{"id":5003,"date":"2021-02-01T22:37:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T21:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=5003"},"modified":"2021-02-01T22:41:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T21:41:36","slug":"i-am-the-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2021\/02\/01\/i-am-the-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am The Beat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We have a weekly collaborative Spotify playlist at work. In the olden days, we&#8217;d contribute to it during the week, and then set it running on the sound system in the kitchen on Friday. There&#8217;s a different theme each week, and this week the setters have outdone themselves. The theme is &#8220;Q and A&#8221;: add pairs of songs, where the first one is a question, and the second one is an answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are some <em>great<\/em> and funny pairings, e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wvEQxx8KFwc\">&#8220;Where is the Love?&#8221;<\/a> followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r5V8ecsrxeY\">&#8220;Up on the Roof&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PXatLOWjr-k\">&#8220;Why Does it Always Rain on Me?&#8221;<\/a> before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l9ml3nyww80\">&#8220;Cruel Summer&#8221;<\/a>. It&#8217;s not unusual for me to go deep on the 80s for these playlists, and I fell down another YouTube rabbit hole again this evening. My treasure of the week is this gem from The Look:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Look - I Am The Beat (Official Music Video)\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j6X17dWibsM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It answers the question, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RjriWGxk7Ps\">&#8220;Who Do You Think You Are?&#8221;<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(In passing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HfGHOkPERsY\">&#8220;Twilight Caf\u00e9&#8221;<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lyV-GWhvZoY\">&#8220;Sign of the Times&#8221;<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h-t66drtfWs\">&#8220;Heartache Avenue&#8221;<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bmkcKjGyJv8\">&#8220;Reward&#8221;<\/a>&#8230; I&#8217;ll come up for air eventually.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a weekly collaborative Spotify playlist at work. In the olden days, we&#8217;d contribute to it during the week, and then set it running on the sound system in the kitchen on Friday. There&#8217;s a different theme each week, and this week the setters have outdone themselves. The theme is &#8220;Q and A&#8221;: add &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2021\/02\/01\/i-am-the-beat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Am The Beat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1720,1753],"class_list":["post-5003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-80s","tag-music-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5005,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5003\/revisions\/5005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}