If I get one more e-mail about Pandora, I’m gonna SCREAM!<\/p>\n
Pandora is a scam.\u00c2\u00a0 Plain and simple.\u00c2\u00a0 Another dot com production, just half a decade later.<\/p>\n
How many times have we seen this movie?\u00c2\u00a0 With Firefly?\u00c2\u00a0 With other suggestion software?\u00c2\u00a0 It just doesn’t WORK!\u00c2\u00a0 If machines could tell us what feels good dildos would be as good as dicks.\u00c2\u00a0 And last time I checked, they weren’t (and they still don’t have a male version).<\/p>\n
Why everybody’s a fucking lemming and is citing this as the future is unfathomable to me.<\/p>\n
Let’s see how hard it is to start Pandora.\u00c2\u00a0 Just find a genre of music, pick all the key artists, pick a few good tracks, and VOILA, you’ve got a station picked out JUST FOR YOU!\u00c2\u00a0 Make me puke.<\/p>\n
Don’t you see this is about MINDSPACE?\u00c2\u00a0 And that Pandora is laughing, hopefully, all the way to the bank?<\/p>\n
It’s not about turning you on to new music, it’s about selling ADVERTISING!\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, you can avoid ads by paying three bucks a month.\u00c2\u00a0 But why should you do THAT, when for a bit over four times that you can get XM or Sirius?\u00c2\u00a0 Programmed by real people, with a hundred odd streams?\u00c2\u00a0 Why don’t you just give your money to these wankers with probably two employees. (Well, maybe closer to twenty, but don’t you get the point?\u00c2\u00a0 There’s a tiny investment in manpower and a whole lot of hype making you believe something is here, when it ISN’T!)<\/p>\n
Think this through.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, you might find a few good tracks.\u00c2\u00a0 But how much time are you going to invest in finding them?\u00c2\u00a0 I put "Jackson Browne" in as my station, and every time I’ve logged on in twenty minutes I’ve heard more mediocre crap I have no interest in listening to, never mind buying, than I hear in a whole DAY on Mike Marrone’s Loft on XM.<\/p>\n
Let’s see…\u00c2\u00a0 According to Pandora, if you like Jackson Browne, you like the Babys’ "Midnight Rendezvous".\u00c2\u00a0 God, they didn’t even peak in the same ERA!\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe if you’re a wimpy girl you might see the two as core, but if you’ve got the Babys, why not REO?\u00c2\u00a0 Or Journey?\u00c2\u00a0 They’re probably coming.\u00c2\u00a0 And those acts are a TURN-OFF to the Jackson Browne fan.<\/p>\n
Jackson Browne is a singer-songwriter.\u00c2\u00a0 I’d expect the Pandora station to play Karla Bonoff, Linda Ronstadt, Warren Zevon, maybe even the EAGLES!\u00c2\u00a0 But I get the GIN BLOSSOMS??\u00c2\u00a0 And now, Paul Collins’ Beat.\u00c2\u00a0 Pandora gets props for obscurity, but "Walking Out On Love" has got NOTHING to do with Jackson Browne.<\/p>\n
Like I said, it’s a scam.\u00c2\u00a0 By making you THINK the station is programmed for YOU, they get you to listen for too long a period of time, listening to music you otherwise would have tuned out, just so they can accumulate listeners to sell spots to advertisers.\u00c2\u00a0 Think about it, it’s radio with NONE OF THE COSTS!<\/p>\n
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