How do you feel about shorter songs becoming more common?

[Urbanney]

It seems like in the streaming age, artists are regularly releasing songs under 3 minutes and sometimes only just over 2 minutes long. How do you feel about this trend?

Part of me doesn't mind it considering I can have a short attention span sometimes. Other times, it sucks when a song is really good, but too short, but that can also be part of the allure. I'm also the person that listens to Lana Del Rey's almost 10 minute Venice Beach though and it has never felt long, so who knows? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Overall, I guess I don't mind the trend.

Thoughts?

[Roxxy]

I think I'm okay with it.  I'm ok with the short length of Ariana's 7 Rings and that made it my most played song of all time.  But I guess the only song that I wish was longer is probably Pretty Girls. I wish the dance break on the music video was part of the official version. That would've taken it to the next level. 

[LELE]

i recently noticed this trend too , a few days ago i saw a Paloma mami song  called "Goteo" that lasted like 2:46 minutes , and  i was like what happened ?why the videos are so short now?

[Urbanney]

53 minutes ago, Roxxy said:

I think I'm okay with it.  I'm ok with the short length of Ariana's 7 Rings and that made it my most played song of all time.  But I guess the only song that I wish was longer is probably Pretty Girls. I wish the dance break on the music video was part of the official version. That would've taken it to the next level. 

Omg 7 Rings is such a bop! It's my bad beach song! Taste 

I forget what the dance break of the PG mv sounds like tbh. I'll have to go back and listen if I can endure the video 

[Jordan Miller]

I was just thinking about this the other day. When I see a song is 2:25 or something, my first thought is LAZY 

But tbh if it justifies it, I'm in. No sense having a song drag on just to meet some ~3-minute average goal. 

[Brat]

I guess it’s fine, then they get 8 minute remixes 

[Livin4art]

Well depending on my mood , I mean we all know music is kinda trash nowadays and it's like a chew and spit fast product so I'm fine with it , still gonna jam to 4/5 minutes masterpieces from the past tho 

[whoisit]

It sucks and most released songs nowadays are growers which is even sadder. 

[theosgrlt]

 It depends if the song is good it's ok for me. Take ANTI by the Avon Lady. Full of 2 minutes songs but they are all good af. The album is good thanks to it. Sometimes it's frustrating bc we want more (Hi Higher). 

But I love long songs I think they are the best. You can have a 6 minutes song which feels like 3 songs in one. Or big masterpiece with a real work production (Bad Romance). 

[Illegally EATEN]

Optimal length of a song is between 3:00-4:00 

The fact that Selena Gomez released an entire album of 2 minute songs does not refute that. Lazy attempt at trend setting 

 

[BritneySpurs]

Music isn't art like it used to be. Artists used to have really long songs and then cut them to radio edits. Now I guess it's just the bare minimum to get a hit.

[PokemonSpears]

I haven't noticed because I don't really listen to any current artists lol but I think it's always bad. I hate it, in fact

It makes me feel like songs are incomplete and rushed. Of course super long songs get tedious and boring. But I think the ideal length should be between 3:20 - 4:20 

[PokemonSpears]

If you take The Singles Collection, the average length is 3:31. I think that would be closer to the ideal. And it's so perfect in fact, that it is exactly the length of BOMT and OIDIA 

[Fenixxx123]

Britney started this trend with her iconic short hit Pretty Girls.

do you remember when someone complained why the song was so short she replied with a "just repeat it"

 

[Deyonce]

I'd rather listen to a song that is to short than a song that is to long.

[MSTAR]

I don't like too much short songs, it sounds like the song wasn't fully exploited and they didn't gave it enough time to make a song with more contents... 

The ideal for me is around 3:30-4 minutes. But to be honnest, Britney songs are a little shorts too, they finish to early, just when we start enjoying it (essentially songs of the Blackout, FF, Britney Jean albums). 

 

But the most important: always the quality than the quantity! 

[lustwecantcontrol]

It’s so funny that you made this topic because I was just thinking the other day about how songs seem to be getting shorter these days. I think I was listening to Coffee by Kelly Rowland and Wasabi by LM back to back and thought these songs go by so quick! 
 

I mean I get it, in this day and age people’s  attention spans are shorter therefore a shorter catchier song is going to fit in better. Plus the shorter the song the more it can be played on radio and a shorter song will most likely get streamed more times. It also takes less time to create a shorter song making it easier to put out music quicker to keep the public’s attention. I guess it doesn’t bother me as long as the quality doesn’t suffer! 
 

It’s interesting, back in the 70’s and 80’s long songs were the trend and artists would often release less at a time on an album but the album would still be the same length as a 12-13 track album today. 

[MissSpearsSaysSo]

I’m not okay with it. Quality music is fading away. You can’t really create a truly good and memorable piece of music and shorten it so much. A good pop song should be at least 3 1/2 minutes. If you’re going by the typical song structure formula you need to have a good length. 
 

Things are changing because people are being forced into consuming music differently and it’s not as profitable as it was before. Music is my life and I don’t want to see art suffer because of a changing industry. 

[Born2Die]

I like uptempo songs short and ballads to be 4ish minutes long. 

I love Venice B.itch by Lana but that d.amn song is near 10 minutes long. I can't do it.

[lustwecantcontrol]

7 minutes ago, Born2Die said:

I like uptempo songs short and ballads to be 4ish minutes long. 

I love Venice B.itch by Lana but that d.amn song is near 10 minutes long. I can't do it.

Yeah that’s way too long, honestly anything 5 mins or longer is too long for me...I start to get bored after that point!