Dead. Or soon to be.
Soon internet radio will be in every car, every ipod and computer / cellphone will stream an endless variety of niche consumer defined content direct to us.
No need to listen to fake American accents on New Zealand commercial radio stations; no need to have to listen to meaningless advertising surrounding the payola induced content; and most importantly no need to listen to continuous major label flogged content that has little relevance with the real world in your town or city outside corporate America.
So soon we will be hearing from the People in your neighbourhood, the new voices of music who blend Asian, African, Middle Eastern and "the Other", into their music and expression. World music is dead, the internet is recreating it as "the music" or simply "music".
So that bland American fake gansta posturing, the sugary bv's frilling to and fro all around the notes in the scale but never on them, the US angst jackass teenage rock with toilet bowl humour will soon be gone .. when you switch on the radio soon, it will be all new.
Content from the heavens, selected to fit your taste, delivered to your digital device.
Here come the People in Your Neighbourhood.
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