Interesting... NO NEW MUSIC AT HERSHEY PARK THEME PARK.

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Papa Deuce

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I spent 2 days there..... You could have sworn you were at a cookie cutter wedding.... The music was ALL 60's ( just a little ), TONS of 70's and 80's, and just a little bit from the 90's. The only "newer" songs were a Maroon 5 song, and a Kenney Chesney song... both from about 5 years ago.

It was so obvious that newer music was avoided.... so, it made me think... "That's cuz most new music sucks... or isn't family friendly"...... What a shame that music is in such a sad state of affairs.
 
DJCraziAce said:
Yup.. and I'm sure your parents said the same thing.. ;)

I can name a few hundred family friendly songs... so what's the real reason?
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Be real.... family UNFRIENDLY stuff like Jay Z, Ludacris, LIL Jon... and that ilk did not really exist back then... and where it did, it wasn't even close to mainstream .
 
It's a baby boomer thing, Papa.

And it's everywhere. Grocery stores, convenience stores... any place where folks our age are likely to be. Hershey Park, while a great place to visit isn't exactly on your average teenager's list of hot spots.

If you'd like to hear some of the recent music feeds, go to a store in the mall that caters to teens. It's there.

I'm reminded of the late '70s and early '80s when Muzak was the big feed thing. Remember "elevator music"? It was everywhere. At the time, the local Muzak FM station was the most popular FM station in Washington DC. Kinda hard to believe, isn't it? But it was.

Muzak has evolved. :)
 
Fred Stewart said:
It's a baby boomer thing, Papa.

And it's everywhere. Grocery stores, convenience stores... any place where folks our age are likely to be. Hershey Park, while a great place to visit isn't exactly on your average teenager's list of hot spots.

If you'd like to hear some of the recent music feeds, go to a store in the mall that caters to teens. It's there.

I'm reminded of the late '70s and early '80s when Muzak was the big feed thing. Remember "elevator music"? It was everywhere. At the time, the local Muzak FM station was the most popular FM station in Washington DC. Kinda hard to believe, isn't it? But it was.

Muzak has evolved. :)
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I can't say you are wrong, but you're wrong! :sqlaugh: This place was absolutely LOADED with teens. It isn't the Hershey Park you probably remember. It has lots of wild roller coasters now...including a new 13 MILLION DOLLAR one. The water parks was packed with teens as well.... It has many more thrill rides than years past. ( in total truth, though, there were tons of wee ones in the park and the water park ) The water park, biggest in the USA, they claim, is quite a site!

It may not have quite the coolness factor as some other parks, but trust me, teens absolutely love this place. I saw BUS LOADS of teen groups.
 
DJCraziAce said:
So songs likie Cocaine by Eric Clapton and Alabama ni**** by Johnny Rebel were OK for your family?
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Johnny who? Not mainstream....

Cocaine? Well, I would need to read the exact lyrics, but I always felt that it was just relaying a story, not a proponent of using Cocaine.... I know what it says, but I think it is not REALLY telling people to use it.... And, even if so, look at his body of work.... that is one song. The guys I mentioned have made a career out of being family unfriendly....
 
Papa Deuce said:
Johnny who? Not mainstream....

Cocaine? Well, I would need to read the exact lyrics, but I always felt that it was just relaying a story, not a proponent of using Cocaine.... I know what it says, but I think it is not REALLY telling people to use it.... And, even if so, look at his body of work.... that is one song. The guys I mentioned have made a career out of being family unfriendly....
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LOL... Johnny Rebel not mainstream? LMAO. People get him confused with David Allan Coe if it helps.

And if you think Cocaine is not about coke, perhaps its time you read the lyrics.

But hey-- keep making excuses for your generation's unfriendly songs.. I'm sure I'll do the same for mine VS my kids in a few years.:sqlaugh:
 
Papa you have a good point. Even at Six Flags Great Adventure in NJ, the music thats piped in from the overhead speakers is the same older stuff. You will hear the the hip hop and top 40 at the game booths from their own set up's. In the case of Hershey it's easier to stream in family music, than to deal with the complaints from the older folks. It's not exactly catering to a hip hop crowd. I am heading to Hershey next month. UPS has a family day and they take over the whole park.
 
