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THE IPOD NANO was probably the best invention of my teenage life. I asked for one for Christmas when I was 10 years old and I remember finding it at the foot of the Christmas tree. It was the tiny, blue thing that was 4GB and could hold about 1,000 songs which blew my 10 year old mind.

From there I was hooked and would buy a new generation of iPod every couple of years. The iPod touch was always too expensive for me and the Shuffle couldn’t hold enough music so the Nano was my one true love (in as much as you can love a tiny music player).

I stuck by them as the incorporated video format and made it wider, when they changed the charging port and when they made it fully touch screen. I even supported them when they made it a stupid square for some reason. I just loved them.

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13 years on from when I got my first iPod, I’ve misplaced my iPod Nano 8th generation and it’s actually breaking my heart. I didn’t lose or break one iPod in my teens and yet in the space of 2 years, I’ve broken or lost 3 seperate ones (don’t judge me) and they’re getting much harder to find.

Haha remember the days when the reason you wanted an iPod is so you could play temple run and download CamWow😂😂

— Hannah (@hanxmaggie) May 23, 2018

You might all be screaming ‘THERE’S A THING CALLED SPOTIFY LOVE’ and that is absolutely true. However, there is something within in me that just refuses to use Spotify.

I don’t know if I don’t understand it or if I don’t trust it or if it’s just because I’m not willing to pay for it, but I’ve always been determined to hold onto my iPod for as long as I can.

Yes, there’s a lot of songs on my iTunes library that got there by *questionable* means and yes it’s awkward to get new music onto the bloody thing and yes you have to keep charging it but there’s something about the iPod Nano that is comforting. The first song I ever downloaded from iTunes was ‘Umbrella’ and I can’t quite let go of the comfort of that song that is still on my iPod to this day.

You don’t need to worry about draining your phone battery while listening to music and you don’t have to worry about creating playlists, you just stick on your headphones and hit shuffle. It’s the ease of it all. I’m basically an old man amn’t I?

So you can have your Spotify, your Deezer and your Apple Music. I will continue my struggle to replace my lost iPod (Apple don’t make the Nano anymore) and hold out on Spotify for as long as possible. I’m sure it’ll be totally worth it.

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