At some point last year this guy was on the Stern show singing his other hit song, “Low.” He was so horrible in that performance that I figured he would be both laughed off of the show and pretty much lose his rapping career. Not so! I guess that with the amount of electronically-stylized music that is out in the market today the masses don’t really care about entertainers who can’t really perform live.

It’s definitely a weird change for the music market where, at one point, you actually had to be able to sing and carry a performance on your own. Today, all you need is a sound mixer and you’re good to go! Weird.

All I know is that if you listen to Flo Rida’s live renditions of “Low” and “Right Round” from the Howard Stern show, you’ll think this guy is the biggest scam artists on the face of the earth…or at least in the music industry!

What really concerns me is the merging of the two styles. SIRIUS Satellite Radio has dedicated itself to 100% commercial-free music channels. I like that – a LOT. Each morning when I go to work I have to flip over to regular radio for about 2 minutes when I go into the tunnel into Trenton. Folks, if you want to know how good commercial-free radio is, consider this…

Go through your regular radio dial in a 2-minute period and tell me how many stations that you LIKE to listen to are playing a commercial. Chances are that it’s more than a majority. Sirius’ commercial-free radio doesn’t put you through that crap.

It should be interesting to see how these two brands merge. But I’ll tell you this – if they raise rates and/or put commercials on these music channels, I’ll drop the service in a heartbeat. Yeah, I like listening to Howard Stern and Artie Lange, but they are only in there 3 days a week – 4 days if we’re lucky. Fifteen to 20 hours of programming just isn’t enough to keep me as a subscriber if I have to listen to commercials when I’m listening to the music.

Let’s all hope they do this the right way – the SIRIUS Satellite Radio way.