Couple of things...
First, nothing happens at a corporate owned theme park without first being extensively researched and market tested. Then it goes through an lengthy approval process. This is true for EVERYTHING from the color of the garbage cans to the music that you hear. Everything in a theme park is specially selected to subtly bring on certain emotions in their "guests". NOTHING is random or simply added to a theme park, however this process takes at least a year and usually much more.

Second, theme parks are designed and meant to be an escape from the everyday. An escape from today and whatever issues you may have in your life. Current music will keep you in "today"...playing popular recurrents brings you to yesterday and "remember when". Time heals all wounds and the past is always generally a happier time for most people. Theme parks want you happy, cause happy people spend money. And they want your money.
 
And third...
Come on guys, there are plenty of family friendly and radio edit hits out there. And you'll hear them all in your favorite theme park in a few years.
 
It wouldn't bother me to hear Will Smith songs at a theme park.

But the Ludacris, etc. songs? Forget it. With that much profanity, even when bleeped out, they have no place at a family theme park.

Johnny Rebel? Ace, you're going to have to come up with a better example than that. Never heard of him until this thread.

Which era's songs set a better fun atmosphere for families? Motown, 50's - 70's and disco, or profane gangsta rap, angst-ridden alternative and techno?
 
Will Smith's tracks have had a decent following with the over 40ish crowds.

Papa and Wayde are right. Theme parks tend to attract all ages. The gist is to cause visitors to come back again. It's all corporate engineering. :)

It's been a few years (well, more than a few, lol) since I visited a theme park. That was King's Dominion in Doswell, VA. They had the Moody Blues on stage for free and other concert acts in the colliseum arena for a price.

Yep, there was a PA loudspeaker everywhere one went and a contemporary pop music feed was usually played on weekends, mixed with useless, prerecorded promotional chatter about the current ride.

Even on the water rides where one would think he or she was actually out of range, there were PA loudspeakers along the course of the ride.

Just my humble opinion but I don't care for Big Brother's propaganda at every step of the way. Remember, I grew up with the old Ocean View Amusement Park in Norfolk, VA. Ocean View had rides where one could actually get away from the corporate propaganda PA system. :)
 
King's Dominion has this roller coaster called Volcano, it's been there a while but I love it. It's a suspension coaster, where you sit with the track above you and your legs dangling (similar to Batman The Ride at the Six Flags parks), with a linear induction magnet propulsion system...you know, where you go from 0 to 60mph in like 3.2 seconds. Anyway...the ride starts inside a mountain, does some high speed turns and such, and then does a loop that takes you straight up and out the top of the volcano. It's frigging awesome. It then follows around the mountain side and does, what has to be, the slowest barrel roll I've ever been on...but that's what makes it so cool.
 
Here's a picture. Like I said it's an old ride (about 9 years) and doesn't really compare to some of the newer ones in terms of speed and insane thrill. However it is one of my favorites because of the effect of blasting out of the mountain (you can see it coming out of the top, with peoples feet sticking straight up, in the pic) and that stupid, slow, tight corksrew along the side of the mountain.

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(This picture looks like a model, doesn't it? Like it's on somebodies model railroad or something. :sqconfused:)
 

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But family unfriendly songs from mainstream artists?
Jimmy Buffet - Let's Get Drunk and Screw
David Allen Coe - My Wife Ran Off With a N******
Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Cab Calloway - The Man From Harlem
Ella Fitzgerald - Wacky Dust
Cab Calloway - Reefer Man
Eric Clapton - Cocaine (It's actually about drug addiction)
Grandmaster Flash - White Lines (which originally was PRO cocaine - it was changed only so it could be released for public airplay)

Nope, nothing older that's not family friendly from mainstream artists...
 
DJCraziAce said:
Music Meister.. Thanks for proving my point. I don't think that's David Allan Coe, that's Johnny Rebel. He sang all the racist songs and everyone confused him with David Allan Coe.
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It proves NOTHING. That is one song from a library of work. There are mainstream "artists" today that you can't find ANY family friendly songs.
 
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