The following took place 30 November 2007. Kind of.
If you did not, then you certainly should read the entry called OMG, They Stole My iPod! You Bastards. You just really need the background info.
So I suppose that the grocery retail industry has, in fact, been stealing my iPod and looking at the kind of music I have there. I am, naturally very frightened, as I should be, because if I wake up one night, and see one of the ninjas stealing my iPod, he might throw some Asiatic weapons at me and kill me.
So how do I know I’m being followed?
I usually do not notice the music they play in these shops, but they just happened to be playing Madonna’s 1987 Causing A Commotion. OK. After some research, I actually found out that in its day, Causing A Commotion was quite a hit in America and the UK. But now, after 20 years, I assumed it was forgotten. I mean, sure, we still know Madonna songs like Like A Virgin or Material Girl, but not Causing A Commotion. That is like the most obscure sh*t ever.
We all know Micheal Jackson for Thriller and Billie Jean, but we don’t play his minor hits from 20 years ago. Therefore, someone is following me, it cannot be explained otherwise.
And it’s not just here in Holland. I noticed during the summer, that one radio station in Slovakia played only the ballad Rain from Madonna’s oh so massive repertoire. If the 1987 song was a hit, then Rain was poop. Not that it’s so bad, it just comes from one of Madonna’s less commercially successful albums (due to SEX) and during its time (1993) it was a minor hit.
So it seems there is a global conspiracy that’s trying to steal my iPod and make everyone listen to the kind of music I like. For your sake, I am keeping my iPod under lock and key in a Swiss Bank safe. Not that I am ashamed of what I like, I just know the majority of population doesn’t. So why do they put obscure songs that no-one remembers, knows or wants to hear on the radio? Did the global conspiracy copy my iPod Library and left the iPod with me to give me a false sense of security. Let’s keep the music on the radio temporary, and let’s keep the fan favorites from 15-20 years ago on our iPods.
Peter
