Widget Hopes To Save Pandora, Internet Radio

Can ailing internet radio service Pandora be saved by a widget? That's what I <3 Pandora is hoping, as the new site pleas to "keep the music on" by having people add their widget to keep internet radio from the brink of extinction by raising awareness and support. While Pandora's woes have less to do with awareness and more to do with outrageous royalty fees, at least the widget brings some attention the government's targeting of internet radio. We expect a Save Muxtape widget any day now.

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Song Stories

“Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Nirvana | 1991

"Smells Like Teen Spirit," named after a brand of deodorant marketed to girls, was Kurt Cobain's attempt to "write the ultimate pop song," he said, using the soft-loud dynamic of his favorite band, the Pixies. Cobain "had that dichotomy of punk rage and alienation," the song’s producer, Butch Vig, told Rolling Stone, "but also this vulnerable pop sensibility. In 'Teen Spirit,' a lot of that vulnerability is in the tone of his voice." Sadly, by the time of Nirvana's last U.S. tour, in late '93, Cobain was tortured by the obligation to play "Teen Spirit" every night. "There are many other songs that I have written that are as good, if not better," he claimed.

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