buzzsaw wrote:

This isn't grass roots, this is spamming (in my opinion to please a select few).  Grass roots would be getting people interested, not faking people's interest.

I just can't imagine why you care about it at all.

Buzz, you are being a bit of an ass....you made your point 20 posts ago.

tejastech08 wrote:

buzzsaw wrote:

Wow, that was quick.  I figured it would get full play for a day at least...

What's even funnier is that was the PREMIERE of it on that particular station. They didn't even play the full version of it ONE time.

I'm surprised any radio station bothered with that bit at all to be honest. It's fine as the opening to the album, it works great, but as part of the single it was always going to be cut by the radio. Unless you're somewhere with perfect reception and no background noise the whole chinese talking bit just sounds like dead air. If the track plays in your car you won't hear anything until those drum beats. Makes sense to cut it out imo.

bigbri wrote:

I'm just going to request my local stations play it because I want to hear it in my car eventually. Sorry, not gonna call and email others. Don't have time.

That's mostly what I'm doing too. I haven't actually heard this song on the radio yet (I've managed to miss it every time WRIF played it so far today) so I'm gonna keep requesting it via phone until I do.

buzzsaw wrote:

Congrats!  Following up weak with weak and hypocritical isn't an easy thing to do...most people would have let it go at weak.

You state your opinion (your "proof") as though it's fact, then get on me for it?  Again, weak.  Also hypocritical.   There's no point in wasting time on you when you put nothing into it yourself.  Come back with something credible and well thought out and I'll consider actually responding, otherwise, consider this discussion over.

Ok, here's how it works. The record label isn't dumb. They're not going to put poor marketing behind a multi-million dollar project and release a single that will turn people off to the album. That's what a single is: A marketing strategy to sell their product- the album. When the album is completed and they're preparing the  release, they put together a 'listening panel'. The panel listens to the songs and vote on what they think is best, or what they would like to hear. The panel is made up of different sexes, ethnicities, etc. The idea is to get the opinion of the general public, not just the diehards and internet nerds (us.) This is how they arrive at what gets released as a single. Hence, CD won, and as I have previously stated, it has what a single needs. Later on in this thread you said that what you were saying was all your opinion. I called you out because in your original post, nowhere was there a "in my opinion", or "I think..". No, you said that releasing this as a single was going to make the album tank, that this was the next SBQM. You never stated that was just your opinion, you actually said it very matter of factly.