(From top left, clockwise: Frank Sinatra, Daft Punk, Lady Gaga, Janelle Monae, Wondergirls, Nguyen Ngoc Ngan)
Warning: This blog post may have you swaying in your Herman Miller Aeron Chair, head bobbing back and forth like a hyphy teenie bopper at a Justin Bieber private concert, twirling like Elin Nordegre after she gets half. Proceed with caution.
“I listen to music every day, a lot of jazz – Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins. I also like Jay-Z and Beyoncé. I have an analog stereo that was hand built in Japan by a guy who makes a few systems a year. The aural experience is mind-blowing. Music helps me when I’m coding, which is still my priority. When you’re coding, you really have to be in the zone. I’ll listen to a single song, over and over on repeat, like a hundred times.”
– Matt Mullenweg (founder of WordPress and Automattic – Source: http://bit.ly/kzfNz)
Word Matt, word.
At the company, it is imperative we are in the zone while we are performing data entry and consistent maintenance of client system backends, link-building, processing new products through efficient quality assurance (QA) to name a few of our BPO services.
We go through countless lines of spreadsheet data, opening and closing tabs and browser windows like nobody’s business. The blazing click-clack of keyboards at the company almost becomes a hymn slowly pulling us towards a Matrix of our own making. To channel Michael Franti, we prefer to “Stay Human” and audio/music remains that (Inception) kick to make sure the top stops spinning at the end our dreams, as the metaphor goes.
Jennifer Yi (QA Supervisor) “listen[s] to TED, www.live365.com for pop, YouTube playlist for Korean music, and the random songs that Mark sends over.”
David Tang (Operations Manager) streams ESPN.
The Top 100 Breakup Songs are for Leanne Tran (QA Supervisor): http://bit.ly/aPxPtf
My Phan (QA Supervisor) “listen[s] to a list of Vietnamese ghost stories – all of Nguyen Ngoc Ngan’s stories.”
For Abigail Stratton (Project Supervisor): “ADULT CONTEMPORARY, ‘nuff said.”
Furthermore, here are a couple of the song playlists – from our various directors and supervisors – rocking on in our headphones, for your aural curiosity and indulgence. Hopefully these playlists will give you some good ideas on what you can listen to, to keep focused on your core competencies, to be productive so you can maximize profits and take your business to the next level. Get to iTunes, get to Rhapsody and Pandora and most importantly, get back to work! Enjoy.
Mark Tran (Managing Director):
I Run This – Birdman featuring Lil Wayne
Loyalty – Birdman featuring Lil Wayne and Tyga
Number 1 Stunna – Big Tymers
Still Fly – Big Tymers
This is How We Do It – Big Tymers
Dear Mama (Part 2 Remix) – 2Pac and Eminem
All Eyez on Me – 2Pac
Eye – Smashing Pumpkins
Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart – Alicia Keys
Fallin – Keahiwai
Alone – Heart
Trưa Vắng – Mỹ Linh
Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money) – Pet Shop Boys
Blurry – Puddle of Mud
All I Need – Radiohead
Fly Me to the Moon – Frank Sinatra
I Miss You – Simple Plan
Love Story – Taylor Swift
Sweet November – Troop
I Started a Joke – Bee Gees
Tham Hoang (Project Supervisor):
Bad Romance – Lady Gaga
Lặng thầm một tình yêu – Hồ Ngọc Hà ft. Thanh Bùi
Party in the U.S.A. – Miley Cyrus
Mãi mong chờ – Trà My Angel
Women Generation 2 – Seeya, Davichi, Ji Yeo
Hoàng Tử Của Lòng Em - Vy Thúy
Sascha Spiegel (Project Supervisor): The special thing about the playlist is that I usually just listen one song per day only. Meaning, I listen a song until I don´t like it anymore (I usually just listen to max. 2 different songs per day).
Buttons – Pussycat Dolls, Snoop Dogg (Remix)
The Next Episode – Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg
Shoot Down the Stars – Gym Class Heroes
Stronger – Inez (Remix)
Beautiful Dangerous – Slash, Fergie
Calle Ocho – Pit Bull
Dream On – Depeche Mode
Break your Heart – Taio Cruz
We Be Burning – Sean Paul
Temperature – Sean Paul
Get Busy – Sean Paul
Get Low – Lil Jon
Elevator – Flo Rida
Krazy – Pitbull, Lil Jon
Gasolina – Daddy Yankee
Fatti un Giro – Articolo 31
El Jefe – Daddy Yankee
Jimmy Tran (Project Supervisor): My work playlist is also my gym playlist. Minimal, repetitive lyrics so I can focus on my actions more than my thoughts. Relentless drums, lots of them – going somewhere, with velocity, lots of it – intermingled with songs of calm, like taking the 5-minute break after a 30-minute run. Straight contemporary.
Tightrope – Janelle Monae
Jai Ho – AR Rahman
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger – Daft Punk
Sex, Love & Money – Mos Def
Movie Finale – Madlib
Tiger Phone Card – Dengue Fever
Sni Bong – Dengue Fever
Morning After Dark – Timbaland feat. Nelly Furtado & SoShy
Crystalised – XX
Day ‘N’ Nite - Kid Cudi
Dragon Queen – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
In the Space – Janko Nilovic
Kids – MGMT
Neighborhood #2 (Laika) – Arcade Fire
Daft Punk is Playing at my House – LCD Soundsystem
I Feel It All – Feist
Flowers – Dengue Fever
Idioteque – Radiohead
Young Folks – Peter Bjorn & John
Thao Pham (Project Supervisor): I can listen to whatever but just the melody – if i care about the lyrics, I can’t concentrate. Yeah, sometimes I need some loud songs from Rihanna or Rock to wake me up. I just listen to slow songs when I relax – usually not at work, or just at break time.
Fields of Gold – Eve Cassidy
Have I Told You Lately – Rod Stewart
I’m Yours – Jason Mraz
Can’t Smile Without You – Barry Manilow
Do you know where you’re going to? – Mariah Carey
The special thing about the playlist is that I usually just listen one song per day only. Meaning, I listen a song until I don´t like it anymore
The special thing about the playlist is that I usually just listen one song per day only. Meaning,
My work playlist is also my gym playlist. Minimal, repetitive lyrics so I can focus on my actions more than my thoughts. Relentless drums, lots of them – going somewhere, with velocity, lots of it – intermingled with songs of calm, like taking the 5-minute break after a 30-minute run. Straight contemporary.
Furthermore, here are a couple of the song playlists – from our various directors and supervisors – rocking on in our headphones, for your aural curiosity and indulgence. Hopefully these playlists will give you some good ideas on what you can listen to, to keep focused on your core competencies, to be productive so you can maximize profits and take your business to the next level. Get to iTunes, get to Rhapsody and Pandora and most importantly, get back to work! Enjoy.
——————————————————————
amiya