Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don't really care what's playing, they just know that they kinda like it or it's easy to drive to or it's easy to sing along to or whatever.

Also in 2006 Stipe appeared on the song "Broken Promise" on the Placebo release Meds. He was also credited as a producer of the 2004 film Saved!. M.

Outside of the music industry he runs his own film production companies: C-00 and Single Cell Pictures. He was in charge of R. E.