Tuesday 10 April 2012

Why, Youtube, Why?


Why... that's the question I'm asking myself, the world, the great void of the internet... and you.
What has happened to Youtube? I understood before that it was being taken over by Google and that this mean we would have to put up with the odd advert.
BUT why can't they make any sense.

Take today for example, I'm chilling out just been at work come home and think to myself " I think I might put some Queen on while I get started on my university assignments."

So I type in that hallowed link of mine to discover to my disgust  that Bohemian rhapsody has been brutally disfigured by the advertising Gods. I  find myself forced, notice that forced... against my will, not coerced, persuaded or even driven by a burning desire, to witness Justin-hey-I'm-no-longer-prepubescent-and-whiney-i'm-a-rapper-like-puff-daddy-now-Bieber serenade me with her latest song 'boyfriend'

Seriously why? this advertisement is wrong on so many levels:
One it's Justin Bieber, therefore about as appealing to 19 year old males as getting your penis chopped off.

2. I'm 19 years old, and guess what what that means?.. I'm not 12 anymore, I know what music I like, and  that also means I know I don't like her music.

3.There is no skip option. None. That means I have to listen to Bieber I possess no choice whatsoever. That's wrong on so many levels, If I want to listen to Bieber then I will,I will type her name in on Youtube and consequently call up the nearest psychiatric  ward and request to be admitted for severe mental trauma and not to be released until I recover my sanity.

4.It's Queen I want to listen to. You know the classic rock band from the 70's, with their own musical named after them and songs that still play on the radio. But what do I have to watch first, a 30 second clip of Justin Bieber, who has utterly no relation to Queen in the scales of musical taste.

I guess what I am trying to say overall(besides my burning dislike of Bieber) is that some advertising just doesn't make sense if I have to watch an advert I wish it would at least be targeted to meet the requirements of myself as a person, or at least exist within the common boundaries of genre, say if I search queen and I get an advert for journey's greatest hits, then maybe I would not care as much. But being submitted to Bieber's music when all I want is Freddie Mercury's outrageous vocal range is wrong.

So to that end I ask you, Why, Youtube,Why?..