"Turn Down for What": (obligatory) articles on figure skaters using music with lyrics

[Sylvia]

Jeré Longman in The New York Times:: A Lyrical Twist: Figure Skaters Perform to Music With Words

Liz Clarke in the Washington Post: Will the addition of lyrics have Olympic figure skating judges singing along?

Olympic Figure Skaters Can Use Songs With Lyrics Now & Twitter Has LOTS Of Thoughts: https://www.bustle.com/p/olympic-fi...rics-now-twitter-has-lots-of-thoughts-8170825

 

[nimi]

I'm listening to CBC Radio Q featured a 16 min discussion on the topic:

Olympic figure skater Eric Radford on how lyric music is changing The Games

Opens with obligatory discussion of "Turn Down for What", of course.

ETA: Now they're discussing warhorses like POTO. Eric is asked what piece of music he'd never want to hear again in skating and his answer is R&J.

 

[Seerek]

It's behind the Wall Street Journal's paywall, but the title does say it all...

How Figure Skating Fell Hard for "Moulin
Rouge!"

 

[Sylvia]

The Surprise Stars of Olympic Skating: Ed Sheeran and Paul Anka: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/arts/music/olympics-figure-skating-songs.html

 

[nimi]

It's behind the Wall Street Journal's paywall, but the title does say it all...

How Figure Skating Fell Hard for "Moulin Rouge!"

For those who can't access the article, here's a screenshot that somebody posted on twitter, featuring pretty amusing quotes by Zhou & Torgashev.

"The main character's name wasn't even Roxanne!"

 

[Sylvia]

French Figure Skater Maé-Bérénice Méité Just Performed to Beyoncé at the Olympics: https://www.glamour.com/story/french-figure-skater-beyonce

 

[Sylvia]

It's behind the Wall Street Journal's paywall, but the title does say it all...

https://twitter.com/WSJSports/status/963170031633862656
"Homemade Highlights are back for Pyeongchang, with one mission: to make as many Coldplay jokes as possible"

This WSJ video can be watched for free: https://www.wsj.com/video/series/py...-skating/3217DD75-F58B-4E24-A9DA-39CA78D8FCFE

Homemade Highlights: Team Figure Skating
Watch American Olympians Adam Rippon, Mirai Nagasu and the 'Shib Sibs' as [spoon] puppets
By Adam Falk
Feb. 12, 2018 4:48 pm
In the first installment of WSJ's Homemade Highlights from the Winter Games in Pyeongchang, solid performances and a history-making moment couldn't help U.S. figure skating bring home Olympic team gold.

 

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Reuters article: Pyeongchang figure skating boosted music streaming, requests on Amazon

In a sport where music can play a big role in drawing in the audience, figure skating has introduced songs with lyrics at the Olympics, a move that has boosted several songs on at least one streaming service.
Data from Amazon.com showed that some half a dozen songs featured at the Pyeongchang Games had become much more popular on its streaming music users.
The soundtrack to the 2001 film “Moulin Rouge,” Cinematic Orchestra’s 2007 song “To Build a Home” and Coldplay’s 2014 song “O” saw major boosts in streaming during Olympic competition this month, a spokeswoman for Amazon Music said.

(Moulin Rouge )

ETA:

11 Things You Should Know About Olympic Figure-Skating Music: http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/2018-olympic-figure-skating-music-explainer.html

The music isn’t free
As the New York Times reports, artists are afforded royalties that are funded by the standard licensing fees that broadcasters pay to use music. For a live event like the Olympics, additional permissions aren’t needed to be able to use the song as it is covered by blanket performing rights that allow its use in a commercial, public setting. It works a little bit differently than, say, when a Beyoncé song is used in a TV show. Then permission to use the song has to be brokered ahead of time and fees negotiated for what is called a synchronization licence.

 

[Sylvia]

Washington Post: Perspective | The 10 most memorable figure skating routines at the 2018 Olympics, ranked by song

BBC Music: The best, worst and oddest Olympic figure skating songs

The Guardian: Beyoncé on ice! How pop gave new life to figure skating