Sunday, October 12, 2008

My mp3 player

My mp3 player could potentially drive someone insane if they don't like songs with words they can't understand or dislike certain genres of music. It only has a gigabyte of memory so there are only 243 songs on it but that would be enough once you take in the details. To start with I have the menu language set to German, which I took for four years in high school. Once that obstacle is navigated you get to the music itself. The songs can be classified into every genre I have ever heard of plus subcategories of them. Once that is understood let the fact that there are 16 different languages represented sink in. On top of that there are several songs that involve two languages and there is at least one that involves three. This is where the fun begins, making jumps from genre to genre and language to language through mind wrenching progressions of logic. Surely a love song about wanting to get back together should be followed by a song about things going to get better followed in turn by songs where things are working out and a dance to celebrate. The wrench jumps from hiding as the English hip-hop/rap goes to bi-lingual Greek/English STRANA and from there to Spanish/English dance music from Venezuela that was popular in the US around 1998-99 and back in time from there to a disco style song from 1985. After recovering from that take some Bon Jovie rock followed successively by Greek dance, American Pop love sung in German, American country with a shakespearian twist, back to German rock, German rap, French blues, ending with 1990's American R&B. If sanity remains after that I can use one of the features of my mp3 player to concoct other devastating mixes on the spot in a temporary playlist. If I wanted to try and had advance notice I could even add songs from several more languages and songs that are polar opposites to my mp3 player.

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