{"id":2263482,"date":"2026-02-02T20:14:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2263482"},"modified":"2026-02-02T20:14:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:14:26","slug":"ongoing-history-of-new-music-why-do-some-songs-fade-out-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ongoing-history-of-new-music-why-do-some-songs-fade-out-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ongoing History of New Music: Why do some songs fade out? (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Last time, we talked about why some songs don\u2019t have an ending and just fade out into silence. Whose idea was that? The answer is \u201cwe don\u2019t know for sure.\u201d We do know why it caught on, though.<\/p>\n<p>Some arrangers didn\u2019t have an ending for a song, so it was just easier to fade it out. Sometimes songs were too long in an era when radio stations demanded that nothing exceed three minutes.\u00a0 Sometimes it was because the producer wanted to emphasize the hook of the song over and over again to leave the listener with something memorable. Some people liked the fade because it left the impression that the song never ended. Or maybe it caught on just because it sounded good.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case, the fade-out ending to a recording has been with us since at least the 1950s<\/p>\n<p class=\"l-article__copyright\">\n\t\t\t\t\u00a9\u00a02026\u00a0Corus Radio, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t(function (d, s, id) {\n\t\tvar js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\tif (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\tjs = d.createElement(s);\n\t\tjs.id = id;\n\t\tjs.src = \"\\\/\\\/connect.facebook.net\\\/en_US\\\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.6&appId=161185570739502\";\n\t\tfjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source q107.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last time, we talked about why some songs don\u2019t have an ending and just fade out into silence. Whose idea was that? The answer is \u201cwe don\u2019t know for sure.\u201d We do know why it caught on, though. Some arrangers didn\u2019t have an ending for a song, so it was just easier to fade it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2200209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[438422],"class_list":["post-2263482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-songs-that-fade-out"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Ongoing-History-of-New-Music-episode-1068-The-29th.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263483,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263482\/revisions\/2263483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2200209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}