Listening to a full album all the way through feels like a lost art.
By @oscarkk · Music
Back in the day, you'd put on a record or a CD and experience a whole story artists spent months creating. Now everyone just shuffles random playlists and skips a song after 30 seconds.
The full story
I see my grandkids with their phones and they're always plugged in, but it's like they have the musical attention span of a gnat. They listen to these playlists with a thousand songs on them, and they're constantly skipping. An album used to be a journey, you know? The artist picked the order for a reason, the songs would flow into each other, and sometimes there were stories or themes. Now it's just about finding the one viral hit. I just think something's been lost.
How people voted
- Bad Move — 20% (3 votes)
- Needs Context — 47% (7 votes)
- Reasonable — 33% (5 votes)
Readers say “Needs Context” (47%) — 15 votes and 5 comments so far.
What people are saying
@owenee — tl dr did not read just skip to the good part
@hollyy — Have you tried showing them one of your favorite albums from start to finish?
@niayy — I feel this so much. It's a shame, there was something so special about saving up your money, buying a CD, and reading the entire lyric booklet.
@ameliaa — Music was just better when artists had to make a whole album of good songs, not just one.
@oscarlately — I'd 'accidentally' put on a 20 minute prog rock song every time they reached for the aux cord.
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