Categories: annals-of-a-rock-nerd
Tags: iTunes, pop, rock, laughter, French
Date: 09 March 2010 11:01:06
I spend a lot of time at the moment listening to iTunes and playing Solitaire, which when I was young was a game with pegs and a hole in the middle, but is now what we used to call Patience (clearly the Americans, from whom this new nomenclature comes, have no Patience).
Any road up, iTunes classifies songs as Pop, Rock, Country etc, and I often disagree with their choice and change it myself (for instance, that lovely ballad 'Never my Love' by The Association is classed for some reason as rock). So I was listening to Serge Gainsbourgh and Jane Birkin's breathy offering 'Je t'aime - moi non plus', which for some reason always sends me into gales of laughter, when I noticed that the iTunes classification for it was neither rock nor pop but simply 'French' - which sent me into even more laughter. Clearly French music is a law unto itself!