No, really. It's one of my favorite things in the whole wide world. I appreciate new music, and I love to hear old throwbacks that make me nostalgic for my youth, and I love to hear music that I'd forgotten how much I loved.
Genre is unimportant. Great music is great music, regardless of whether it wears a cowboy hat, a trucker cap, an overturned flower pot, or a stingy-brim fedora (with requisite black-framed eyeglasses).
But please, I know how YouTube works. Usually when you visit to watch a video, they'll follow it up by suggesting other songs/videos by the same artist, other versions of the same song, or similar artists playing music in the same genre. Not once have I EVER seen a video I loved, and then sat helplessly with my arms dangling, exclaiming, "Well, shoooot... if only there were more music like that!" And then picked the lint out of my bellybutton, watching your newsfeed and praying for more.
So. It's unnecessary for you to post thirteen consecutive videos of John Prine, or Tom Waits, or Lady Gaga. Pick your favorite song, the one that really gets you pumped, the one that you'd have played at your funeral. Hell, if you're trying to illustrate the breadth of your favorite artist's talent, post two -- their gangster rap accompanied by mandolin AND their love ballad featuring the theramin. If I dig it, I'll follow up with my own research into more.
But for fricks sake, thirteen?!?!? I don't even want to click your damn link.
And it'd be forgivable if you interspersed these with actual news and updates created by your own brain, but you don't. It's irritating. So for the sake of saving my time, I have to say goodbye.
(To BOTH guilty Birds -- with one Rolling Stone.)
***Correction: all THREE of you, thanks #3 for reminding me by posting NINE videos WHILE I TYPED THIS! Cripes....
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