't we treat the slave trade like the Holocaust? Why isn't it discussed in full detail? Why is it always treated with kid gloves? When I was in middle school, we covered the holocaust every grade year but barely went into slavery and its social impact. Instead, people justify slavery for various reasons or like you, say,"slavery isn't special." When the Atlantic Slave Trade was a particularly far more extreme and cruel manner of slavery.
Well, one of them happened somewhere else by historically canonized evil people, and the other happened at home and no one wants to talk about the terrible things someone in the family did. Similar reason why the Trail of Tears isn't something gone into depth about outside of classes specifically dedicated to that period only.
