Pandora's Charm On The Soul (Meditation 1)

Earlier this week after discussing Pandora in class I decided it would be a cool idea to check it out. Well it was cool indeed.

Having never been on any type of internet radio before it was quite the experience. It all began while I sat in my dorm and typed Pandora.com into the search bar. As the page loaded and I waited in anticipation, I started to hear a faint noise coming from the speakers. It was no other than Pandora playing my favorite music from my Facebook page. Immediately I was taken back. I wasn't sure if I should have been frighten by this or incredibly impressed. I mean, this was the exact definition of a Cultural Shift. Nothing is private anymore and this is now apparent to me.

For those of you who do not know what Pandora is, I will gladly tell you. Pandora is an online radio website where you can personalize the music you listen too.

I have here the song that played when I went to Pandora.com

Jason Robert Brown is a composer, artist, and is well known for writing Musicals.

So, as you could almost imagine I had a very limbic and reptilian reaction to all of this. Limbic because the music is just to my liking, and reptilian because I wanted either run or make sweet love to this web site!

On a slight negative side I do have to say that the ads do tend to eventually get on your nerves, and also it is a bit confusing to understand how to even use it. I found that it was difficult to make a playlist of only songs I wanted to listen too, not the songs Pandora thinks I want to listen too.

Image taken from croatia.org






This image is the essential basis of Pandora it is where you search for the artists you wish to listen too.

Overall, Pandora is a great experience. The big question is, is it better than Grooveshark?