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CONTENTS Junior defensive lineman Adel Mountassir goes to tackle a offensive lineman. On Oct. 4, the FHN football team competed against Francis Howell Central. Mountassir is thinking about pursuing football after high school. 34 (Photo by Riley Witherbee) ENTERTAINMENT 1 Vinyls vs. Streaming 2 Compare the differences between how you can listen to music Black Friday Deals Find out where to shop and get the best deals for this upcoming Black Friday NEWS 6 Changes for FHSD 8 Superintendent Mary Hendrick-Harris has plans to improve facilities New Film Club New Social Studies teacher starts a new club to watch and analyze films FEATURES Student Fashion Take a look at how students throughout FHN use fashion to express themselves 15 20 Off to The Circus Adelle Gertch takes online classes so she can train for the circus during the day SPORTS From Soccer to XC Joey Albers Prize switches his sport in his last year of high school at FHN Dribbling in Pink For breast cancer awareness, the boys’ varsity soccer team wore pink jerseys 34 36 OPINIONS 42 Environmentalists 43 Read into the debate about weather enviornmentalists are benefital or not Christmas Music Festive music should wait to be played until November and December ON THE COVER A Juul is being pulled out of the game Operation. This issue addresses the prevalent vaping at FHN. Many school districts and levels of government are taking action against vaping. (Photo Illustration by Phoebe Primeau) 09 Freshman Wonder Reed reads her script for the upcoming play. The second rehearsal of “Once Upon a Pandora’s Box” was held in the FHN auditorium. The performance will take place Nov. 21-23. (Photo by Alyana Furch) 14 Senior Leann Smyth dresses up like Princess Jasmine before she goes to a child’s birthday party. Smyth interacts and sings songs with the kids. It is a weekend job for Smyth. (Photo by Riley Witherbee) FHNTODAY.COM | 11.20.19 | CONTENTS PAGE BY KARSYN WILLIAMS
VINYL VS. STREAMIING Making the case for vinyl, a once forgotten format in the new era of quick and easy listening on streaming services by Jack Cleaveland jack.cleaveland@gmail.com | @Braackn If you look around the hallway at school, most if not every person wearing headphones is using a streaming service. Whether it be Spotify, Apple Music or Soundcloud, streaming services are the cheapest, quickest and undoubtedly the most convenient way to listen to music today. So, why would anyone want it to be different? There are many reasons why someone may choose not to use a streaming service. There’s sound quality differences, more benefits towards the artist and a feeling of pride when one is in a conversation about an album and they can say, “Yeah, I have that one on vinyl.” First, sound quality. While a lot of people don’t pay any mind to the sound quality of their music, it’s there. For example, on Spotify, all the song files have been compressed to make the song smaller and able to be played back faster and easier. This compression process is what makes your music sound different on your phone than it does on vinyl. There is more flexibility to how much content you can put onto a 12-inch record than there is for a single song on a cell phone or computer since streaming services have a predetermined amount of space a song can take up. Compression reduces your music’s dynamic range: the variation between the song’s loudest parts and its quietest parts. Second, benefits toward the artist. Everyone knows the artists we look up to are pretty financially successful, but we never think about how the money actually gets to them. If an artist is signed to a label, they own the rights to the music and, therefore, they decide where and who the money goes to. The artist’s management, their label and anyone else involved in the production Where to Shop for records: Vintage Vinyl Music Record Shop Record Exchange Discogs.com Euclid Records Music Reunion Planet Score Records Record Reunion Dead Wax Slackers of the song or album in question is going to get a cut out of the total profit from the song. If you listen to this song on Spotify once, an independent artist without a label or any collaborators makes about $0.0044. Now to make minimum wage off that one song it will need to be played 366,000 times. Yeah, that’s a lot. Now imagine someone huge like Playboi Carti. Currently his song “Magnolia” has 342,248,579 plays on Spotify. Doing the math, Carti and his management have made approximately 1.5 million dollars off that song’s Spotify streams alone. Physical sales are another story. If someone releases their album to record stores on standard 12-inch LP’s, those records are going to retail for around $20-$25. Let’s use Prince’s “Purple Rain” for this example. Currently, the album is at 25 million record sales worldwide. A rough estimate for the profit of that album is around $562.5 million. So, it’s obvious to see that if you can get your album in stores and people are buying it, the profit will be much higher. Finally, the pride that you feel when you own a record. There’s something about listening to an album on a streaming service, falling in love with it and then going to a record store and making the commitment to spending the money on it. It can make the album resonate in a different way once you can physically hold it, look at any exclusive cover art or listen to any exclusive songs that only came out on the album’s physical copy. All in all, whether you’re streaming your music or listening to all your favorite records, music is music. While streaming’s convenience and ease of access makes it a rational choice for the casual music listener, vinyl has higher sound quality, record sales are more beneficial to artists and it makes you feel much cooler. PAGE BY JACK CLEAVELAND ENTERTAINMENT | 11.20.19 | FHNTODAY. COM 01
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