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Please do stop the music
Friday, December 05, 2008 @ 4:36 PM
You know just now, I was viewing this person's profile cos that person viewed me.
So, I was like, ooo display picture doesn't look bad. AND THEN! 'Always Be My Baby' by David Cook starts playing.
LIKE, OF ALL SONGS!
Being me, I canceled the page immediately. Yea, immediately.
One second of that song is enough to kill approximately 398746 brain cells of mine.
David Cook has a really good voice (duh, he won AI) but I really hate his songs. Different style from me or whatever, I just don't like his songs. They all have really crappy intros. (Just an opinion.)
So what I'm trying to say is, don't put music on your websites. Well, at least don't put it on auto-play. (The worst websites are those that autoplay music, AND YOU CAN'T FREAKING FIND THE STOP BUTTON).
Cos firstly, listening to music, to me, (and maybe just to me) is a personal indulgement. And obviously, since I'm human, I do dislike some songs. Hence, I understand that although I think that putting music on my website would make it more.. appealing(?), what sounds nice to me may not be nice to others. Because I know that people do come to my blog, and my blog isn't that much of a personal thing, and the last thing I would want my music to do is to turn people off.
Which is why my blog is a silent one. I believe most people would already be playing songs they personally like on their itunes or windows media player or youtube or whatever, so why would I want to interupt the songs that already are playing on their side? It's like, desperately hogging the attention of the speakers, you know.
Secondly, listening to music is also an personal choice. A choice. Meaning that an individual should be the one deciding whether he/she him/herself wants to be listening to music. So we gotta respect that. Putting your imeem/flashfetish/whatever-thingy-you-use playlist on autoplay is like forcing the person who visits your site to listen to what you deem as 'good music'. That's horribly aggressive.
All in all,
I should be the one deciding what music I listen to, and when I wanna listen to it; not some random dude controlling the site I visit.
Sure, they have the right to annoy their site visitors.
Not that that may be their intention of having music on their site, but please, if you must show off your taste in music, don't put it on autoplay. Like I said, I wanna decide for myself what music I listen to.
