Kirsten Kilponen loves the Shazam iPhone App

By Venus Zine Staff
Published: February 9th, 2009 | 12:00am

We’ve all had that moment at a café or clothing store where a song comes on the radio that is your “jam”, but you fail to remember the song title. An episode of scratching your head, stomping your foot, and repeatedly saying to yourself, “I think it starts with a ‘b’, like baa, or bleehhh”, soon follows, until you give up, sigh, and say, “this is going to bug me all day.” But alas! iPhone has come up with yet another application to solve one of life’s many problems with Shazam. It turns your iPhone into a magical music-identifying machine, where all you have to do is hold your phone up to a TV, radio, movie, or in the air, and press “Tag”. If that wasn’t crazy enough, the application also lists lyrics, album reviews, and artist bios of the tunes you tag. Oh iPhone, what will you think of next?

Kirsten Kilponen is a Venus Zine editorial intern.