a musical note
Lately, I've been listening to more rock than pop in my travels around the Coachella Valley and my hangin' out around the apartment. (The one notable exception is gettin' low with serious-business rap whilst ironing.)
That probably has something to do with the fact that we have more classic rock in the Palm Springs radio market than I know what to do with. There are two stations here that brand themselves as classic rock stations. Plus, the local Jack FM plays mostly older rock, and the "new rock" station, KCLB, plays a significant number of tunes from decades past. For those of you who listen to the radio in Phoenix, KCLB has KUPD's attitude but KDKB's playlist.
But that pendulum swung back the other way over the weekend, and I've now embraced some songs that I was trying so hard not to like — like "I've Gotta Feeling" and even "Birthday Sex." I'll at least partially chalk that up to my interest in finding out what LA's new KAMP was all about. But perhaps my hanging out with SSPers all weekend had an influence as well. Something about Rihanna, JT, the Black Eyed Peas and the like just works well with SSP dance parties... and wake-up songs, for that matter.
At one point when I was hanging out up in the office at the LA site, I saw a white board that had different morning songs listed under Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Then, underneath Thursday, it said "Boom Boom Pow" and there was an arrow drawn all the way through to Saturday. When I asked, the LA staff assured me that they didn't actually sing "Boom Boom Pow" to campers for three days in a row, but the thought of waking up to an SSP rendition of the Black Eyed Peas even once still made me smile.
Anyway, we'll see if I keep up my dedication to phat beats now that I'm back in the land of way too much classic rock.