I’m talking to you, Beenie Man!Īnd of course, as you may find to be the case when taking a spirited solo drive, sometimes you just want to hear whatever exact song it is that you consider to be your driving theme song. What’s even better is when that obscure song turns out to be a really good base for the radio to select other songs you didn’t even realize you wanted to listen to. And you certainly can’t just command an obscure song to happen to be playing on FM radio. You may not have that song in your own digital collection. One of my favorite uses of Slacker is when a random song comes to mind and you can listen in an instant. And where better to have a mood matching musical experience than a car? It’s like you have a boyfriend that makes you a mix tape in your laptop.” Except, it’s your car. But just like this Apple Radio commercial, “It knows your mood, it knows your taste. Me, I’m more a “Play: Sussudio” or “Play: Missy Elliot” kind of gal. Selection can be done by way of the intuitive touch screen or by pressing a steering wheel button and commanding the car to “Play: Fool In The Rain.” Assuming you did so because that’s the kind of mood you were in, you’d be delighted to next hear songs like Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb.” (So *this* is where that one lyric my mother used to repeat often was from!) It also provides pre-selected channels such as 80’s hits or 90’s hip hop. Every Tesla Model S comes with Slacker personal radio standard and at no additional cost. With it, you can select a song, artist or album and the radio will play the specified song as well as related songs. What they may not think about is how wonderful of an application it is for inside a vehicle. By now, it’s safe to say most Americans have used or heard of streaming music.

Nearly every party I attend has a soundtrack courtesy of internet radio.

My 50-year-old mother loves YouTube for its ability to display full music videos from hair bands like Guns N’ Roses. My 60-year-old parents in law, both of whom were formerly allergic to computers, listen to Pandora on the iPad I forced upon them as a Christmas gift. I was right, only, I hadn’t yet realized how profound of an inclusion this was for me. Like him, I was unfamiliar with Slacker before ordering the car, and assumed it would be like other internet radio services. explains the inclusion of Slacker Radio in the Tesla’s entertainment system.

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