“This is as good as it gets.” You realise something like that sometimes. You arrive at a point in your life where you are content with the current situation. This is perfect, it cannot get better, I can grow old and happy with this.
You live, you do, and you are happy.
But one day something comes along that you also find interesting. You feel it out a little, carefully taking the first steps toward a new happiness. While feeling guilty about your true love, you enjoy more than you ever dreamed of the possibility that it might get even better.
Have you been fooling yourself all this time? Were you afraid to take a risk? You learn that you were simply stuck to something that felt like a brick in your stomach.
At such a moment, you have to be honest with yourself, but especially with your “true” love.
Still, there is sadness. Because you know that even true love can break.
Last Tuesday, Spotify was released in the Netherlands. Since then, I have opened iTunes, my former true love, only once.
Spotify is wonderful. Legal music streaming, without waiting twenty minutes every time for that one nice album to finish downloading.
Another point: for years I have downloaded albums, while barely buying CDs. The score is 5,023 for the “downloads” versus 14 bought albums. That also eats up all the space on my MacBook hard drive. It is time to give something back to the industry, to the artists who have let me enjoy music for about 22 years.
Thanks to Spotify, I have millions of songs at my feet, waiting for my signal that they may blast deliciously through my speakers. That is what those songs want, right? To stroke my ears with their sound.
No, Spotify and I are going to skip together through the musical landscape, hopefully on our way to a long and happy life.
Until something better comes along again.
Edit: Because Spotify is lovely, I will regularly make playlists with lovely music. First up: a playlist with the best hip-hop tracks ever. Alxndr.nl Best of Hiphop Playlist.