Tag: songs

Taylor Swift leads MTV Europe award nods

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Taylor Swift led the nominations announced Wednesday for the MTV Europe Music Awards after she caused a stir with her vengeful new persona on “Look What You Made Me Do.” The pop superstar was up for six prizes including Best Artist and Best Video at the international edition of MTV’s awards gala, which will take place in London on November 12. “Look What You Made Me Do,” the lead […]

As streaming booms, songs getting faster: study

by Shaun TANDON Agence France-Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Streaming is making it quicker not only to play music. A new study finds that pop songs themselves are getting faster as listeners’ attention spans diminish. Instrumental openings to songs have shrunk dramatically over the past three decades and, to a lesser extent, the average tempo of hit singles has been speeding up, the research found. Hubert Leveille Gauvin, a doctoral student in music […]