Sharing Music (and Cookies) - The Sweet Spot

Remember 8-track? A. O. Scott and David Carr talk about the various ways we find, and listen to, our favorite tunes — like "Gangnam Style."

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[PungaDeGunoi]

david carr is a media journalist 

[cruhnk]

This is more of a personal opinion rather than discussing why or how people can adapt openly to new generation of music.

This generation seem to be about fast beats per second than slower beats per second back then. However, just because PSY's songs are in Korean, people seem to have a difficult time accepting it.

What if it was in English instead, and have fast beats per second that makes it like a dance music? Would it make it to the news? Nope.

[mp3talon]

shite

[herndog2usmc]

the times sucks ass at reporting real news....there should be way more coverage of more important issues like the hsbc big bank scandal, pvt bradley manning, illegal wars, ndaa....and you call yourself "journalists" ...you "journalists" are supposed to be on the govts ass so they are held in check...thats a major reason there is so much corruption in govt these days

[akagodofheaven]

last part made me rotfl

[cageybee777]

well, isn't it great that we no longer have to buy an album for $15-20 just because of 1 song? they no longer have an option of pushing crap to us that we don't like. they actually have to be creative now to really make money. good for us.

[quincyjones75]

Wow it's amazing that these guys guys are this ignorant to how advanced not only the infrastructure of sharing music has become, but also online music criticism and discussion.