A friend at work and I were talking about Vanilla Ice and Snow’s name came up. Y’know the guy who did that reggae song, “Informer” in the mid 90s. Lo and behold iTunes actually sells it from the 12 inches of snow album. I quickly bought it faster than snow melting.
And now I’m seeing how many times i can listen to the song in a row. It’s 11:46am right now and i’m on #11 in a row. Maybe I could go all day long. The song is four minutes 28 seconds long, so by 5:00pm today that will be about 80 consecutive plays. Hopefully by that time, i’ll actually understand the lyrics!
UPDATE: I listened to Snow’s “Informer” 57 times in a row.
Read the live updates of my progress in the comments below.
by play #11, i was getting kinda annoyed by the song. But now at 13, it’s sounding good again. This might be a roller coaster ride!
The setting. Wearing headphone buds in a typical corporate environment at the Tribune Tower in Chicago. There is snow on the ground. So I feel inspired by the song… well, sorta. It’s more challenging to listen to the song over and over with earbuds, instead of just speakers. With speakers it just fades into everything else. But with buds, it invades your head.
While listening to play count 16, I get kinda sad realizing that listening to the song so many times will pretty much make the song no longer a song of the middle 90s for me. But now it will known to me as “the song that i listened to non-stop one day at work.” Do i really want to ruin my great memories of Informer from high school?
Play #19, I got a video with sound from a friend, but i’m gonna have to listen to it with Snow in the background. Maybe the video will be about snow, so then it will be nice to have in the background Snow for the snow.
Play #23, with listening to this song over and over again, i feel as though there should be some sort of amazing revelation. Like finding the fine details of the song and how this rhythm matches with that rhythm. But i don’t know anything about music. Which is probably a good thing, because for a music expert, this song would probably drive them nuts.
play #24, trying to create a pdf. but having all sorts of problems. I wonder if this song is going magnify my distress over the pdf. Or will this song pacify me. Or maybe it’s the song that is making me have problems making this pdf.
play # 27, it has now been a straight two hours of listening to this song (started at 10:52am), and surprisingly, i’m not annoyed. Despite this pdf problem i’m facing.
play #31, i figured out how to get my pdf made. And it’s all due to Snow’s help. InfooormER. INformER. He likes to change the empahsis on syllables.
play #32, do you think that two hours sounds more impressive than six hours? Six just sounds ridiculous. While two hours seems much more feasible. Like “I listened to Snow’s Informer for two hours straight one day” actually sounds for real. Like someone would actually do that. But listenting to it for six hours straight is stupid. Like six hours is me doing it just so i say i did it. While two hours sounds like i just listened to it for that much cuz i really like it.
play #36, hunger is setting in. it’s 1:34pm. I wish i prepared a lunch by my desk. I didn’t foresee the addicting nature of this song. Informer has me under his trance. Trust me after play #13, i’ve been mezmorized.