Where is your next song coming from?

Do you subscribe to any streaming service? If you do, how do you navigate the zillions of songs you might listen to next?

If you don't, that would be informative too.

I recently got 6 months free APple music with airpods, and I'm trying to understand whether I want to keep subscribing to it. It's nice to have potential access to any song ever, and another thing to actively use it, or to know how to navigate it.

I'm not sure I want to stop buying individual musical works, or to stop owning my own collection. It is conceptually fabulous having an infinitely large musical access. But that's finite if I stop paying the rent on it...

Right now, I'm listening to Talisman, from Moon Safari by Air, from my Mac, prompted by a friend who mentioned that track on his blog. Then the CD kept going, so now I'm listening to De Matin La.

But if I'd dialed up Talisman on Apple music, the next song might be something else. That something else might be determined by... a trillion dollar corporation. Is that weird? Good? Or is it up to me to take this into my own hands? Or turn it all off and reconnect with silence?

I suppose it's neither here nor there what I do, as far as anyone else is concerned really. Just an individual choice... but if everyone is in this boat, that's kind of a different society to the one I grew up in... isn't it?

Or is it?