2020-12-03 (Thursday)

@tristanf An algorithmically-generated fanzine for every one of the 5071 genres.

I don't actually want that but it seems like a next step for the machine-learning-curious.

@crouchingbadger @tristanf I keep remembering groups being interviewed in, say, the 1980s being all "We're not 'shoegaze', we don't want to be pigeonholed!" and thinking how quaint it was to have so few pigeonholes.

@minor9th Listen to this song that reminds you of that time you were sat indoors wishing you were out having dinner with friends! No, the other time. Not that one, the one before that but after the other one. No, not... never mind here's some Deep Progressive Korean Italiano Trap Folk Pop!

@minor9th I'm sure end-of-year things are even earlier this year. I know we all want 2020 to be over but still.

@tristanf Yeah on the one hand I find these tiny genres really useful for their playlists* but on the other it feels odd to say "this genre you've never heard of was your favourite!"

* But I'm increasingly distrustful of Spotify's algorithmic playlists, assuming they're now algo + payola.

Well Phil, I guess using their hundreds of niche genres is a great way to get people like you promoting Spotify everywhere.

Buy music from somewhere like bandcamp.com when you can, especially tomorrow when it's another all-money-goes-to-the-artists Friday.

My Spotify 2020 Wrapped thingy (or, The Music I Liked A Lot But Apparently Not Enough To Buy) tells me my most popular genre is Chamber Psych which, like others discovering this, means nothing to me reddit.com/r/Music/commen…

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