Occasionally I hate my life enough to click on “iTunes Store” to try and find the latest single stuck in my head. This tends to happen when I am completely destitute and cannot afford to pay someone to just shoot me. Instead, I figure I’ll listen to the 30 seconds iTunes grants me once or twice and decide whether it’s worth the legality, simplicity, and steep cost of 99¢. Then something like this pops up:
What is happening to the world when the “Top Songs” are advertised as including Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga, 3OH!3, and Pitbull. There has clearly been a little too much drinking over at Apple because the people they hire to figure out what to force-feed into our iPods advertise pull this kind of crap. I can definitively say that few of the above artists have a shred of talent or appeal to anyone with half a brain, or more importantly, half an ear. Beyonce and maybe Daughtry aside, this list is either washed up, utterly ridiculous, or both.
Black Eyed Peas? Really? Isn’t Fergie dead yet? Seriously… we decided many years ago that Fergie was musically and physically unappealing. Then will.i.am is such a self-righteous hack that he rode the coat-tails of the Obama train to receive credibility from WASPs. And the other two aren’t even worth being able to recognize (or ever come out with a worthwhile solo album). I refuse to believe that this world sucks so much that “Boom Boom Pow” could possibly be #1.
Pitbull is just too ugly to want to search for. The same obviously goes for Lady GaGa and Flo Rida. A news flash to all the hipsters: 3OH!3 is OLD NEWS and we all hated them two years ago! Way to be on the cutting edge of the scene, suckas. This leads me to believe that the iTunes Store has not only lost its credibility, but become obsolete.
Suspicions confirmed, the top album is GREEN DAY?????
NV/R,
Maria
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I feel what you’re saying. I don’t agree with you on those songs some of these songs are good with the expectiion of Poker Face which is straight electrnic crap!
Gross. All around grossness. I don’t think I could listen to any one of those songs without gouging my eardrums into oblivion.
Aren’t the top songs determined by what people (that is, the masses; that is, idiots) are buying on the itunes store? I don’t think Apple picks them…
Yeah, while I wouldn’t be surprised if there was something like the artist has to pay apple an extra fee to get listed on any of the top lists, I think, sadly, the list at least vaguely resembles what people are actually buying.
That being said, on that list I’ve only heard “Poker Face”, and only because I watched the very start of the video when you guys linked it, and 5 of the 10 artists I have never heard a song by to my knowledge.
Also, I will not vote on Fergie unless you give me a “clearly a toad in disguise” option.
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LOL BLACK EYED PEAS SUCK