| Friday, February 1, 2002 |
09:39 - If You Serenade Your Machine, Will It Love You?
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,50161,00.html
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Some companies' products inspire satire songs. I remember one, sung to the tune of "Wild World", that went "GOD ... DAMN ... I hate Micro--SOFT Word", written about at the time when version 5 was released; and then there was the infamous "Start Me Up" parody about Windows 95 ("It's suckin' up my drive!"), and probably a lot more that I never heard about.
Well, take a look at this Wired article. What we've got here is a guy who writes songs about his Macs. Nice songs.
See, when they say "Mac users love their Macs", this is the kind of thing they mean. They don't mean Mac users simply have their reasons for using them. They mean Mac users will go out and do completely off-the-wall stuff like write songs about them. Whole albums of songs. Love songs, funny songs, artsy songs... it's his theme.
They talk about "lifestyle choices", but this has got to be the best example of that that I can think of.
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