Okay. So we all know YouTube has been playing around with the layouts. Lots of people in the twittersphere (and no, I don’t only write about twitter events) have a strong viewpoint on these changes, but this article is about the latest ‘beta’ update. Google has never been known for its amazing design taste, but this takes the biscuit (irritating English expression demonstrating the most extreme instance of the context - you know you love it really):
At the bottom of most videos is a new button, labelled *new* YouTube Player …
I have seen huge amounts of traffic and emails to me based around Apple advert music, so I thought I’d better nip this one in the bud.
The author is Yael Naim, a pretty extraordinary singer, in multiple languages. Following is the youtube video I found while searching it for myself. I need to go out more.
The song is ‘New Soul’, and I’d recommend you check out others of her English-based songs from the album (other languages are cool, but the English ones flow better to me).
Here’s the iTunes store URL.