our attention span is getting smaller and smaller

people out here playing snippets of songs and cutting them together to make just one song ( sick mode , life is good , drake's two new singles that the video version joins them together )

albums that have 30 tracks but only have 40 minutes????

I believe even tv shows will be 10 minutes max in the future

Nah

no

nope

excellent discussion guys thanks

"Autotainment"

no

Maybe not one minute but ur right that hits will be shorter

Ur Almost right

op onto something

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You’re right about TV series being shorter. Have you heard of Quibi? I believe that will be the future of series streaming.

just searched it , f***

"Our" is a broad statement when one of the biggest forms of entertainment today is long-form podcasts

I think the biggest is gaming, too. Which is a happy medium of short and long form.

Most popular form of entertainment? Yeah probably, and the biggest ones aren't low attention span short games either

tierra wack already tried

OP the greatest album of all time is 42 minutes long

We reached a peak with album/track lengths in the 90s and they've been in steady decline ever since. I doubt we'll ever have 1 minute singles (essentially jingles) as a frequent occurrence because it constrains the song so much that certain aspects of the classic songwriting formula wouldn't be there.

I could see short 2 minute singles like Old Town Road becoming the norm, effectively pulling us back to the Motown days.

And neither is streaming, on Twitch, for example.

Yeah single player games will always strive for length and replay value

its actually 40:01

I think the culture around music consumption has changed dramatically and it is apparent in cinema.

In recent arthouse films, you rarely see a homebody protagonist listening to music or exploring a collection of music in solitude. They’re usually on the move with headphones or at a club.

OP may be right if music continues to be consumed mainly in transition: in your car, at work, at the gym.

We, on this forum, can’t relate to his argument because we consume music as a quote-unquote art form, to be enjoyed as it is not as a utility.