pandora's bad rap.

so, sunday night, z mentions pandora, and i forgot it about it until today, but i'm trying to make up for lost time. just now, i heard diana degarmo - the very same woman who succumbed to the superior vocal stylings of fantasia on american idol a while back - and i am stunned because this diana degarmo is hardly recognizable. i mean, she's actually good, or at least this song is. no longer the 16 year old with too little experience to know about subtlety, which made everything she sang sound like someone singing without knowing what the words meant. but now. geez. now she's singing songs like "all i never wanted" and damn if there isn't some subtlety there. and before that, there was a flashback to billie myers - remember that song "kiss the rain"? i didn't grow up watching mtv, but i must've seen that video at a friend's house or something, and i swear to god, i fell in love and didn't know it. and there she is again. anyway. it's amazing. i feel like someone just made me this incredible mixed cd. and i am smitten. anyway, i'm glad that someone decided that pandora got the shaft in modern interpretations of greek mythology.

and dammit. i've turned into a country-western fan. it started out innocently enough, me falling in love with just about every singer/songwriter who came along, mostly all folky, still falling for lucinda williams. and pandora points me to dwight yoakam, "a thousand miles from nowhere". i'm serious. and. i. like. it. really. but i'm too embarrassed to click the "i like it" link, so i just let it play, assuming that my fondness for country will be obvious enough. and i've come full circle. maybe i was wrong about pandora's bad rap after all. this is dangerous. this website already knows me better than i want to know myself.