Nancy Sinatra – "Bossman" (2004)

Winter, summer, fall

Passes us by

Both you and I

My Sirius/XM subscription allows me to listen to broadcasts of New York Yankees games – and the games of every other major-league baseball team – while driving.

My car has a feature called “Personal Assistant,” which works the same way Siri works on an iPhone and Alexa  works on Amazon devices.  You can ask it what the weather forecast is, or get directions to your destination, or tell it what radio station you’d like to listen to, and it repeats your request back to you before executing it.  (You can set the Personal Assistant to speak in a male or female voice.  In my old car, I was able to get the female voice to speak with a British accent – I wish I could get my current car to do that as well.)

I’ve noticed that when I say “Play Sirius/XM New York Yankees baseball,” the Personal Assistant says “Sirius/XM New York Yankees baseball” – indicating that it understood my voice command – but it always takes me to the New York Mets broadcast instead.  When that happens, I have to hit the button on my car’s “infotainment” touch screen that takes me to the next channel – which is the Yankees channel.

Recently, I decided to try a different tactic.  I asked my car to “Play Sirius/XM Yankees baseball.”  The Personal Assistant responded by saying “Sirius/XM Oakland Athletics baseball,” but took me to the Yankees channel.

What do you think?  Should I take my car into the dealer, tell them about this, and ask them to fix it?  The car is still under warranty, so it wouldn’t cost me anything – although it might make my service advisor think I’m a total douchebag.  (Which is not a big deal to me – a lot of people already think I’m a total douchebag . . . probably because I am a total douchebag a lot of the time.)

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“Bossman” was released on Nancy Sinatra’s eponymous 2004 album:

That album includes songs written by Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Jarvis Cocker (Pulp), and Morrissey (the Smiths) – all of whom appear on the album.  If you had asked me which musicians were the least likely to collaborate with Nancy Sinatra, those three would have been very high on my list – yet there they are, big as life and twice as ugly.

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