Arroe Unplugged Page Two Thousand Three Hundred Twenty Vocal De Frag

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Creativity is an addiction unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged, hey, Saro,
And this is vocal dfrag. Vocal dfragging is asking yourself
the questions and questioning the answers. What we do on
this episode is not real vocal defragging because really, when

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you vocal dfrag, it's between you and you. This right
here is a learning tool on how you can start
learning how to ask yourself those questions and then question
those answers, those deep, dark little things that get inside
your head and heart, that feel like the weight of
the world on your shoulders and you can't figure out
where it came from and what you're going to do

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with it. Just ask the questions and question the answers.
This is vocal dfrag. So I want to cover a
subject here, and I don't know if it's because as
we get older, we tend to go, you know what,
the good old days. We just kind of put our
focus on the good old days. I've been told consistently
that at the age of sixty one, I lived the

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real days of rock and roll, and as Gene Simmons
would say, rock music is dead. Okay, that's one of
the things. The other one is radio people saying, man,
you lived the good old days, because radio isn't like
that today. See little things like that, it makes me wonder,
have you given yourself permission to stop growing? Because I'm

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blessed with the opportunity to talk with a lot of
new age rock stars, and for someone to tell me
that rock music is dead is somebody who isn't listening
to new music. It's somebody who is stuck in the
time period of them being a teen or maybe in
their mid twenties and thirties. But the music is not dead.

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Rock music is very much alive. I talk with the
musicians and the songwriters from California to New York to Chicago,
and I vibe with them and we break down the music,
just like I did with members of Kiss and with
Chicago and with Sticks and Cheap Trick. But to say
that it's dead sends out the signal of you have

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stopped growing. The music has evolved, and so that's why
I do everything humanly possible to try to invite people
to discover new music. I use Alexa as a great
tool where I'll hear about an artist and she'll play
that full album for me. So when you find yourself

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in that position of yeah, it's not the way that
it used to be, maybe you're the one that is
not the way that it used to be. And it's
so easy to break free of if you allow yourself
to plant your ears in a collection of new music. Now,
what about that radio thing. First of all, I am

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all out radio all the way, one hundred percent. I
do believe that radio is still in its heyday. It's
just evolved with the way that the industry set itself up.
You know, we were once clear channel radio and then
all of a sudden, Robert Pittman came along and he said, Hey,
we've got this idea. We're going to call it iHeartRadio,

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and it's going to be on an app. We started
seeing things like Spotify, Pandora, all these streaming outlets, and
instead of heading into a record store such as Tower
or music Land, or even Walmart or Best Buy, what
happened is is that we all started getting everything on
the streaming outlets. So receiving music in how you get
your music has changed. It has evolved, and yes, it

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has affected radio as we know it on the terrestrial dial.
I remember doing movie promotions and one of the things
that they had to do with this outdoor drive in
was to if you wanted to hear the movie, you
had to listen to it through your radio and more people.
What they did was amazing. They would point to their smartphone.
I was like, no, no, that's not your radio. Your radio

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is in the dashboard of your car. And it was
new to them to be able to do that, and
there were a lot of dead batteries. But back to
radio changing, it's evolved. It's grown in ways that yeah,
we're not familiar with, and we explore and it's not
an instant, overnight success. And sometimes it involves great morning
shows and afternoon drive shows, and in most cases it

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can't involve music because of copyright infringement. So you've got
to evolve with it. And I love this idea that
these talent on the air are given the opportunity to
do more than just blog, but they're actually doing their
vlogging as well. They're doing videos to go along with it.
But the older people are going, ah, I didn't have

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time for it. The new generation is rising, and I'm
very much open to it. But to say that I
came from the good old days of radio, I'm not
agreeing with you. I'm kind of jealous of the ones
that are in it right now because their platforms are bigger,
have a greater outreach, and really invite you to explore
in areas that make you the talent and not a

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program director or a consultant keeping you under control. So
that's today's subject. When someone says the good old days, Hey,
do you remember when it used to be this way?
Are you inviting yourself to quit? Because life is about
change and you have to change with it. If you
stop growing, then you stop learning, you stop enjoying. People

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always wonder why do I have such a young attitude.
It's because I'm discovering new things each and every day.
I don't have to like it. I just love life.
I'm Meryl. Ask the questions, question the answers. I call
it defragging.