{"id":29370,"date":"2021-12-17T16:09:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T22:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29370"},"modified":"2021-12-17T16:09:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T22:09:24","slug":"apparently-youtube-thinks-i-like-sirenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/17\/apparently-youtube-thinks-i-like-sirenia\/","title":{"rendered":"Apparently, YouTube Thinks I Like Sirenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I have mentioned, one of my methods for finding new bands is to search for a video from a band I like and run through some of the suggestions that YouTube provides to keep me engaged and watching ads.  Although my ad blocker means I don&#8217;t suffer through the ads.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, Sirenia has come up a couple of times, and I like it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Aqe3785kEXA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, maybe not.  The videos I see look to be a couple from the band&#8217;s 2006 album <em>Nine Destinies and a Downfall<\/em> which was the only album by the band to feature lead singer Monika Pedersen.  The band has had four female lead vocalists over the years.  Maybe I just like Monika Pedersen.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>She has a distinctive voice and vocal styling a little atypical for the symphonic metal bands.  A little smaller than the Nightwishes of the world, not operatic, a touch of girlishness? that&#8217;s appealing.<\/p>\n<p>Also, she is pretty.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/monikapedersen.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/monikapedersen2.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/monikapedersen3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/monikapedersen4.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/monikapedersen5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/monikapedersen6.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It looks like she got out of the metal world after that and became a mother and wife.  Which is cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have mentioned, one of my methods for finding new bands is to search for a video from a band I like and run through some of the suggestions that YouTube provides to keep me engaged and watching ads. Although my ad blocker means I don&#8217;t suffer through the ads. At any rate, Sirenia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29370"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29373,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29370\/revisions\/29373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}