Top genres: pop, dance/electronic, hip hop, indie, rock Top songs: “Meant to Be” by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line, “Do Right” by Glades, “What the Hell Happened to Us” by Quinn XCII, “She Loves Control” by Camila Cabello Top artists: Taylor Swift, Quinn XCII, Glades, Camila Cabello, Halsey Time spent listening to favorite artist: 95 hours (#noshame) My personal judgment of the blogger: needs more Indian musicįirst song listened to in 2018: “Meant to Be” by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line Tastebreakers playlist: breaking the tastesĬomments from the blogger: I’ve never felt more self-conscious about the fact that I almost purely listen to Indian music. Top genres: pop, Desi, indie, dance/electronic Top songs: “Enna Sona” by Arijit Singh, “Main Rang Sharbaton Ka” by Atif Aslam, “Samjhawan” by Arijit Singh, “Hawayein” by Arijit Singh, “Pehli Nazar Mein” by Atif Aslam Top artists: Pritam, Arijit Singh, Atif Aslam, The Piano Guys, Shreya Ghosal Time spent listening to favorite artist: 28 hours go eat a playlist uglyįirst song listened to in 2018: “Young” by The Chainsmokers My personal judgment of the blogger: henlo abby. His version of the song is from 1933, so that should be my oldest song and not whatever that song is by the Tornados. James Infirmary Blues” ad infinitum because of this video. Like I know for a fact that I went through a whole phase in October where I listened to Cab Calloway’s version of “St. Oldest song: “Telstar” by The Tornados (1962)Ĭomments from the blogger: This was a podcast year for me, so I wasn’t on Spotify as much, and when I was it was to listen to specific songs. Top genres: rock, indie, pop, hip hop, punk Top songs: “Here Comes Your Man” by Pixies, “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)” by Talking Heads, “Disorder” by Joy Division, “Spice Girl” by Amine, “Cough Syrup” by Butthole Surfers Top artists: Madvillain, Kid Cudi, The 1975, Amine, Death Grips Time spent listening to favorite artist: 5 hours After all, I want the smart home devices that will inevitably care for me in my old age to play music that I actually like.įor Funsies, here are the bloggers wrapped and then unwrapped (because I like that people get a little uncomfy when their music taste is judged):įirst song listened to in 2018: “m.A.A.d city” by Kendrick Lamar ( this was definitely because he was the half-time show at the college football national championship)įirst discovered artist of 2018: Jesse Boykins III Algorithms aren’t leaving any time soon, so before we get too reliant on them, it’s important that we try to fix them. Not just bad in the sense of “ lol WRONG” but also institutionally bad. We laugh and grumble about them when it comes to this kind of stuff but some algorithms are just bad. This is relevant to you because algorithms suck sometimes. But where is Janelle Monae’s Pynk, which I streamed at least 50 times over the course of a week, on my top 100 playlist? I don’t even recognize at least a third of the songs on that playlist. Then I remembered that 2018 was the year I began listening to podcasts a lot, so maybe I have just been replacing my Spotify Time with Podcast Time. I for one was a little irritated that my Spotify Wrapped was more a loose sampling than an overall snapshot of my listening habits. A common complaint this year (and last year) was that the so-called personalized stats were just wrong or only partially correct. It seems like people enjoy seeing their listening data broken down into pretty little slides, but it also seems like people often don’t agree with how the data represents them. On that very same day, I asked the bloggers to share their stats with me, because we are curious beavers who eat data. Spotify Wrapped day and the festivities surrounding it happened a long time ago.
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