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  • Scandinavian Girls 2.0

    Hello everybody!

    I'm proud to notice our community is growing, we have added almost 1,000 girls to our list and artists seem to be keen on joining us! Thanks to all of you for this! <3
    As we grow, I feel it is important to introduce some improvements. I would love to hear your feedback on the following ideas so please don't be shy!


    Adding genre
    • Other than listing artists, I think it would be very useful adding genre also, e.g.

    Fredrika Stahl (jazz)
    Anna Ternheim (singer-songwriter, acoustic)

    As suggested by michal_p_pl, it will be a hard work but I'm up for it, especially as I know that I can count on your help.


    Artists that joined our group
    • The number of artists that joined our group is increasing and this means I cannot list them as I'm currently doing. I still want them on our home page but I feel as it would be better to introcude a weekly spotlight in which only one artist will be displayed with details (homepage, myspace, ect), e.g.

    Artists That Joined Us! (8)


    Cover girls
    • Please feel free to make your requests here. I will be more than pleased to make you happy ^^

    Please don't hesitate to comment and to share your much appreciated ideas!

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    • I'm amazed by the idea to have the genre on the list of all artists and look with joy forward on the long discussions about the correct genres. ;)

    • I love the Artists that joined our group as it looks now. How about creating a journal article with the current format and linking it from the

      Artists That Joined Us! (8)

      plus your shortened list but without the spotlight?

    ♫ not a day without music ♫ Dieter
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    • [Deleted user] said...
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    • 21 Aug 2009, 15:41

    Re: Scandinavian Girls 2.0

    summerdreamin said:
    Adding genre
    Artists that joined our group
    Cover girls
    Please go ahead! Your points are perfect!

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  • I'm amazed by the idea to have the genre on the list of all artists and look with joy forward on the long discussions about the correct genres. ;)
    I suppose a lot of people will have to say about the correctness of the "tags" but there won't be problems as long as the discussions will be constructive :)


    I love the Artists that joined our group as it looks now. How about creating a journal article with the current format and linking it from the

    Artists That Joined Us! (8)

    plus your shortened list but without the spotlight?
    I'd be more than happy to create a journal about the artists who joined the group, it is a good idea! The new layout will be something similar to the one showed above but I still think we should have a spotlight, maybe as a simple "thank you" towards the artist :)

    Please go ahead! Your points are perfect!
    Oh well, thanks :)

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    • ikpts said...
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    • 23 Aug 2009, 14:20
    I agree with LaurenStyle, your ideas are good and should be implemented. I also like the suggestion by hdsander to have a journal where all the artist info can be displayed. As long as the main page keeps a brief list much like in your original post, then all is good. :)

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  • Thank you ikpts! The new layout for the artists who joined us will go live later on but the journal will be created tomorrow ;)

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  • The journal has been finally created :)

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  • Looks great! You're so diligent :)

    ♫ not a day without music ♫ Dieter
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  • I do my best! Next step is the tags.... ;)

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  • It's Tag Time!

    Okay okay... I carefully valued the idea of adding genre next to each artist but I soon realized it would be too laborious and exhausting. But don't disparate! I thought to a more immediate and simple solution: different tags.

    I have already created some...

    scandinavian girls: pop
    scandinavian girls: jazz
    scandinavian girls: electronic
    scandinavian girls: singer-songwriter
    scandinavian girls: acoustic
    scandinavian girls: rock
    scandinavian girls: symphonic metal
    scandinavian girls: dance
    scandinavian girls: sweden
    scandinavian girls: denmark
    scandinavian girls: norway
    scandinavian girls: finland
    scandinavian girls: faroe islands
    scandinavian girls: iceland
    scandinavian girls: indie
    scandinavian girls: folk
    scandinavian girls: metal
    scandinavian girls: 70s (new)
    scandinavian girls: 80s (new)
    scandinavian girls: 90s (new)
    scandinavian girls: 00s (new)
    scandinavian girls: 10s (new)

    ...please feel free to create yours, as long as you follow this mask:

    scandinavian girls: + genre
    (please be sure to leave a space after the punctuation mark)

    Please remember...

    • Needless to say, an artist can fall into more categories.
    • A tag goes live in a couple of days after it has been used by more than one person.
    • To reply to this post to inform me of the new tags you created.

    Edited by summerdreamin on 2 Jan 2010, 00:10
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  • This sounds like a good idea.
    No need to edit the forum post everytime a user has added a tag.

