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EMI asked me to review their site on my blog. To be totally honest, I have no idea how well it fits with Fatherade, but I'll give it a shot. As near as I can figure, it's like Pandora, but with video. MTV on demand. Youtube with higher quality.
One of the setbacks this company will experience is due to their lack of a cellphone app. The fact that they incorporate video into most of their songs it will be a little too heavy on the bandwidth for mobile phones to handle the stream. Another downfall is they only host artists that signed with EMI.
This can be a good thing as well because unlike Pandora, you can request specific songs or artists. EMI has some good artists, and what they lack in diversity, they make up for in quantity. They have been around since the dawn of recording (just about) and have been instrumental in many past technological advances in sound recording, but to quote Janet Jackson, what have they done for me lately?
On the other hand, I'm a pretty big Radiohead fan, and since they've put out 14 of their albums, 23 of their singles, and have 21 videos for a total of 363 tracks, I'll go to this site when I need a specific fix. If EMI has the artist you like, it's a great site for you, if you can handle the bandwidth. Otherwise, stick to a low streaming non-visual site like Pandora. If EMI comes out with a version that will play on the Wii, it would really fill a niche. While Finetune has a streaming Wii player, it's kind of a pain to navigate and getting the songs and style of music that you like is next to impossible.
There is one "fatherly" use for this site: putting baby to sleep using music. Because it allows more control over what plays, there's no chance your "lullaby" playlist will suddenly burst into Insane Clowne Posse, effectively setting nap-time back a day...or two. Here's a link you can use for some quiet time songs. Who knows, maybe it will cure the colicky baby...
