Zune Social: It’s been a while since I’ve done a Vox Circle column. Considering I’ve slept poorly the past couple of nights, my brain was obviously keen on writing one since here I am, tapping away on my Chromebook at 12:42am to unburden the spongy gray matter of some ideas crawling around it like rusty automaton spiders. Lucky for you, fearless reader, that you are privy to the results. Just try not to, you know, send ninja monkeys after me or something in retaliation. But if you do send them, at least send along some peanut butter crackers.
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Are we in the slow, painful yet obvious death throes of the ‘album’? In a world where MP3 / iTunes singles charts are the barometer for what’s hot, where a catchy ringtone is almost as important as the full song, and where the recording industry is pushing to price individual tracks on a sliding scale of importance, have we reached a point where soon artists will simply release singles with more regularity that attempt to capture that elusive spark, that all-too-important feature during a scene of a prime-time drama or catchy jingle in a commercial? Why should an artist put out an album of 5 to 8 fair to middling songs, and 2 to 4 great tracks when it might be more financially lucrative to take their time and work on singles, and then later on collect them in a slow-burn Greatest Hits collection?***
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When not filling up Inside the Circle with his own brand of crazy talk, Julio maintains a blog over at http://www.julioinprogress.com.
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