{"id":2549,"date":"2009-11-22T17:18:53","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T21:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=2549"},"modified":"2009-11-22T17:18:53","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T21:18:53","slug":"songs-i-paid-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/11\/22\/songs-i-paid-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs I Paid For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t buy much music. I usually listen to the radio in the car, and use Pandora at my computer. And a bit of Youtube if I&#8217;m craving a particular song. Plus I have something like 1,500 good songs on my iPod. So for me to buy a song, it has to be <em>amazing<\/em>. I just bought three.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve posted about my newfound obsession with David Guetta before. A few weeks ago, I bought <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/beGjncfEPt8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen title=\"David Guetta &#038; Chris Willis - Love Is Gone (Official Video)\"><\/iframe>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N9hazmsUxrM\">Sexy Chick<\/a> (if you&#8217;re going to listen to one Guetta song, make this it!), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=piqUDK8fR7c\">Memories<\/a> (with Kid Cudi).<\/p>\n<p>Today, I think my choices were a little more mainstream, and I&#8217;m convinced enough of their innate awesomeness that I&#8217;m wasting space on the blogs to talk about good songs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>Guetta&#8217;s <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E6e3R-aA2LA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen title=\"David Guetta vs. The Egg - Love Don&#39;t Let Me Go (Ultra Music)\"><\/iframe>, which, like Love Is Gone, starts off as a normal, dull song and then gives way to an awesome techno-y beat.<\/li>\n    <li>Daft Punk&#8217;s <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gN2hntZBIUQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen title=\"Daft Punk - One More Time (Original) [High Quality]\"><\/iframe><\/li>\n    <li>Owl City&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aI4JLa0hbUw\">Fireflies<\/a>, even if I am twice as old as the average fan (and of the opposite gender)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wikipedia calls Fireflies the fastest-selling &#8220;electronic&#8221; album ever. (The &#8220;electronic&#8221; music genre, not the distribution channel.)<\/p>\n<p>I tend to not be a big audiophile, but a Youtube video can&#8217;t hold a candle to a purchased song&#8217;s fidelity. This is an <em>incredibly<\/em> obvious observation, but it&#8217;s something you start to notice a bit more when you purchase a song and play it through good speakers after having heard it through a laptop&#8217;s built-in speakers and streamed over Youtube in the past.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, Guetta&#8217;s Sexy Chick is apparently #12 on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100#\/charts\/hot-100?begin=11&#038;order=position\">Billboard Top 100<\/a>, and has been in the Top 100 for 15 weeks. Don&#8217;t say I didn&#8217;t forewarn everyone that it was hot. I take full credit for the song&#8217;s rapid spread into the United States.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t buy much music. I usually listen to the radio in the car, and use Pandora at my computer. And a bit of Youtube if I&#8217;m craving a particular song. 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