[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by PugMom

no way! RAP?? what song was it?

Old School Rap? Some really good stuff back then...

Remember, as time marches on, the likes and dislikes of people in TV changes. They're adding in the music the "Newer Villagers" grew up on...

That's why Katie Bell's closed. The newer residents had no interest in an "old fashioned" dance hall...

Even if it was still open, I doubt I'd ever step foot inside. The only constant, is change...

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Rap???? They either lost their playlist or lost their minds.

Disco, Jackson---OK, after all those that are 62 today were 15 in 1975 and that was their music. I grew up with the Beach Boys, Four Seasons and Beetles, but there are those older Villagers who grew up with The Platters and Bill Haley's Comets. None of us grew up with rap, although most of us would throw up to it

BZZZT! Rap started in the early 70's...

Those who are 55-56 (the minimum age to live inTV), were 15 in 1982-3... Rap was HUGE by then...

Run DMC's "Walk This Way" (which resurrected Aerosmith's career) came out in 1986 and was a MASSIVE hit on MTV...

[dewilson58]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

it brought back bad memories of the Super Bowl halftime show.

[Laker14]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

The Villages radio station used to be something we totally enjoyed. We would look forward to coming to our Villages home and be able to hear the great music we grew up listening to. Much of the music was stuff we couldn’t find on other stations. Over the years the music selection has steadily gone downhill, as more crap like Michael Jackson and Disco became part of the playlist. Despite that, we have remained loyal and continued to listen to the station. Today at approximately 1:44 PM that all changed. Something happened that I never expected from the Villages radio station, they played RAP. For us, that’s a game changer, it brought back bad memories of the Super Bowl halftime show. We refuse to listen to a station that broadcasts noise pollution instead of music. By by WVLG!

Your life changed at 1:44 PM today. At least you'll always remember where you were, and what you were doing at 1.44 PM, April 22, 2022.
Just like I will always remember where I was at 1:30 PM EST, November 22, 1963, and where I was at 8:14 AM, Septemeber 11, 2001.
Momentous events like that just stick in your memory, never to be forgotten.

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Rap???? They either lost their playlist or lost their minds.

Disco, Jackson---OK, after all those that are 62 today were 15 in 1975 and that was their music. I grew up with the Beach Boys, Four Seasons and Beetles, but there are those older Villagers who grew up with The Platters and Bill Haley's Comets. None of us grew up with rap, although most of us would throw up to it

I grew up with Sinatra.....not because I was young enough to enjoy his music in his prime but my mother played nothing but Sinatra and Louis Prima and the Witnesses in our house when I was growing up. To this day, I'm a huge Sinatra fan, and LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Louis Prima and Keeley Smith music. I was born too late but so glad my Mom played that music on our stereophonic record player. Thank you, Mom!

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by New Englander

Rap is Crap

Agree. Rap is not my preferred music to listen to. I actually love Broadway tunes too in addition to Sinatra and Louis Prima.

[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by PugMom

no way! RAP?? what song was it?

I have no idea what the noise pollution was called, but since it was RAP it doesn’t deserve to be called a song! When it was over the DJ reluctantly said, I kind of liked that, but I realize many people hate that stuff. He was almost apologetic for polluting the airwaves. I guess the playlist is not determined by the DJ. WVLG is no longer on our radios pre-set stations.

[Bilyclub]

Originally Posted by New Englander

Rap is Crap

If the station that has a slogan of : " No Rap, No Crap", would have a decent FM signal I would abandon WVLG.

[vintageogauge]

I'm sure there are a lot of residents over 55 that like hearing the early rap songs, I still remember them and I'm 75. One in particular, Crack Killed Apple Jack, was sending a message that death lived in the crack house, a message that still should be sent today and I wish todays youth would listen to that song. Also, I believe that Hip Hop, that would include rap, brings in more money today than any other type of music so we might as well get used to hearing it and I occasionally listen to some of the hip hop stations. Although I was a product of the 50's and early 60's, I also enjoy music of the 70's and early 80's including disco and Michael Jackson too, set aside all the things he was accused of, he was one hell of an entertainer. One final thought, if you were to get a sirius XM radio and subscribe you can listen to any era you want 24 hours a day with no commercials.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Rap???? They either lost their playlist or lost their minds.

