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To me, the most interesting detail in this explainer on why RDIO never caught on is that the company wasted countless product cycles trying to perfect a way for users to drag complete albums and playlists into their queues -- a feature that, the company's former design lead says, "nobody would have noticed" if it didn't exist. I'm into perfection and beauty and convenience and all that expensive stuff, but sometimes you really do have to stop listening to yourself and start listening to your customers. But also, how hard is it, in a world in which cars can drive themselves and GOOGLE probably knows what I'm eating right now, to design a queue that you can drag a playlist into?... Music for healing... "If I can help the healing process in any tiny way with my songs, words, sounds, then I'm a lucky man," writes HEEMS in a moving note on why he chose to play PARIS last night... That church in ATLANTA whose choir sings "HOTLINE BLING" and "BIG RINGS" during SUNDAY services isn't just a YOUTUBE thing; it's a real thing. "I just would hope [DRAKE and FUTURE] realize that there's a place for them... and that what they do is not too dirty for GOD," pastor WILL GRAVELY says... ZAYN MALIK loved the music his old band, ONE DIRECTION, made, but has no interest in, say, listening to it: "I want to make music that I think is cool s***. I don’t think that’s too much to ask for.” A profile of an ex-boybander that will be awfully familiar if you've read profiles of ex-boybanders before, and that is worth the read every time.