Fiona Apple – Valentine
After hearing this song on an episode of “Girls” I pretty much fell in love with it. It was such an endearing scene between Adam and Natasha dancing together at a party and one of my favorite scenes in the series.
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Social Media Anxiety: It Exists
When you say the words, “Social Media Anxiety” out loud, it may sound kind of silly because after all – how can we take social media all that seriously? But it exists. I know because social media anxiety is exactly what happened to me yesterday morning when I was trying to promote a Yow Yow! post on Facebook. First I posted it. Four minutes later I took it down. Then I posted it to a friend’s wall and deleted it. And then I re-posted it to my own Facebook again. It was so ridiculous and I’ll admit I was a little bit embarrassed, but that is in fact what social media anxiety is at its finest. When you know that what you post will be seen by others that you are connected with, it’s hard NOT to feel self conscious. Is the status your posting witty enough? If it doesn’t have enough likes, is that a bad thing? Is my Instagram shot artsy enough? Will my tweet garner any re-tweets or replies?
The Today Show recently conducted a study in which they surveyed 7,000 American mothers and have discovered that 42% of them suffer from “Pinterest stress” – the worry that they are not crafty or creative enough. Yeah, that’s a real thing.
New York Magazine just wrote up an entertaining piece about the 6 Major Social Media Anxieties and it couldn’t be more spot-on. Check it out here.
Song of the Day
Estelle – Love The Way We Used To
Song of the Day
Justin Timberlake – Mirrors
Happy Justin Timberlake day y’all!
The album is on Spotify. My entire sick day at home will consist of this as my soundtrack.
Also very happy to announce that Questlove broke the news that there will be a second Justin Timberlake album due out in 2013. Best news ever?
Obama Inauguration Playlist
photo cred | Apartment Therapy
Inauguration is Monday and is there any better way to celebrate than with an Inauguration playlist filled with President Obama’s favorite songs? Of course there isn’t. Get started on the festivities from now all the way to Monday with this playlist featured on Spotify here. The 16-track playlist includes John Legend’s “Ordinary People,” Katy Perry’s “Firework,” Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours),” and many more.
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Suits Premiere
Tonight is the return of SUITS and to celebrate y’all get a whole list of songs to suffice for your Song of the Day. One of my favorite playlists on Spotify is a compilation of songs featured from the show. Start your listening here.
COUNT EM’ 1, 2…60? 2012
Every December, I look forward to counting down my 50 favorite songs for the year. However, I’m on the Yow Yow 4th birthday train so I’m making it 60 tracks! The task has become a little easier for me this year because I haven’t added any new tracks to my iTunes library so the majority of the songs will be coming from my Spotify playlists and Yow Yow’s Songs of the Day!
There aren’t really any terms that I’ve set for the countdown, but since I run this – I pretty much decide what songs I want to be on the list and it is basically tied to one thing: They are songs that I’ve loved in 2012, but not necessarily released in 2012. And of course they are in no particular order. That’d be impossible!
Here are my favorite 60 songs of 2012:
photo cred | Stereogum
1. The Shins – Simple Song
2. Brian Fennell – Perfect Time (Blue Eyes)
3. Apparat – Black Water
4. Michael Kiwanuka – I’m Getting Ready
5. Lemaitre – Coffee Table
6. Big Time Rush – Music Sounds Better With You
7. Mesita – Living / Breathing
8. Bad Rabbits – Advantage Me
9. Brandon Flowers – Crossfire
10. Big Deal – Swoon
My Bad
It just occurred to me that you couldn’t listen to my Spotify Song of the Days unless you had a Spotify account.
Sorry everyone! Looks like we’re back to SoundCloud.
Song of the Day
The Wanted – Glad You Came – Alex Gaudino Radio Edit
It’s an unhealthy obsession, but it is what it is. Don’t judge me for it.
Song of the Day
Simian Ghost – Wolf Girl
Song of the Day
Kimbra – Good Intent
I love WordPress. I love Spotify. My two favorite things in the world have just merged y’all and it is kind of blowing my mind! If you have stuck around with Yow Yow for a couple of years now, you know that I have struggled in the past with choosing an outlet to highlight my Song of the Day’s. I started out with some really weird looking YouTube videos that were a mix of music videos and ones that were made by fans. Then I moved onto SoundCloud because it had a much sleeker design and it was easy to use. Today, we’re trying out this new Spotify x WordPress merge. Literally, my life – or my Song of the Day selections could not be made any easier. All I have to do is go into my Spotify library, right click the song, copy the URL and paste it here.