Disco, Jackson---OK, after all those that are 62 today were 15 in 1975 and that was their music. I grew up with the Beach Boys, Four Seasons and Beetles, but there are those older Villagers who grew up with The Platters and Bill Haley's Comets. None of us grew up with rap, although most of us would throw up to it

The song Rapper's Delight hit the airwaves in 1979. It was one of the most popular disco songs on the radio and in clubs. It is now an oldie and most modern rappers have never heard of it, even though it's one of the biggest influences that led the way for the rap they have now.

I am not a rap fan, at all. Didn't like it then either, and I was at the discos competing in Latin Hustle contests at the time. Rapper's Delight at least had a good danceable beat and wasn't just a subwoofer blow-out bass.

The song (by the Sugar Hill Gang) was actually considered part of the Funk genre.

Just because you don't like the music of the younger generation, doesn't mean the younger generation doesn't have a say in what gets played on the local radio. Especially when your generation is dying off, and being replaced by theirs.

I'm inbetween generations, born in the last years of the Boomer generation. Plus working in retail for the bulk of the last 40 years, I spent more time with people in their 20's and 30's than I did with my own age, even when I turned 50. So I spent my adulthood listening to their music.

I also grew up with an appreciation for opera and classical music. But I definitely would not want to hear Der Meistersinger or Stravinsky on the local radio.

[Laker14]

there might be some people who like it more than they like some of the old songs. Do the older Villagers have some special rights that the newer Villagers don't have when it comes to determining what music will be played, and whose tastes will be catered to?
I was swimming at Miona the other night and the speakers were blasting Barry Manilow. I hate Barry Manilow. But it was one song.
I managed to get over it.

[blueash]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Rap???? They either lost their playlist or lost their minds.

Disco, Jackson---OK, after all those that are 62 today were 15 in 1975 and that was their music. I grew up with the Beach Boys, Four Seasons and Beetles, but there are those older Villagers who grew up with The Platters and Bill Haley's Comets. None of us grew up with rap, although most of us would throw up to it

Another completely negative and offensive comments about Black culture? Rap has been the predominant popular musical genre for more years than rock and roll topped the charts. You don't have to like rap or opera but you can be certain there are lots of people who enjoy it and have taken the little bit of time and effort to understand it and appreciate it as the dominant musical art form in America now.

And no, most of us would not throw up at it.

[Laker14]

Originally Posted by blueash

Another completely negative and offensive comments about Black culture? Rap has been the predominant popular musical genre for more years than rock and roll topped the charts. You don't have to like rap or opera but you can be certain there are lots of people who enjoy it and have taken the little bit of time and effort to understand it and appreciate it as the dominant musical art form in America now.

And no, most of us would not throw up at it.

Yep. You nailed it. The views of the original post express exactly the resistance to cultural diversity that the typical documentary about the Villages will convey. You know the documentaries I'm talking about, right? The ones that treat us so unfairly.

[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by blueash

Another completely negative and offensive comments about Black culture? Rap has been the predominant popular musical genre for more years than rock and roll topped the charts. You don't have to like rap or opera but you can be certain there are lots of people who enjoy it and have taken the little bit of time and effort to understand it and appreciate it as the dominant musical art form in America now.

And no, most of us would not throw up at it.

WTF, RAP is a dominant musical art form? That is quite possibly the most stupid thing I have ever herd. In fact, it’s just as stupid as RAP itself.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by jdulej

It's the younger old people in the Villages that spend money here. The old timer who orders water with lemon to go with his cheese sandwich and sits at the table for 2 hours and doesn't leave a tip are not WVLGs target audience.

Funny how you see this but we never have.