It's Tricky...

I was just watching RUN-DMC's video for "It's Tricky". And not the updated version from the nineties, I was watching the original 1986 version in all it's faded, VHS-era fullscreen glory. Ah, the memories.... I'm watching it on my Playstation 4 on an app I installed called Vidzone. It's basically a radical new idea where you can actually watch videos of your favorite music artists, one after the other. If a network like MTV or VH1 caught on that idea, there is no telling how far they'd go with it!


But for now we have to settle for music video marathons as an app on your favorite video game console. And you don't have to go all nostalgic. They do have 80s and 90s videos, but of course most of the contents are based on artists of today. And they will remind you of this. A lot. Meghan Trainor, Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran and, of course, Pitbull. (The guy is such a popular singer and collaborator nowadays he just released a single featuring himself.) They are on every ad between each song: one continuous loop, 10-15 second samples each to let you know what's hip, what you should listen to. And you probably will.

Ah... "Shake Your Rump" by the Beastie Boys just started.

They give you the option to create your own playlists. I did my own. I'm so cool I called it "My Jams". I started right away adding Madonna, No Doubt, Weezer. All the artists I listened to in my teens. But something was not right. The novelity was wearing off quickly. I wanted it to bring me back to the musical past I enjoyed so much as a kid. But what was missing was the lack of control. Unless you sat around all day, waited for your favorite video to show and recorded it on your VHS, there was no way to do your own playlist. You had to take the videos as they came, if they ever came at all.

And that made me realize... that it sucked. Waiting back then sucked. Making the playlist now on this app does, too. So I am stuck with a problem. I want to make my own playlist with my favorite videos of the past, but it takes away the feeling of no control, of receiving the video as a gift. But waiting for the videos to come wasn't that great either.

Maybe I should just forget about it and just watch whatever is on now. Yeah. I mean, it tells me what is popular now.

And now I'm watching Miley Cyrus in "Wrecking Ball".

I think it's time to turn off the app and just play a game.