Erik Merle

6 Hidden Factors Influencing Music Choices in Soccer Broadcasts

by Erik Merleon January 6, 2025January 5, 2025

Music and its role in soccer broadcasts (축구중계). The music accompanying the pre-match build-ups is very exciting, while the music that plays after a winning goal is scored is triumphant.

In order to give a smooth viewing experience, this has not taken place by accident, but it’s as a result of an intricate process that takes into check various considerations.

We now shift our attention to six facts hidden behind the scenes on how soccer matches are themed using music.

1. Music Tailored for Audience Cultural Preferences

When soccer is broadcast globally, there must be consideration of diverse cultures. With Latin beats in South American games or orchestral themes in European matches, great care is taken when selecting music to cater to regional tastes.

2. Working Together with Music Producers

Just picking random songs from anywhere cannot happen here. Professional music producers who make or source tracks that give suspenseful, joyous, and agonizing moments during important game points are involved.

3. Matching Music to Key Match Events

The right timing is crucial in these instances.

By choosing songs that fit specific parts, like cheerful tunes when teams are being introduced or intense melodies during penalty shootouts, producers can guarantee perfect harmony between the soundtracks and events of a match happening below them.

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4. The Challenging Licensing of Iconic Tracks

Most of the well-known songs played during soccer broadcasts are carefully licensed. Music that is instantly recognized by fans and linked to the game’s identity is valued by broadcasters, who know the worth of these songs.

5. Testing Playlist-Before Viewer Finalization Reaction

For emotional impact, playlists are put through their paces in a focus group before a note reaches viewers’ ears. This feedback helps refine selections so that music does not distract from but enhances the footballing experience.

6. AI’s Role in Music Selection

AI technology increasingly uses analyzed audience preferences to suggest music that suits the mood of a match. It saves time and ensures that choices made will be impactful on viewers.

Conclusion

The music we hear during a soccer broadcast is far more than background noise. It’s a crafted experience designed to heighten emotions and keep fans engaged.

These behind-the-scenes insights help us appreciate how sound converts each game into an indelible memory.

Getting More Instagram Followers for Musicians

by Erik Merleon February 4, 2023June 3, 2023

It is clear that social media is a crucial platform for artists to reach their audience. Aspiring artists need to understand the strategies and techniques necessary to grow their audiences on Instagram. With the right approach such as buying affordable Instagram likes, you can build a substantial following and create a successful digital presence. Growing your reach and fanbase on Instagram is key to success in the music industry. It’s not just about quantity but also quality – the proper use of this platform can help build a strong image as an artist.

Find your own style, both online and offline

For any artist, having a signature style is extremely important. This is something that celebrity artists like Lady GaGa, Nicki Minaj, and Billie Eilish take very seriously. While that’s true, it’s also important to make sure you feel comfortable in your own skin.

Craft a unique look and your audience will easily remember you. Uncover your own style by seeking inspiration. Are The Beatles the ones that inspire you? Get your hair done and hit up some vintage clothing stores to find the perfect look. Having a consistent style in your online presence is essential for any musician. Take the time to check out how other artists handle their branding – it’s worth it!

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Take care of giveaways

The Dutch are always on the lookout for freebies, regardless of what they may be. Winning something takes precedence over what it is that they win. Start your career as an artist by opening an account and take advantage of the circle of friends and family you have who will initially be your followers.

This is the perfect opportunity to nurture relationships and grow your audience. If you want to gain more supporters quickly, one good strategy is giveaways. Your followers will be compelled to share your music when given a chance to win CDs or other merchandise as a reward.

To ensure maximum engagement, make it mandatory for participants to follow your account. These giveaways can be organized both online and offline, and taking it a step further, you can offer prizes such as goodie bags as gifts after a performance or event as well!

Gaming Music: Why Is It Relevant?

by Erik Merleon February 2, 2023May 31, 2024

Music is a wonderful medium, isn’t it? Do you know that tingling sensation accompanied by goosebumps that then travels through your spine all over your body, perhaps better known to many internet users of modern times as the term: ‘eargasm’? We’ve all had it, this wonderful phenomenon.

What makes it even more special for us gamers is that the visual and interactive aspect that comes with gaming, the feeling that you experience in, for example, an emotional or a so-called ‘epic moment’ is reinforced by the supporting audio. Ultimately, it’s about what triggers the music for emotions in you as a gamer and it’s the job of the composer of the soundtrack and the rest of the audio team to implement the music in such a way that it comes into its own.

Of course, the first thing that is looked at is what kind of music suits a certain type of game. This requires that the composer initially knows what the purpose of the game is. He/she can then respond to this when he/she composes the soundtrack. Just like Call of Dragons, almost every game is a good example in itself, but to take a nice recent example of this is the yet-to-be-released sci-fi game Remember me.

In Remember me, a female so-called ‘memory hunter’ named Nilin plays the leading role. The story takes place in the fictional Neo-Paris in 2084. Science is already so advanced that it offers the possibility to completely manipulate everyone’s memory. Memory has even become a commodity and can be bought, exchanged, and sold. Nilin’s former employer Memorize has erased her memory to defuse her and it’s now left to her to find out why this happened and how to reverse it. Sounds like a heavy emotional plot, you might think, and you’re right. You can imagine what it would do to a person if something like this happened to you. You get completely lost, or to say the least extremely disoriented.

The composer of the game, Olivier Deriviere, ingeniously responds to all the confusion that goes on in Nilin’s mind by incorporating a lot of distortion and dissonance into the music. This results (in some simple words) in a kind of faltering and ‘torn’ music that accentuates Nilin’s chaotic situation very well at certain points. How he managed to do that, he tells in the video below. The stuttering beat is especially good to hear from 4:00.

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One of the most beautiful soundtracks I’ve ever heard in the gaming scene so far is from a game I haven’t even played to this day: Nier. Although in Dutch it shares the same name with an important aspect of our intestines, it has nothing to do with it. No, it’s the name of the protagonist in this JRPG, whose daughter has been stricken with a disease known as “the Black Scrawl.” You follow him in his distressed (not to mention, monsters) quest to find a cure that may cure the disease.

The game goes through life as reputable by some and despised by others, although I believe that those who despised it were little familiar with the more or less niche genre in the West that is the JRPG. Those who were singing nothing but hymns about the overall experience Nier had to offer, and the soundtrack in particular turned out to be an unexpectedly big plus for many. See for yourself why below.

If you are still not convinced of the power that music has, then I would like to challenge you to play an iconic game for you with your TV or monitor on mute. I myself was brawling to a friend in Super Smash Bros. Because he was called, we were forced to turn off the volume knob completely. After only a minute or so he was ready, but we still played without sound. What a boring lot it had become! Only then do you notice how much you miss the Pokémon Stadium tune and all the explosive sound effects that come with it when you knock someone out of the picture by 140%?

So a memorable soundtrack really has the power to take a game to the next level. Do you have games of which you almost adore the soundtrack and/or the sound effects? Then mention them in the comments below, with the title, if you know it. Music is there to share and enjoy, isn’t it?