Popular music? What’s that?
Last night Katie asked me if I knew that song “I kissed a girl.”
“Of course I know it,” I said. “Well,” she responded, “you don’t exactly listen to ‘popular’ radio.”
“But that song has been around forever …” I retorted.
Apparently I was wrong. That was another song about kissing a girl. And I have never heard this particular (apparently bad) song. I hope I can keep my streak.
It’s true that I never listen to so-called “popular” music unless I have to. To me, popularity doesn’t have anything to do with good. Take the Macarena, for instance. I was on vacation when that song came out in 1997. When I first heard it, it was already popular. I thought it was a joke. I really did.
Give me emusic, pandora, and last.fm any day of the week over top 40, or whatever it’s called these days. I will pass.
