ToThe80sAndBeyond
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Playlist Length
0 days, 0 hours, 41 minutes
Playlist Followers
40
Source
Playlist Last Updated
July 9, 2017
Mood
Mixed Mood
Track Popularity Rating
Deep
Style
Varied
Average Release Decade
2010s
Main Genre:
Mixed
Reddit Info
Reddit Post
**Discover Weekly is turning your brain into a musical cyborg** 🎼🎼 I have been using Discover Weekly (DW) for 3.5 years now, which means listening to it straight through each week 3x-4x, and selecting the songs I believe really stand out to me. For the first year, the hit rate was pretty low, probably around 10%, but as Spotify learned my preferences and their own algorithms improved, I slowly noticed the frequency of songs I liked increase. 10 songs one week, 6 songs the next, then 20 songs (a 66% hit rate which is insane, though fairly unusual). And it isn't like I just add these songs and forget about them. I organize them, put them in playlists, demarcate them with a title of significance of that moment of my life and then listen to the playlist of my most recent acquisitions. The crazy thing? This playlists began to start sounding like albums. Each one had a distinct feel, (i.e. [ToThe80sAndBeyond](https://open.spotify.com/user/1233567934/playlist/7GwzXuYeNV4fWOpT3Lesfc?si=03DEhtreQhaLiKR3LyknDQ) was made from one week of very heavy 80s-revival music suggested by DW or [Now I'm Alive](https://open.spotify.com/user/1233567934/playlist/3FIJbHfs5R7a3i3TPgH9tc?si=MTjnCvQDS1WqOg5takqcHQ) is comprised of a few weeks of DW fielding me a lot of Desert Rock/Acoustic bangers). And each playlist has a beginning and end. In fact, I used to listen to my playlists on random until I found listening to them in order actually made the everything simply fall into place. By the end I found DW was responsible for about 80% of all the new music I loved. I found listening to albums, charts, "expert" recommendations to be almost completely without utility. DW was reaching its tendrils into the abyss and pulling out from obscura the music that spoke to me. Now, to be fair (yes I've seen Letterkenny) these songs aren't completely unknown. 3 years ago I would say most of DW recommendations that I saved had between 300,000 - 3 million listens, and these days it is more like 500,000-5 million. I am not the first to judge, and I rely on tens of thousands of Spotify subscribers to be the actual trailblazers, filtering out piles of trash to manageable mounds. But do I provide one last barrier, and, I believe, manage to block out the weaker and more shallow music that stochastically arises. I really believe that Discover Weekly is a form of cybernetics. It algorithmically narrows your options to a set of diverse songs and then lets the human element take over. It overcomes the final obstacle in AI: emotion, allowing the human vessel to provide the missing functionality. 🎼🎼 **tl;dr:** DW is a precursor [🎵👥🎵](https://open.spotify.com/user/1233567934?si=y2s548BlSK6mY-K2LTX2pg)
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24
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indieheads
Reddit Username
AndHeHadAName
Reddit Timestamp
5/31/19 14:19
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