Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Are you kidding iTunes?

For some music lovers every Tuesday is like Christmas/Hannukah/Your Birthday. There sitting under the Christmas tree that is "Free on iTunes" is an endless possibility of potential music that Apple can decide to give me. But recently, every Tuesday instead of getting a "Red Ryder BB Gun" of a song (if you don't get that reference you either don't celebrate Christmas, don't own a VCR, or have spent every evening of December 24th and day of the 25th in a way that I probably don't want to know about) I've gotten the equivalent of gift wrapped crap. Are you kidding iTunes? When I click on the Free Song every Tuesday I expect to hear something I at least can tolerate. And yet when I listen to the preview of the song that you're so excited for me to download, you violate my eardrum so terribly that it needs to go take a cold shower to wash away the shame that you have bestowed upon it. They make Lifetime movies about what you've done to my ear, and yet you continue to gift me terrible music. No means no iTunes. What makes you think I want to hear a "French vocal legend" or some blues singer that makes me want to cut myself, because that pain would be better in comparison. And it's not like Apple doesn't have staff that has the ability to pick good music. After I've heard the majority of your commercials, I've gone to your store and bought the song. But that just proves the point that you iTunes, are a gateway drug. Parents warn children that drinking and smoking can lead to harder drugs if they're not careful, and yet they let those same children click on the iTunes store page without warning. In a situation like this iTunes take a page from Michael Jackson's book. It was he who sang the powerful words "Think about the generations and to say we want to make it a better world for our children and our children's children" in Heal the Wolrd. Because if anyone knows about taking care of children iTunes, it's MJ.

1 comment:

Mike said...

exactally my friend