> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.nightwater.email/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Let’s check in with the winner of the Night Water HitClips giveaway - URL: https://www.nightwater.email/hitclips-giveaway-winner/ - Published: 2022-04-27T03:00:44.000Z - Updated: 2024-01-22T16:13:37.000Z - Description: “I received a package in the mail from California with a HitClips player in it and a bunch of HitClips and now I am here, talking to all of you while you read this at night in your beds next to your glasses of water.” - Author: Adam Cecil - Tags: music, video, q&a At the end of [my musings on the HitClips player last August](https://www.nightwater.email/hitclips/), I suggested that it was time for them to make a comeback. These tiny plastic music players used cartridges loaded with 60-second song clips and blasted these tunes out of a single earbud—or, if you had the boombox, out of a surprisingly loud speaker. After I sent out my HitClips article, my friend Drew actually found a bunch of HitClips players and clips at Goodwill. One day, I opened my mailbox to find a box full of HitClips, my first time seeing the toy since, I don’t know, 2002? And after listening to many HitClip songs, I have to admit… I think it’s fine if HitClips stay in the past. When Drew suggested a HitClips giveaway for Night Water subscribers as part of a [crossover with his podcast Sleep With Me](https://www.nightwater.email/late-night-vibes-sleep-with-me/), I jumped at the opportunity to subject a random Night Water reader to the unique tonal qualities of the HitClips player. Dylan, the winner of the HitClips giveaway and Night Water’s 47th subscriber, was generous enough to share a few thoughts about HitClips. --- ### Who are you and what is your deal? Hey Night Water, I am Dylan and my deal is that I received a package in the mail from California with a HitClips player in it and a bunch of HitClips and now I am here, talking to all of you while you read this at night in your beds next to your glasses of water. ### Where were you and how did you feel when you found out you won the HitClips giveaway? I don't remember where I was but I do remember that I didn't know that I had entered to win, so I honestly wasn't sure if you were joking because you talk about HitClips kind of a lot and we had some interaction(s?) on Twitter about HitClips. Anyway I felt great. ### What’s it like to use the HitClips player? It's so fucking loud. It's impressive how much sound that plastic boombox speaker makes. I had no memory of what the player looked like or how it worked from the commercials so it was fun to figure out how to use it. I never had one as a kid because... honestly did anyone have one? Adam, did you have one?[¹](#footnote-1) I didn't know anyone who had HitClips. I just remember the commercials in between episodes of *Rocket Power*. ### Which song clip is your favorite? I really like "Hero" by Enrique Iglesias. The clip drops into the track subtly and then gets a chance to really build before super abruptly cutting off. Great clip, great hit. ### If they made a new HitClips player with contemporary tracks, would you get one? haha no. ### What is your ideal late night vibe? Lungs and sinuses full of carcinogenic green smoke, head pounding, little drunk, Nesquik in hand ([double chocolate](https://www.goodnes.com/nesquik/products/double-chocolate-low-fat-milk-14-fl-oz-bottle/?ref=nightwater.email)), on the N train back from Coney Island, with a bunch of friends, headed to 36th St to go eat Tacos el Bronco and then walk home and pass out after a huge glass of water. --- 1. I had one that clipped onto my belt. I’m pretty sure I had at least one Britney Spears song and a N\*SYNC clip. [↩](#footnote-anchor-1 "Jump back to footnote 1 in the text.")