I'm grateful for Live365, which powers the station, but I wish they would
get rid of the "you rate the songs" feature. It's unnecessary—I don't
believe in rating songs—and the one- to five-star ratings the Live365
users give to several of the tracks on my "Assorted Fistful" playlist
are idiotic.
Every time I go to
Studio365's Playlist Analyzer section to edit mp3s on my playlist, I have
to put up with seeing some of these inane ratings, which you'll see below.
I don't take these customers' ratings seriously at all—which is why
I don't let them dictate which songs will go on the "Assorted Fistful"
playlist—but they're annoying to see. (I want to bitchslap whoever
gave the classic "Shifting Gears" cue from Bullitt one and a half
star.)
The customers who
are giving these ratings are probably mostly 14-year-old mouth-breathing
gamer fanboy types whose limited tastes in music suck. Several of the
tracks that these raters tend to hate on are jazzy, funky, hip-hop-related
or ethnic (read: black or Indian). However, the theme from Shaft
consistently gets high marks.
If I started selecting
tracks that only cater to what the raters like, I would despise my own
station. If we started tweaking and reshooting movies to cater to the
tastes of 14-year-old test screening... oh, wait a minute, that is happening
already. Shit.
One and a half stars?! I know many in my generation look at Bullitt and its much-heralded car chase and say, "So f**kin' what?" But this rating is ridiculous. Schifrin's Bullitt score ranks up there with Jerry Goldsmith's 30-minute Patton score as one of the greatest sparingly used film scores. (And I'll take the laconic, documentary-like
Bullitt over any Jerry Bruckheimer action movie any day of the week, although I did like Crimson Tide, Enemy of the State and parts of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.)
Speaking of Patton...
AAUGH!
One of Blanchard's most powerful cues gets only two stars? That's the crack talking, folks.
Where's the other half of that third star?
Not all of the raters are morons. Cool.
What's up with these raters' tastes in comedy? They've been giving the TV Funhouse and
Fear of a Black Hat tracks low marks too. The only comedic song they seem to like is
the Monty Python and the Holy Grail "Camelot" number. Who's rating these tracks? The
three Monty Python-loving nerds from the Simpsons' "Homer Goes to College" ep? I like
the "Camelot" song too, but if that's the only comedic song on the playlist that you find to
be funny, you're pathetic, pal.
I guess these raters are really white.
"We're
white, we're white, we're really, really white..."
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