{"id":117,"date":"2005-04-15T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-15T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/?p=117"},"modified":"2005-04-15T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-15T14:23:00","slug":"117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/117\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The musical tastes of teenagers have been driving popular music for so long, I&#8217;m very interested to see what will happen in the UK now that downloads will be included in the Top 40. The BBC&#8217;s report: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/music\/4433071.stm\">How downloads will change the chart<\/a> is an interesting starting point, though there have been <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/music\/4443377.stm\">complaints made<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A song is not good because it sells; a movie is not good because it has a big opening weekend. Most pop culture exists to make money, not art. Simply: a product has been packaged and marketed towards those with discretionary incomes but little discretion. Fish in a barrel, fingers in my ears. Go <a href=\"http:\/\/triplej.abc.net.au\/\">Triple J<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The musical tastes of teenagers have been driving popular music for so long, I&#8217;m very interested to see what will happen in the UK now that downloads will be included in the Top 40. The BBC&#8217;s report: How downloads will change the chart is an interesting starting point, though there have been complaints made. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/117\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}