I’m listening right now to Gojira’s Flying Whales, this song is 07:46. Previously I listened to the Art of Dying which was 09:54. That got me thinking about this discrepancy between some metal songs and the pop available on the radio. Why is everything around 3 minutes long?
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Combination of economics, attention span of pop music fans, and technology.
Short songs make sense in a pay per play system. More plays =more money. The same idea applies to movies in the movie theater.
The attention span of kids is small. Pop music is short to accomodate that.
Old records have a limited amount of play time. shorter songs allowed for more songs per record or smaller records.
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