Me + Pandora Radio = TLA

Dear Pandora Radio,
Will you marry me?  Is this too sudden?  I know we've only had a few days to get to know each other, but I'm pretty sure this is True Love.

In a strange twist of fate, it was my husband who introduced us.  When I kept having to "thumbs down" Taylor Swift, I knew it was time that I stepped in and got to know you.  (Turns out he had typed in "Taylor Swift" which, ya know, explains things.)

(I don't have tweenage girls.  I don't have to acknowledge her existence if I don't want too.)

I was so traumatized that I could barely think straight.  I went to the laptop and typed in the first band to come to mind:  "U2".  Ahh...sweet relief.  After a few bars of Bono's melodious voice, I was feeling a little more calm and added "Coldplay" to the mix.  The playlist that commenced was nothing short of brilliant!  So brilliant that I stopped doing dishes and started taking notes for this post:

Counting Crows
Wallflowers
The Fray
Goo Goo Dolls
Peter Gabriel (Who woulda thought?  But YES!)
Snow Patrol (How did you know I'm a closet Grey's Anatomy fan?!)
U2
Matchbox Twenty
Coldplay
Collective Soul
and Lifehouse
Then you played a song by
Deep Blue Something and I thought maybe you weren't as perfect as I first thought.  But I was singing "Breakfast at Tiffany's" pretty dang loud, so I guess you know what you're doing.
Next, "Someday" by Sugar Ray.  Again, not my favorite, but again, I was singing right along again.  (Loudly--again.)
So far today you haven't played anything new to me, but all the songs you've played, I LOVE!
You reminded me that I really like Lifehouse and need to buy a few of their songs!  (Namely "Breathing", "Broken", "You and Me", and "Hanging By a Moment")
You just kept on wooing me with
Creed
Duncan Sheik (Barely Breathing) and
Eve 6 (Inside Out)

Not a single song was new to me, but many were songs I'd forgotten I loved.  How could you possibly plumb the depths of my musical soul on such short acquaintance?

(How did you know my cousin Wendy and I spent hours memorizing every single word to 
Blue's Traveler's "Runaround" in high school?) (<---just played.)


I don't know how you do it, Pandora, but you've won me over.   If this love is wrong, I don't wanna be right.  Tonic,  playing at this very moment, says it best:  "If you could only see the way [s]he loves me, maybe you would understand...why I feel this way about our love, and what I must do..."
"Regular" radio will forever be dead to me.  I'm yours forever!   xoxoxo


Your Not-So-Secret Crush,

 Emily

FYI:
*Pandora streams music (all sorts, including the churchy kind, according to your preference) --for free-- via the Internet.
*You don't have to download ANYTHING!
*Pandora is legal.
*Pandora plays ads after every 3-4 songs but they're short and not annoying.
*Pandora sometimes plays songs you've never heard that you never knew you already loved!
*You can give songs a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" and Pandora will further customize your radio station accordingly.  (Yellow Ledbetter {playing now} by Pearl Jam gets a THUMBS UP!!!  Love you Eddie!)
*You can skip songs you don't like, or pause songs you're currently listening to.
*Pandora did not request this review and they're not paying or compensating me at all.  (Though they're more than welcome to.)
Last but not least...
*Pandora Radio is an automated music recommendation service and custodian of the Music Genome Project.  (As seen on Wikipedia.)