1 post tagged “strange connections”
Don't ask me why, but I somehow ended up browsing David Hasselhoff's artist page on the iTunes Store. Curious as to the heinousness of Hoff's singing prowess, I browsed to a recent release, Sings America, to check out some track clips.
You proably don't need to indulge in the experience aurally to understand just how frightening the German Wunderkid's skills were on tracks like Madonna's La Isla Bonita or Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Were Made For Walking. However, you probably should browse by on iTS just to stare in awe at possibly the strangest connection ever.
As those of you who browse iTS know, there's a section that directs you to what listeners of a particular item also bought. With the Hoff, you'd figure that it would point you at... well, you probably wouldn't figure anyone bothered to buy in the first place. However, what you probably would guess is that the Hoff gets bought by people who also buy:
- St. Elsewhere, Gnarls Barkley
- Illinoise, Sufjan Stevens
- Demon Days, Gorillaz
- Guero, Beck
- Garden State, Soundtrack
Okay, so Gnarls Barkley maybe isn't a huge surprise, on account of the ridiculous success of that admittedly fantastic album. The laws of probability pretty much state that if everyone buys something, then those fringe people who pick up the Hoff will naturally be connected. It's like using a Robert Altman movie to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
But Sufjan Stevens? Indie-Folkie-50-States-Concept-Album-Making-Sufjan-Stevens? The same guy with song titles like They Also Mourn Who Do Not Wear Black (For the Homeless in Muskegon) and A Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in which Sufjan Stevens Has an Existential Crisis in the Great Godfrey Maze? I'm not really sure how to process this information or what to do with it, but it strikes me as extremely important in the grand scheme of the universe. If nothing else, this connection only further stresses the need for someone to ultimately figure out and decide on a grand unified theory of everything.
