Music Survey

Monday, September 17, 2007

I want to address the Online Music Survey, but I want to start off with something God tells us first.
“Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.” This doesn’t mean “Don’t say words that are considered curse words.” It means don’t talk badly about someone or criticize them to bring them down, but be an encourager who uses their words to help build people up. Just like we learned in kindergarten, we should only use nice words.

Well if you have taken the survey recently and left a comment, you have probably noticed some “not nice words” being used, and negative comments directed at certain artists or DJs; comments like “Why do you play Toby Mac? He is a disgrace to Christian music.” Or “Barlow Girl is terrible, nobody likes them. They don’t sing about God.” Week after week we get comments like these, and week after week we get people defending the artists or DJ’s and voicing their opinion as well. I want to bring some peace to this situation.

Well we here at Yes FM take every person’s comment seriously, and we value the opinions of each and every one of you. But we also want to play the music that the majority of our audience wants to hear. So if someone leaves the comment “Nobody like Toby Mac,” but 2,000 people in Toledo pay to go to see Toby Mac in concert, and the overall RESULTS of the survey say that most people like Toby Mac, then we will play Toby Mac. We love that people leave comments and we want you to know that we read each and every one, but we also know that one person can not speak for everyone when they say “no one” likes a certain artist or DJ.

We’ve recently gotten the comment “It is not disrespectful to have an opinion. It is disrespectful to argue about it.” Well the truth of the matter is that although it may not be disrespectful to HAVE an opinion, it may be very disrespectful the WAY you voice your opinion. Accusing artists of bad motivation on a webpage IS disrespectful. Another person standing up for that band is NOT disrespectful. You can let us know your opinions of our music or artists without offending those people who do like the music or artist.

We as DJ’s also like to know how we’re doing. Sometimes you tell us we talk too much, or we don’t announce songs enough, and we try to listen to that as best as we can. Our programming director has eliminated some talk-time we used to have every hour, to keep the talking down for all of you! So we really do like to know if there are things we can improve on.

“But if I speak with the tongues of men and angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or clanging cymbal.” Please leave your comments with LOVE, even if you have a critique for us, something we can do better, a question about an artist, or anything that may seem negative. God’s Holy Spirit does not give us a hostile or negative spirit, it gives us a gentle and loving one. If people continue to have hostile comments we may have to just delete them from the website. We will still read them and keep them with our final comments results, but we may have to delete them from the website so as not to bring anyone down.

Again, we value your opinions, and we take every single comment into consideration. We are here to bring new, fresh, positive music to our listeners. Please continue to take the survey and let us know how we’re doing!

Sincerely,
Ashley