Missin' MySpace

I’m going to make a pretty heavy confession here. Sometimes.. I miss MYSPACE. I know. I know. I was there when the ship set sail and I jumped with the rats off the ship and onto SS Facebook. However, there are some days when I miss those little things myspace offered. I want to be able to bombard visitors to my page with a song that I really love or that says just the right thing. I don’t want them to thumb through my information to get to the music I like. I want to like HELLO THERE! THIS SONG F’IN ROCKS AND YOU SHOULD LIKE IT TOO! I also miss the html crap. You know, where you went out to some random site and found those corny quotes, lyrics, and glitter flashing things that said your name. You could post them all over your page. It was a kid with serious attention problems dream. Flashing things and music! OH! And then there was the ability to actually pimp out your profile. Backgrounds, borders, scrollbars, even the mouse icon could be changed on myspace. My boring facebook profile has gone through it’s “banner” stage and let’s be honest, most of those are really friggin lame. But, oh.. more than anything I miss the music. Not just the music on your personal profile, no the go to a profile of a band you love, look at their top 8 (sometimes I miss that too..top 8 lost a lot of friends over that..)…anyways you could look at a bands top 8 friends and there would be another band and then another band from that bands list and another and another and all of a sudden you have this new found love for 5 different bands/musicians and you’re telling all your friends (Chocolate Bear, I know you’re out there) and everyone has this new love for some dude who deserves fan a lot more than most of the people on the radio circuit. So, yeah. Sometimes, I miss myspace. Myspace started it all, it was the beginning of a social networking revolution, a com/marketing/pr nerd’s dream, and it had the music. The day I abandoned ship for myspace, the day the music died. (Not really but I like to end things dramatically.)  Oh and here is the song I am currently obsessed with: OneRepublic-Good Life. I hear it on the radio all the time and it was the song of the "X Games" coverage this year....