If the new amendments to the Mass Media Act are passed, it will become mandatory for radio and TV stations to play at least 20 percent Slovene music. Foto: BoBo
If the new amendments to the Mass Media Act are passed, it will become mandatory for radio and TV stations to play at least 20 percent Slovene music. Foto: BoBo

If the new amendments to the Mass Media Act are passed, it will become mandatory for radio and TV stations to play at least 20 percent Slovene music (under the new proposal at least half of the daily quota will have to be played between 6h and 22h). Stations will also have to take into account that every fourth song must not be older than 2 years, while every eighth song will have to be performed by Slovene artists not older than 25. However, many young musicians think the new rules aren't that good.

"Such limits are always difficult. At the end it always turns out that the more complicated the system is, the easier it is to abuse it. It would be best to leave such matters to be judged by common sense. A young artist should be defined as a musician, or band, who/which hasn’t been on the stage that long. It's really difficult to determine at what age somebody begins creating music more seriously. Someone at the age of twenty might regularly be playing at concerts, while others begin working on their projects at the age of twenty-five," said the drummer of the Hulahoop band, Anže Burja, to MMC.