Did Your Spotify Wrapped Place You In Burlington, Berkeley, or Cambridge? You May Be Gay
3 years ago by return2ozma to c/technology
Yeah but it was attached to a woman so I’m still gay
Huh? How?
Well if a woman does sexual acts on another woman it’s considered gay
Well, I was placed in Mexico, but I do enjoy a good ol dick in the ass, what does that make me?
I was placed in Berkeley. I'm not gay but maybe my taste in music is.
Bozeman, Montana.
Fine with me, that's where Zefram Cochrane launched the first human-built warp vessel.
Me too, and I missed that reference, shame on me. However Spotify said it was because I like both rock and blues
Now it’s head-canon that Spotify called me a Trekkie! It even fits with all the rest of you who are apparently learning you’re gay
I listen to alt rock, classic rock, blues and hip-hop. Definitely similar mixes.
I find it wild that they'd include such a little city like Bozeman in the list.
This headline broke my brain. I know what Spotify is but not "Spotify Wrapped" so I kept reading it like my Spotify had wrapped something but "Place" next to it just would not compute.
I'm gay, and I got Portland
Also Portland!
Oh, you're that kind of gay... 😒
I got Portland too!! I'm bi but I mostly listen to Spotify at work where almost everyone else is gay haha
Curious what's in your top artists? I have The Midnight, Kalax, Timecop1984, and other Retrowave/Synthwave type music and got Seattle, but I live near Portland.
They placed me in Portland based on the Smoking Popes, The Jesus Lizard, and Flipper
It said people in Portland tend to be fans of those bands
I got Burlington! I'm not gay as far as I'm aware but whenever someone asks me what kind of music I like in the future, the answer will be "gay music".
I was placed in Salt Lake City, Utah. I guess I'm Mormon?
You guess? Statistically, you are so Mormon, Spotify knows what kind of underwear you have on.
Fort Collins, Colorado for me
Bozeman, MT for me, apparently because I listen to a fair bit of Jason Isbell and other new-ish alt-country and Americana. Despite the fact that none of my top 5 artists are alt country, the rest of my listening is apparently eclectic enough that nothing else really came close.
I would have thought that having 60-70% of my listening all in a small cluster of esoteric doom-metal-related subgenres would have placed me somewhere with some sort of a metal scene, but apparently not.
It's kind of interesting to see all the weird correlations Spotify has pulled out of thin air. Apparently Fort Collins listens to a lot of Sleep Token, Brandi Carlile, and Jacob Collier.
Out of curiosity what bands did it use for your example?
Also do yourself a favor and listen to Sleep Token and Jacob Collier.
Specifically:
For Sleep Token: https://youtu.be/uU5vVT_Cp7c?si=8BQSDhNCxGOAHjsr or https://youtu.be/44gbx5VEYPY?si=XNASMTOMohopmIhf
Jacob Collier: https://youtu.be/IQvzX0Z3HE4?si=s_C9g57JH69gaKYj and https://youtu.be/nspqYGz-Z1s?si=yleeBaKox1Cxm8yW
I listen to a mix of classic rock, alt rock, blues and hip-hop and it gave me Bozeman as well.
Technically bi (though my tastes lean gay), I was put in Glasgow for listening to a lot of Steps and CHVRCHES... Given that Glasgow was on the running to host the Gay Olympics this year I guess it could be a close equivalent?
I'm gay and I was somewhere in Germany. Mainly due to the black metal and one American band that is insanely popular in Germany for some reason.
So much so that they recorded their live 20 year anniversary somewhere there
Yeah, I guess I could have said their name lol. Boysetsfire. I think they're from Delaware originally. They were political melodic hardcoreish at the beginning so I still jam their first few records hard. But they have a huge following in Germany.
It never gave me a city. It worked for my partner. I'm kinda pissed I wasted my time on this.
Provo, USA?
This guy listens to only imagine dragons and neon trees
Hey that’s what I got! But I’m admittedly a massive Taylor Swift fan.
Pittsburgh
Hahaha I was assigned Burlington by this year's wrapped. Guess I'm moving to the lesbian commune out in Vermont.
Vancouver.
Pittsburgh here too! Mine is because of from ashes to new, beartooth, and point north. An interesting selection I didn't even realize I've been listening to
San Francisco. Apparently progressive trance is popular there? Idk
My wife got Oslo, Norway and her top artists were Spanish music and the most poppiest of American pop music. Is cumbia a popular genre in Norway?
Oh ok. Either way, I don't think any of my top artists has a lot of fans there. lol. But if spotify says so, then so be it.
Edit: I use that account to test music from artists that I manage the distribution for. So I can literally see the demographics of listeners from the distribution platform and Estonia is not even in the top 20 of countries where listeners come from.
Did you feel foolish for subscribing to...fucking anything?? points to the Jolly Roger
No, I don't feel foolish for having basically humanity's entire music library available to me on a service.
When I used to pirate off SoulSeek I was a lot more limited in what I listened to, but Spotify is more than just a music service as it acts as a reliable way to discover new and old music to your liking.
Piracy is a service problem, and Spotify is a good service.
No. No it isn't.
Ibiza for me.
I got Boulder, CO for Foxygen, Broken Bells, and Blind Pilot.
Portugal., heck yeah!