I like this method a lot, but I wanna know what you guys think. Which format do you prefer to see Song of the Days in?
Is Your Time On Spotify Almost Up?
When Spotify first entered the states, I waded into that pool pretty cautiously. I was convinced that there was no way that it could ever replace my iTunes, but it did. Today was pretty much the first time I touched it in months and it was only to preview Taylor’s new album. I still have friends though that are devoted to it and have not created an account with the better music provider and I just want to ask…WHY?! Not only does your entire iTunes library fit within the application, but you are getting an extensive library of music that you can listen to in full without paying for if you have a free account. It’s not like you can exactly feel guilty about it because it’s all legal, which still amazes me to this day.
I’ve talked a lot about why I love it and how their features continue to impress me so I won’t go on about that in this post. What I do want to talk about though is your benefit from the free Spotify accounts ending ie) my friends who are still stuck on iTunes and will never have the experience that this application has provided me with.
Earlier this summer, Spotify began as invite-only. Then they recognized their popularity and offered Facebook users the opportunity to use the application for free and with unlimited use for six months. Since I joined before this deal happened, I am wondering if I will be affected by these new changes that will soon take over. When the six months end, otherwise known as the best six months my ears have ever had, users that were a part of the deal will now have a 10hr cap on music listening per month. I believe this is the same restriction I had before also, but I’ve never even reached ten hours. The other restriction will be a five-listen cap on individual songs. Now, this is something that I have a problem with especially since I discovered a song this morning that I listened to seven times in a row.
I realize that the only solution to avoiding these barriers is to give in and just purchase a paid account with them and you know what? I might just end up doing that. Since I’ve been listening to music on the app consistently for the past six months, I might as well. For $5 a month, you will get the unlimited listening plan and for $10 a month, users will get the Premium plan and mobile capabilities.
Spotify users and Yow Yow readers, what will you decide to do?
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Song of the Day
Hey Marseilles – Elegy
Good morning! To jump into my first day of school routine this morning, I started playing the soundtrack to my day with the We Are Hunted app for Spotify. Right off the bat, I noticed that one of my favorite local bands Hey Marseilles was in the second slot on the front page! That’s huge!
Maybe I should rewind for a second.
First off, I love Spotify. I barely even touch my iTunes these days.
Secondly, I also adore We Are Hunted – a website that allows you to stream music from up-and-coming artists and bands.
Together, I love them both.
Third, Hey Marseilles is a local band that has gotten so much buzz in Seattle within the last year slash my former boss is in the band. Needless to say, anytime I hear anything about the band, I get excited especially when it involves these three things.
Count Em’ 1, 2…50? 2011
It’s that time again! Yesterday I wrote up my top ten favorite songs of 2011 for an online magazine that I freelance for so I figured now would be a good time to just finish the rest of the list off for Yow Yow. This year, there will be a few changes to the list. In the past, I have always picked my favorite 50 songs from the year regardless of the year that they were released. Sometimes I fell in love with a much older song – for example this year that song would be Rich Girl by Hall & Oates. However, I would like to follow the same format as other lists being published and the only way to do that is by sticking to this year only. The list will be out of order once again meaning the number one song may not be my number one favorite song of the year. There will also be no chronological order as I switched laptops earlier in the year and iTunes didn’t bother to save my data, which makes everything inconvenient for me. All complaints aside,
Here are my favorite 50 songs of 2011:
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pic cred: RCDL LBL
1. Alex Winston – Velvet Elvis
2. Tune-Yards – Bizness
3. Porcelain Raft – Tip Of Your Tongue
4. Toro y Moi – New Beat
5. Tim & Jean – Afrika
6. The Head And The Heart – Lost In My Mind
7. Peter Bjorn and John – Second Chances
8. Mr. Little Jeans – Rescue Song (RAC Remix)
9. The Weeknd – What You Need
10. Lissie – Pursuit of Happiness (Kid Cudi cover)
