Welcome for the 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll with regard to April 2014. they say April is for lovers ...

1. 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair: Music - CBS News
Welcome for the 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll with regard to April 2014. they say April is for lovers
and so is that will this month's poll, regarding lovers of songs that is. Just what could it be regarding
audio that moves us thus much? Several people think it is tough to spell out how along with why
audio moves them, it has been declared "writing about music is like grooving concerning
architecture."
One in the greatest and many beloved musicians of the final century, Louis Armstrong, described the
new swing music he has been playing later being called jazz like this, "if you do not really feel it,
you'll never know it." Songs bridges the particular generations bringing both new along with
experienced together, it gets the chance to soothe and furthermore to inspire us. It is not stunning
the Grammy Awards in CBS is actually among the particular highest-rated exhibits on television year
right after year. after a lengthy tough winter, spring provides finally arrived and which should
always be audio to end up being able to everyone's ears. And Also now the results in our poll...
Music Consumption
Nearly 50 % of the particular Americans that individuals asked nonetheless listen to audio that old
fashioned way, they will listen towards the radio. Seventeen percent get opened Pandora's Box and
also work with a digital songs services most of the time, 15 percent tend to be typically "plugged in"
to always be able to among their own private electronic devices, nine percent nevertheless spin CD
Players, six percent use their own computers and something percent are usually really outdated
school, that they still spin vinyl. Since you may imagine, the devices that people use in many cases
are associated straight for the ages of the actual user. Merely 24 percent associated with those

2. beneath the actual age of 35 are usually even now "radio heads" whilst almost two out of three of
which use private devices or even digital services. Today that's songs towards the ears regarding the
folks whom run those industries.
Pick One
Almost three from 4 Americans would select jazz as the more essential sort involving American
music. Merely 19 % believe that hip hop is more important. Hip hop is actually undeniably well-
known however jazz will be uniquely American. It embodies the actual melting pot in the southern
United States Associated With America and is also comprised of the rich gumbo regarding sounds in
which combine distinct Dark spirituals with newer types just like ragtime, blues as well as swing. the
combinations create a series of ever-changing along with evolving rhythmic beats which defy
description.
Moving On
Sing to Me
Do the homework

3. It's any toss-up involving the Fab 4 (33 percent) along with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (32 percent)
concerning that artist's songs Americans would pick to get his or her kids study. Subsequent in
order are Michael Jackson (14 percent), Billie Holiday (nine percent) and also Jay-Z (five percent).
Folks (mostly baby Boomers) between the ages involving 45 along with 64 favored your Beatles,
while those under 45 too as those over 65 went with the brilliant 18th century composer. It's a new
tribute to Mozart's genius which he could acquire a powerful coalition of the youngest and also
oldest people in the country, now that's staying power.
Turn it off!

4. There's no time just similar to the present...for bad music. Forty-two percent of Americans consider
that decade has the worst music compared with all the other 4 most recent decades. Subsequent in
order would always be the 2000s (15 percent), 1990s (13 percent), 1980s (14 percent) and the 1970s
(12 percent). people of stripes are in agreement about this one. the 70s had classic rock and also
disco, your 80s had pop along with new wave, the actual 90s had hip hop, alternative rock and
grunge but beginning across the turn in the century, Americans seem to feel audio features hit a
rough patch. Numerous folks are predisposed in order to really feel nostalgia for your music and
also songs regarding their own youth, yet by method of a wide margin, even today's younger set
feels that this decade's music will become the worst.
Time travel

5. And now regarding this month's fantasy question. So, in which decade could you leap off the
occasion device to view a band perform before they lost their particular famous lead singer? Twenty-
two percent would go back again for the 50s to see Buddy Holly chirping with the Crickets, 21 %
would drag on their own back again towards the 70s to see Freddy Mercury perform together with
Queen, another 21 percent would enterprise again to the psychedelic 60s as well as "experience"
Jimi Hendrix initial hand, 13 % would additionally flash back again to the 60s and also open the
actual Doors to determine Jim Morrison within his prime and 11 percent would journey back in order
to 90s and seek Nirvana inside the type of Kurt Cobain. Nine % would skip the actual trip altogether.
Girl's Night

6. If they were required to go to certainly one of these concerts with their daughter, practically four
from ten Americans would discover Taylor Swift. Twenty-six % picked the "Dark Horse" Katy Perry
and also 11 percent would use one Direction in order to begin to see the super well-known British
Boy Band. a paltry five percent would pick Miley Cyrus the particular former Disney youngster
turned twerker. Along With the actual prize for the least desirable concert goes to Justin Bieber. only
three percent regarding mother along with father would want to adopt their daughter for you to
begin to determine the former "boy next door" (accent in former).
Looking Good

7. 1 out of four Americans feel that the actual guitar is the sexiest instrument with regard to you to
definitely play. Yet Another quarter has the brass to choose the actual saxophone as sexiest, 21 %
are generally keyed up for piano players, 14 % bow for you to violinists, seven % get oneself a bang
from drummers and five percent are blown away from the flute.
I'm using the band
I'm merely a singer inside a rock as well as roll band...so moves your classic rock song from the

8. Moody Blues. In case Americans had their particular option of which usually player they can be, 29
% would want to become the particular lead singer. Shut behind together with 27 percent can be
drummer then lead guitarist (19 percent), keyboardist (14 percent) along with bassist (eight
percent). Rock on people. Rock on.
This poll has been conducted by simply telephone coming from February 5-9, 2014 among 1,017
adults nationwide. Information collection had been conducted in behalf associated with CBS news by
simply Social Science Analysis Remedies regarding Media, PA. phone figures had been dialed
coming from examples associated with both standard land-line as well as cell phones. The Actual
error because of to be able to sampling with regard to outcomes based around the entire test might
be additionally as well as minus three percentage points. The Particular error for various other
subgroups may end up being higher. Interviews had been conducted within English as well as
Spanish. This poll release conforms to the Standards of Disclosure of the National Council upon
Public Polls.
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