I got Seattle which is great because I already live in the PNW. Apparently I've already found my people. My wife got Oslo, Norway after listening to a bunch of pop and Spanish music.
I got Seattle and my top artists were primarily in the Retrowave/Synthwave/Vaporwave genres and one rap (Equipto).
Freiburg im Breisgau. Wrapped called me an Alchemist. And I was in the top 3 of listeners for Sabaton this year.
I got Helsinki, Finland for Battledragon, Brother Firetribe, and Velvet
Got the same, Helsinki Finland but for Carpenter Brut and other synth artists.
Nope. Leuven, Belgium, for some reason lmao
Convenience, not needing a dedicated MP3 player, music discovery via algorithms, being able to play stuff you haven't already downloaded (ex: playing music at a gathering with friends is a lot more fun when anyone can just request basically any song imaginable and load it within seconds). These are my personal "excuses" anyway.
I don't and have never paid for Spotify with the idea I was supporting artists in doing so, but I still find it kinda funny that artists not getting paid well is your justification for not paying at all. Like I said I'm under no illusion that any artist I listen to is getting a significant payout from my streaming, and I'm very pro-piracy as well, but I do support artists I like through direct album/ticket/merch sales, or even via Patreon. Some of these artists I probably never would have discovered if it weren't for my addiction to the Discover Weekly playlist Spotify spits out for me. I wish more people would do this though, especially for smaller acts.
Also just an aside, but I feel like toning down the snark might get your point across better.
I mean my thing is like how much music do you need to have "on you" at all times? I've got 130 mp3s on my phone and that's just under half a gig. So you can have an easy 250 songs (16 hours worth) for just a gigabyte of local storage. It's pretty easy to download junk and if you really like an artist guess what, you already have all your music locally so when you get a tasty wav not a single thing has to change about how you listen to music.
I think we just have two very different use cases. I've used MP3 players and SD cards on smartphones in the past and for me streaming is such an upgrade.
Dicovering new artists or albums would mean having to cull something else from my collection (or upgrade storage, which isn't really always feasible/practical). Now, it's as simple as right clicking and adding to a playlist. I can jump from Wu-Tang to The Mountain Goats to that one band that's coming into town I might want to check out to fucking Crazy Frog if I feel so inclined. Sometimes I want Jack Johnson, sometimes I want Louis Armstrong, sometimes I want The Who.
I don't think I've listened to any of these artists for any particular amount in the past year or so, so why would I have them downloaded? But after listing them I might just go make a somewhat eclectic Spotify playlist.
Well I'm not like against Spotify and whatever else. I do use YouTube for what you are talking about but like my daily music, the stuff I want to like actually listen to when I feel like listening to music. Hell yeah that stuff is downloaded. I'm not tryna listen to Crazy Frog all the time, only when I'm feeling crazy.
As for storage space, I really just don't think that's a problem nowadays. Course since it's hard as fuck to get a micro SD card in a phone these days you can be stuck with whatever amount the manufacturer gave you but even then 2gb worth of space is 32hours worth of music. That's a entire day and a half of listening to stuff before anything repeats. I honestly just can't imagine the kind of person to cycle through music frequently enough where that's a problem.
250 songs would bore the fuck out of me after a couple days if even it lasts that long.
My current 'main' playlist has over 4K songs on it and they're all from one genre. My liked songs alone has over 1K songs. In the last year, I listened to over 23K different tracks.
Maybe you're okay with just a handful of songs. That's fine, but isn't going to work for everyone.
250 songs will get stale pretty damned quickly. Back in the day I had a 4GB iPod Nano and iPod adapter in my car and would very quickly start hearing the same songs over and over. You could always swap out to a new playlist but where are you going to find new content/recommendations without putting in a ton of work?
10 a month to rip unlimited 320 mp3s of anything they have on the service. Seems like a pretty good "excuse" to use it for me.
Torrenting music is bullshit, soulseek is much better but still has massive gaps. Unless you are a part of a good private tracker then the Spotify price is a fucking bargain for all the files you could have......
Also you bitch about them not giving over revenue or whatever but then torrent your music and don't buy any....
Maybe you misunderstand when I say torrenting music is bullshit, what I mean is that unless you are on a private tracker or only want mainstream shit then you won't find much torrenting. It is a bullshit method of music piracy for anything outside mainstream when using public trackers.
I don't even try and make out like I don't use all the methods I list, you want to pirate music and I point out that for not a lot of money you can actively pirate what you like from them and then still support the more niche or local interests you have with the like of bandcamp.
I also try and give back to the pirate music community in the form of adding everything I rip to my soulseek shares so lots of other people can access and share it. That is what piracy should be about, sharing that love.
You sound like the kind of person whose average share ratio on a torrent is way below 1.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
I have zero issues with piracy and have a gigantic media server full of pirated content but I don't see how you square "company being hostile to artists and revenue sharing" with "I better pirate this music instead"
I subscribe to Spotify because it's convenient as fuck and has 99.9% of the music I want to listen to (and podcasts). Pirating music is a huge pain in the ass these days even with stuff like lidarr and private trackers.
I’m paying artists more through Spotify premium than you are through torrenting their music 🤷♂️
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I'm pretty sure I'd know already if I was gay.
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