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  • Thank you Sparkrin! :)

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    • fmera said...
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    • 28 Aug 2009, 15:49
    wow... sophisticated, like geotags!

    btw, you can create a brand new tag simply by wrapping one with the [tag] tag (before you even use it anywhere). eg:

    XD

    very dangerous weapon if it falls into the wrong hands, i know.

    U.G.L.Y. - changing the face of music, one artist at a time.
    there are some things pngs can't fix. for everything else, there's pngoptimizer.
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  • I didn't know it.... thank you for this :)

    Let's see if we can find something polka :D

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    • [Deleted user] said...
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    • 28 Aug 2009, 21:25
    You know, I already did the same thing a few weeks ago for another group, so there is one recommendation I would like to share: Make sure not to tag any or bands (there won't be a lot of them around with female vocalists, anyway). The revenge of their fans will be quite a mud-slinging.

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  • Thank you for the heads-up, mvordeme! Furious fans is certainly what we don't want ;)

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    • fmera said...
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    • 29 Aug 2009, 07:36
    i seriously don't think the same would happen here. metalheads are probably very vocally protective of their tags! or very vocal because they just are.

    you actually added polka to the list?! i should have used haiku or macarena instead.

    U.G.L.Y. - changing the face of music, one artist at a time.
    there are some things pngs can't fix. for everything else, there's pngoptimizer.
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  • I'm still so untaught regarding genres/styles. As I got a reco of Liechenstein today I was about to tag them as this was the only matching description I found.

    ♫ not a day without music ♫ Dieter
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  • fmera said:
    you actually added polka to the list?! i should have used haiku or macarena instead.
    Well, the tag is in the list, you never know that we find something polka to add to it, although I feel it will be very difficult ;)

    hdsander said:
    I'm still so untaught regarding genres/styles. As I got a reco of Liechenstein today I was about to tag them as this was the only matching description I found.
    I understand, sometimes it can be very difficult to find the right tag, I guess that for Liechtenstein, pop and indie would totally fit.

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    • [Deleted user] said...
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    • 29 Aug 2009, 16:43
    The advantage of tags is that you can attach any number of them to anything. It does not do any good to tag an artist with chilling-folk-retro-pop-rock because you will never be able to play that tag radio for more than five minutes. As Steve already said, you should rather attach several tags that fit the artist's style, so the artist will appear on several tag radios. This will also avoid arguments about which of the tags a specific artist belongs to.

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  • I'm still bashful about tagging an artist with a style that doesn't completely fit because it confuses my own understanding of characterizing music. My example "chilling-folk-retro-pop-rock" means: none of the styles/genres are correct but the conglomerate meets it somehow.

    summerdreamin said:
    I guess that for Liechtenstein, pop and indie would totally fit.    Indie turned out to be the "gadget" of the musical genres. To me, indie pop says it's somehow like pop but not in it's original sense. Indie, standing alone, is simply a synonym of "don't know". ;)

    ♫ not a day without music ♫ Dieter
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    • [Deleted user] said...
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    • 30 Aug 2009, 10:49
    The question is whether you would want to hear the odd track of Liechtenstein when listening to the pop tag radio.

    You get a lot of these discussions in the metal groups. I always try to fix a tag to a certain characteristic of the music. There are for example black metal and power metal. Black metal features distorted vocals and power metal clean vocals (to simplify it). There is symphonic metal, too, which features the use of symphonic elements. You can distinguish symphonic black metal and symphonic power metal if you like, but you don't have to. If you don't care about vocals and just want the violins, you listen to symphonic metal. On top of that there are genres like Christian and national socialist metal which are mainly distinguished based on the lyrics. Although Christian metal is often power metal and national socialist metal mainly black, this is not necessarily the case.

    In the end you will make the tags more specific when you add more attributes, but that will as well reduce the number of artists available on the tag radio. If a tag is too small it will run out of music to play. Plus you will end up with thousands of different tags this way.

    As for indie: I always thought that indie marks bands that don't have a contract with one of the major labels so theoretically, it could be completely independent (haha) of musical style.

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    • [Deleted user] said...
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    • 31 Aug 2009, 15:24
    I made scandinavian girls: dance!

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    • [Deleted user] said...
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    • 31 Aug 2009, 17:01
    Which of them? ;-)

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  • All!

    ♫ not a day without music ♫ Dieter
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