Like some people go to the Brooklyn Flea on Saturdays, I tend to wake up, crack open my big old laptop, place it—warm through the sheets—on my belly, and go down the musical rabbit hole of search and discovery. Usually, I start with a song I can't get out of my mind. Live performances are my collectibles, and one of my favorites is Justin Vernon and Sean Carey of Bon Iver performing Bonnie Raitt's I Can't Make You Love Me. Tiny Desk Concerts are a treasure trove of great stuff as well, but today, I'll recommend Courtney Barnett— a funny, deadpan, vicious without being angry, and unabashedly gay talent in a business that doesn't make it easy. There's something very intimate about YouTube; it suits the weird melange of memory and vulnerability that live/not-filmed-for-television video usually contains.
Colleen isn't the only music addict on YouTube. According to Ipsos, 99% of Americans who watch music on YouTube go to YouTube for one music video and end up watching many more back-to-back. (Ipsos, study fielded between April 27 and May 5, 2017).
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