I do appreciate the datapoint of ‘the songs were hard to singalong with’. Fwiw, one other person said ‘I kept being surprised by how possible it was to singalong with the songs’.
I agree they still aren’t all that easy, but, also fwiw, fyi the current distribution of singalongability is what we got after 10 years of optimizing hard for singalongability (while also keeping other constraints in mind, including not being too repetitive or boring). Not saying that as an excuse, just, well, things are a lot harder than you think.
I think the situation has been somewhat compounded by the Bay not doing this for the past 10 years. I wrote this article in part because I was exasperarated at the Bay doing, like, 6-9 singalongs, spaced way too far apart such that they might as well have not been singalongs.
In NYC I think the ratio of people singing along is much higher, in part because NYC has been doing 20 songs for 10 years, which has (longterm) successfully output a community of people who a) know most of the songs, b) are more comfortable singing along with things they don’t know, because it was the thing socially expected of them.
I do appreciate the datapoint of ‘the songs were hard to singalong with’. Fwiw, one other person said ‘I kept being surprised by how possible it was to singalong with the songs’.
I agree they still aren’t all that easy, but, also fwiw, fyi the current distribution of singalongability is what we got after 10 years of optimizing hard for singalongability (while also keeping other constraints in mind, including not being too repetitive or boring). Not saying that as an excuse, just, well, things are a lot harder than you think.
I think the situation has been somewhat compounded by the Bay not doing this for the past 10 years. I wrote this article in part because I was exasperarated at the Bay doing, like, 6-9 singalongs, spaced way too far apart such that they might as well have not been singalongs.
In NYC I think the ratio of people singing along is much higher, in part because NYC has been doing 20 songs for 10 years, which has (longterm) successfully output a community of people who a) know most of the songs, b) are more comfortable singing along with things they don’t know, because it was the thing socially expected of them.