Random music news for Monday, December 15, 2025
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Ongoing History Daily: Writing songs take time. Ask Billy Corgan.
Although Billy Corgan seems to be able to write a million songs a year, it’s actually a lot more complicated than that. Sometimes it takes years for a Pumpkins song
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This man says he “fell” butt-first onto an air hose. Yes, he claims to have “fallen” onto it perfectly. And here’s what happened. (Via Larry) Moving to music news for
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The Price is Right is celebrating 10,000 shows. How many kids spent how many sick days watching the show? Probably a few more than those who will read music news
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: The end of key changes in music?
Music and technology are always dancing around each other with sometimes unintended consequences. For example, it was once common for there to be key changes in songs. This was sometimes
Read MoreRandom music news for Monday, November 25, 2024
The predictions for 2025 have started to appear. What dog names will be popular next year? Certainly you can do better than “Billie,” “Truffle,” or–ahem–“Taylor.” Meanwhile, here’s what’s popular in
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Why does it take so many people to write a song these days?
Back in the day, we had powerful songwriting teams like Lennon and McCartney, Jagger and Richards, Tyler and Perry, all four members of U2. Songwriting was contained within the confines
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1029: Another look at the stories behind songs.
We’ve all sat listening to music and thought to ourselves “What does this song mean? What’s the singer (or the band) trying to say?” Sometimes it’s nothing, just a bunch
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Does it really take 15 people to write one song these days?
If you look at the writing credits for a lot of today’s popular music, you won’t see just one or two or three names listed. There might be nine, twelve,
Read MoreOngoing History: No, it’s not your imagination. Songs ARE getting shorter.
There is a reason why songs tend to be around three minutes long. When the 78 RPM record was introduced about 125 years ago, it could only hold three minutes
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: Music and lyrics are getting dumber
Are song lyrics getting simpler and dumber or is that just your imagination? It’s not. New research out of Germany and Austria that examined the lyrics of 335,320 song lyrics
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