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The other day I sign in to an email from Amazon. They happily announced that they were splitting their cloud drive and MP3 services, which had previously been the same. The good news? I still get 5 free gigabytes of space on Amazon cloud. The bad? It doesn’t count toward my music. The free music will now let me have 250 imported songs (nt purchased from Amazon). But, don’t fret, you can delete your entire music collection from the service and start all over again, you know, if that’s easier for you.

I don’t understand this at all. I was a staunch advocate for Amazon MP3 for over a year. I was quick to point out how the website and player on my phone were far superior to Google’s. I vocalized how much I liked shopping from Amazon, especially when they give you free MP3 codes. Now, I can’t see a single reason to use it, and my Kindle will be far less useful to me. I’ll have to delete around 900 songs to get to that 250 mark. To be honest, the give gigabytes from before was already a little stingy.  I have no idea how I would pare down my collection, and I don’t think I will even try.

What does this mean? That I won’t be able to use Amazon MP3 at all, if I don’t have it down to 250 after a month’s up. Even on my Kindle. Suddenly, that purchase is looking far less extraordinary. Suddenly, the entire service pales in comparison with Google Music, which I’ve been using more lately, anyway. I can’t see how Amazon thinks anyone will pay $25 per year for the lesser service

Joke’s on them, I guess,

I love music. I spend hours listening to it every day. I don’t understand people who just don’t get it, just like I don’t understand people who have no sense of humor. Music has been helping to make me very happy lately. I’ve been dipping into the indie/pop singer/songwriter genre. There’s a lot of Regina Spektor, A Fine Frenzy and Ingrid Michaelson, among others. In fact, I’ve been downloading songs and listening to the hell out of them.

I want to talk about music all over the place, but no one has the same tastes and I don’t know how to make it an interesting blog post. Is there a GoodReads for music?!

..but his version sucks. XD

to this:

Love… (Lu-ah-uh-uve)
Love… (Lu-ah-uh-uve)
Love… (Lu-ah-uh-uve)

me more
more than ever

so you are my love and…
you just can’t wait till the morning
though I stall and studder
tonight we won’t wait any longer

you say you try to love with any heart you’ve had
but does it matter?
does it matter?

Oh…
oh oh oh oh…
Love… (Lu-ah-uh-uve)
Love…me in the morning laughter

Love… (Lu-ah-uh-uve)
Love… (Lu-ah-uh-uve)
Love…me more
more than ever

Let me
Let me
be your star
Let me be your sun

so you’re shining waiting
to put your arms around me

now we’re dancing daylight
and we will awake in the starlight

so you try to love with any heart you have
but does it matter?
does it matter?

oh
oh oh oh oh
Love… (Lu-ah-uh-uve)
Love… (Lu-ah-uh-uve)
me more
more than ever

Love… (Lu-ah-uh-uve)
Love… (Lu-ah-uh-uve)
Love… (Lu-ah-uh-uve)
me more
more than ever

Let me…
let me…
be your star
let me be your sun

so you try and love with any heart you have
more than ever

Love… (Lu-ah-uh-uve)
Love… (Lu-ah-uh-uve)
Love… (Lu-ah-uh-uve)

Love… (Lu-ah-uh-uve)
Love… (Lu-ah-uh-uve)
Love… (Lu-ah-uh-uve)

Love… (Lu-ah-uh-uve)
Love… (Lu-ah-uh-uve)
Love… (Lu-ah-uh-uve)
me more
more than ever

Love… (Lu-ah-uh-uve)
Love… (Lu-ah-uh-uve)
Love… (Lu-ah-uh-uve)
me more
more than ever

Let me
Let me
be your star

Let me
Let me
be your star

I know, where did this come from, right?

Just hear me out.

Justin Bieber, if you did not know, is a teenaged pop star whose high-pitched vocals frequently grace the air waves against electronic and R&B backgrounds. He’s a huge hit with the tweens right now and it’s kind of hard to avoid him if you’re not a fan. The obsession means his picture is just as prevalent as his music and he has an interesting look. His long, side combed bangs and fashion sense owe more than a nod to some subculture that I never understand.

With that said, I don’t get why everyone hates him.

His voice is decent. Not amazing but pretty enough to listen to. Easy enough for me to sing along to, for the most part, which is a bit amusing in itself. The music is listenable and danceable. If you take it at face value, it’s marketable. Nothing more, nothing less.

Now, the fact that he only sings about love? It’s annoying. I get it. It’s why I don’t own any Taylor Swift CDs and, I must admit, even Taylor is a better lyricist than this guy and their ages are similar. But I don’t expect all musicians to be wonderful wordsmiths. In fact, many of the artists I listen to had some pretty awful lyrics, at one time or another.

Sometimes the R&B (cultural) influence are over the top. I hate the word “shawty” but, then again, if JayZ wanted to hook me up in the music business, I’d probably just go along with it, too, even if it meant I might be a little mass produced and less than original.

Ultimately, it’s more power to him. Sure, he may have had a helping hand in breaking out but that’s how the Internet has changed the music industry. I doubt he’ll be around forever but I can’t hate on a kid who is just enjoying himself and soaking up the glory.

And I think that’s exactly why people hate him. He’s not the best looking or most talented or smartest musician out there but he’s still rocking it and having fun in the mean time and people are just jealous. Age old story.

But c’mon people! Are you really going to be jealous of Justin Bieber?