iPod Gets The Royal Nod

frostilicus2 writes "Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of England seems to have taken quite an interest in technology recently. She's now getting hip and funky with an Apple iPod." From the article: "If the thought of the Queen trolling through Apple's online jukebox, iTunes looking for 'hits' is a little too much for the frontal lobes, the Sun assures its readers that, like most things, she probably has a footman to do it for her."

ok?

[Osmosis_Garett (712648)]

How is this news? Where's the page 3 girl?

Re:ok?

[njcoder (657816)]

" How is this news?

Dude, didn't you see it said Apple in the story? Geez.

Oh God we are one step away from

[nihilistcanada (698105)]

I dub thee Sir Jobs. The Royal Reality Distortion Field will be something to truly fear.

Re:Oh God we are one step away from

[Darvin (878219)]

It would never be Sir Jobs.

Rather Sir Steven, or Sir Steven Jobs. But since he's not a member of the commonwealth, it would only ever be Steven Jobs KBE.

I've always said...

[WFFS (694717)]

That there should be more Queen on iPods.

"I'm just a poor boy... nobody loves me..."

Sex Pistols

[ari_j (90255)]

Can any of you guys hack the iTunes Music Store so every listed song is actually God Save the Queen by the Sex Pistols, just for a day or two?

onepod?

[job0 (134689)]

shouldn't that be a onepod or maybe a wepod

pfft...

[pswayze (893054)]

It only costs me ten bucks and a bit of self-respect to get the royal nod in a back alley. And it's certainly pleasing to all of my lobes.

Awkward

[NilObject (522433)]

This would make for the most awkward iPod commercial, ever.

I mean, I'm listening to The White Stripe' "Seven Nation Army", and now I have this image of the Queen rocking out in some sort of a shuffle-type fashion in my head.

"Back and forth, through my mind!"

Re:Awkward

[mj_1903 (570130)]

and now I have this image of the Queen rocking out in some sort of a shuffle-type fashion in my head

Don't imagine it, live it [thesun.co.uk].

Re:Awkward

[killjoe (766577)]

Lots of people are making jokes but to me it's kind of profound. People speak of music as being universal and stories like this drive it home for me. Ok she is probably not listening to White Stripe but she is most certainly listening to Bach and maybe even some modern music from her youth. I even imagine she might listen to steely dan or joni mitchell.

Anyway the point is that she might very well be listening the same music as you are and that says something about the power of music to reach people of all ages, cultures, or strata in the society.

Royal iPod

[ndansmith (582590)]

First we have the U2 iPod. Now Apple can launch the HRH Queen Elizabeth II iPod. It will be royal blue. To cater to British sensibilities, the HRH QE2 iPod featuers and extra long queue.

Proper address

[reformhead (17180)]

It's Her Majesty. Not Her Royal Majesty. She is the Sovereign and does not need the Royal tag added because she IS Royal. Yanks have some difficulty with this, no doubt, but that's the way it is.

I hate it when people get her forms of address wrong. Kinda like calling Mr. Bush The Honorable President.

Re:Proper address

[debugdave (153189)]

yeah I totally hate it when they call the president the "honorable" president. Absolutely ridiculous.

Wrong

[Martin Spamer (244245)]

The official title is Her Royal Highness in the third person or Your Royal Highness in the second person.

However being a republican I would address her as 'Yo Beth' just to see the reaction on the faces of all the sycophants.

Amusing reply

[Conch (52381)]

I were thinking of posting an amusing reply but I will have my footman do it for me instead.

interesting.

[St. Arbirix (218306)]

I wonder if she pays royalties.

The Sun

[t_allardyce (48447)]

I think its probably about time to point out that The Sun is a brand of toilet paper with funny pictures and words printed on it to entertain while you take a dump. To quote it in with any seriousness outside the bathroom just isn't done.

Re:The Sun

[Tim Browse (9263)]

"You're Sun Readers, aren't you?"
"How did you know that?"
"You've sawn the wrong ends off your shotguns."

When the Crown does it, it's not piracy. :)

[argent (18001)]

We assume she is not searching the royalty free or pirated stuff.

The Queen does not need to engage in Piracy, She could simply issue Letters of Marque authorizing a Privateer to undertake the mission on Her behalf.

Re:Does She Need It?

[Minced (871651)]

"Mom, I want an i-Pod" "WHAT?!" "Come on mom...all the world leaders got one!" "Oh really now...*scornful*" "G.W and the Queen got one!" "I suppose if the USA and England went to war you would follow?" "Well o'course, if all the cool countries were doing it."

Re:Does She Need It?

[dangitman (862676)]

When I'm queen I want the footman to carry the whole stereo around for me.

She's probably too embarassed to have everyone hear Her Robbie Williams and Duran Duran collection out loud. Say, when is Her Highness' silhouette-dancing ad going to be released? Maybe she'll sell out to Sir Gates and appear at a conference screaming "Commoners, Commoners, Commoners!"

Re:The Queen on iTunes?

[91degrees (207121)]

Ah, but the Queen is technically above the law. If they try to sue, then she can just declare herself immune from the law.

Normally such irresponsible behaviour would cause a constitutional crisis, and probably require imediate abdication or abolision of the monarchy, but if it was against the record industry, I think a lot of people would see her point.

Re:Top quality journalism here...

[Tim Browse (9263)]

The only thing wrong is expecting any kind of journalism from The Sun, let alone 'top quality' journalism.

This is the sort of paper that uses bold and italics in its editorials, just to make sure you get the point.

Enough said, I think.

Re:Top quality journalism here...

[soliptic (665417)]

Better the Sun than the Mail.

The Sun is knowingly, amusingly and mostly-harmlessly lowbrow. Sure, it prints a load of rubbish, but it knows that just as well as we do, and nobody takes it too seriously. The Mail is poisonous, self-important and comes damn near to inciting hate crime imho.