Experiment.

Everyone reading Good Bloggie probably knows that Colorado isn't the coolest place there is. Sure, it's beautiful and the people are healthy, and there are certainly worse places to live, but you don't really notice how behind you are in relation to the coasts until you have something to measure. A while ago, while reading one of my favorite music blogs based in New York City, one of the writers mentioned this song as being played on every station at night:



I actually wrote a post on it a few weeks back, but that was still when people didn't seem to know about it. As I was going through some of my music here at work, I realized that it would be a pretty accurate gauge of the speed it takes popular music to reach Fort Collins, something that I actually found to be slightly sad. I downloaded the song from the site on April 2nd, and first heard it on the radio on April 29th. (I listen to the pop station here in town simply because I enjoy trashy top-40... honestly, who doesn't?! ) The first time I actually heard the song outside of my car was at Wash Bar, on the 4th of May. I didn't hear it again until this Friday at Zydeco's. It took that particular song one month to reach our town.

The arrival of other songs are probably the same, but I always thought the ones created by artists that are more widely known would have a better chance of making it into public favor faster. Interestingly enough, I downloaded "Way I Are" by Timbaland on the same date and had yet to hear it until later than the first song I mentioned -- it could be because it isn't the current single, and Timbaland's name doesn't carry as much weight as, say, Justin Timberlake's. Still, the song's awesome, and easily the best on the record, and if even I were a DJ in a podunk white people town like FoCo, I'd throw it on for sure.

That's why I love the internet: the immediacy. Someone will post a song and you will be able to listen to it then and there instead of waiting for some 35-year-old Clear Channel DJ to decide he likes it.

Actually, that brings me to another topic. I hold radio stations in very, very low esteem. I could go on for hours over what is wrong with them, but I won't... I was listening to Kiis FM one evening while driving over to a friends house and was pretty appalled at a) what the station was getting away with and b) what people were dumb enough to do on the radio. Apparently, they had found couples who knew their spouses were cheating on them and actually convinced these people to let the DJs call and confront them. Not only is it the most passive way to do something (aside from cheating on someone, which is even more passive), but I felt that these people were ridiculous for airing their dirty laundry into the ears of hundreds of listeners. (I know it may sound hypocritical, having a public blog and all, but when I air my dirty laundry, I attempt to do it in the most cryptic way possible.) I mean, if your husband is cheating on you and you know, don't get someone else to call and publicly humiliate both yourself and him.

Alright, that got way off track, but still. Because you let me stand on my soapbox, I'll reward you with this video -- "Nora", the piano-playing cat on Conan. I cried I laughed so hard.