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Back before the days of YouTube, people would have to watch music videos on TV, believe it or not.
Now if you wanted to request a video, you'd have to pay a service called TheBox, call it in, and they'd charge your credit car $2 for three music videos or a dollar for one. Otherwise, you'd just watch MTV, BET, or VH1.
VH1 would play older songs a lot of the time, which didn't make it too popular with the younger crowd, but I personally loved it because of one program: pop-up video.
The show wasn't anything special: they'd play popular music videos and little infographics with factoids about the artist, the video shoot, or the song, would appear on-screen. It made watching the videos a little more interesting, and helped to get more mileage out of played-out tracks.
So when I first saw the "Genius" annotations on Spotify, I was immediately brought back to my pop-up video days and a smile crept up on my face. Pretty soon though, I was smiling for a different reason. Because a lot of the annotations were unintentionally hilarious.
And you can tell when you've got a different writer. Clearly this person has a much higher standard when it comes to being being a granular, grammar nerd.
Like this religious-themed, deep read into some of Drake's lyrics in "Passionfruit."
The footnotes that show up with Genius lyrics on Spotify are so unintentionally hilarious. pic.twitter.com/fqxpFBXV19
— Old Hoss Radbourn (@realcaptainmorg) April 8, 2018
