iTunes Most Played, Most Revealing

Pop in the Country

One way to really get to know someone is to click on their iTunes "Top 25 Most Played" list. iTunes will track the songs you listen to, for your "convenience", so you can rock out to your favorite songs with a mouse click. This is all great, unless you are a closet N'SYNC fan and Bye,Bye,Bye has been played over 50 times. (Not that I own that song.) ¶ However, I will admit that I enjoy pop music over any other genre.


Here are my top 5:


18 plays - Fleetwood Mac - Say You Love Me


17 plays - When I Grow Up - Pussy Cat Dolls


16 plays - Christina Agulara - When I Grow Up


15 plays - Hilliary Duff - Reach Out


15 plays - Janet Jackson - Feedback


OK - I'm kinda proud of my number one song, but the others, I don't think I would play in my car too loud in fear of someone overhearing! But what is really strange is my 6th top choice: Reba, Strange with 14 listens.¶ This brings me to my point today, somewhere along the line, Pop has trickled into the Country Music business. As Tim McGraw sings on Back When, "they put the pop in my country." Maybe he got something right there...country is losing some of its basic sounds.¶ Not satisfied? Check out Carrie Underwood's newest video Cowboy Cassonova. Visually, it has the characterists of a Britney Spear's video.¶ Still, I'm not sure how I feel about the matter yet. What do you think?

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