Did Your Spotify Wrapped Place You In Burlington, Berkeley, or Cambridge? You May Be Gay
Did Your Spotify Wrapped Place You In Burlington, Berkeley, or Cambridge? You May Be Gay
Well, I was placed in Mexico, but I do enjoy a good ol dick in the ass, what does that make me?
If you get it every time you want it, that makes you a happy person.
Inconclusive. We need more data on Mexico's listening stats before we can truly say.
Chaflán?
I was placed in Berkeley. I'm not gay but maybe my taste in music is.
It gave me Burlington. #1 listened artist last year: The Beastie Boys. I sometimes think its less artificial intelligence and more a random number picker.
My top genre was "indie québécois" and it placed me in Québec, so it's at least smart enough to figure that out.
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.
Basically it's a year in review of your Spotify listening
I was thinking that it wrapped place, but "you" did not compute.
I'm gay, and I got Portland
Also Portland!
cool, do you know that other guy?
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
Helsinki, Finland.
Brother!
A metalhead spotted
Do you by chance listen to a lot of death metal?
A lot yes, but more Black Metal.
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".
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.
Fort Collins, CO also
Same. Seems a weird choice, but ok Spotify
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.
My wife and I share an account. We got Cambridge. Good thing she came out as bi or else we would be having a strange conversation soon
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?
Seeing "Gay Olympics" made me go "wut?", so of course I clicked the link, and it immediately made sense.
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
All of my friends who listen to sad lesbian music got Burlington or Berkley.
Which American band is that?
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.
Well let's go find out if I'm gay.
Edit: Nope, not gay unfortunately.
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.
Hahaha I was assigned Burlington by this year's wrapped. Guess I'm moving to the lesbian commune out in Vermont.
Pittsburgh
Yep, I got Burlington with The Mountain Goats, Fleet Foxes, and Julia Jacklin.
I'm a straight, cis guy but my friends often tell me I listen to 'sad boi' music so 🤷🏽.
I see the gay agenda is proceeding as planned
Mine put me in Pittsburg. I've never even been there! But I can take a guess as to why... I like CKY 🤣
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
Vancouver.
San Francisco. Apparently progressive trance is popular there? Idk
I have an account that was used for very limited streaming to a couple of artists. Spotify placed it at Estonia for some reason. None of the artists I listened to are even close to the general area.
It's not based on the artist's locations, but where the listeners for the artists are.
One of the top artists you're listening to prob has a lot of listeners in Estonia
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.
I also got Boulder with top 3 of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Portugal. The Man, and Flatbush Zombies
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 Eugene, OR, which seemed pretty accurate. Seattle, where I actually live, seems more accurate, but I guess not. For anyone curious, my most listened genres were alternative rock, rock, post grunge....
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.
I got Edmonton, Canada
Halifax, Canada for me. I don't know what that means
Kelowna BC 👌
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 personally cannot imagine having my whole collection depend on a service like this. I use musical streaming for discovery (on free plans), and the actual collection is all local.
Also I use Yandex Music because its recommendations just work for me. Tried Spotify several times but the algorithm just was consistently not getting it. Not to mention it wanted you to enable DRM and was frustratingly slow compared to other applications I use.
Not needing a dedicated mp3 player
Well, and Spotify doesn't even give you such an option on the other hand. Only desktop and smartphone, probably wouldn't allow one that is perma-offline, and only in the official proprietary app/webapp.
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 removed about them not giving over revenue or whatever but then torrent your music and don't buy any....
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 conveniently download tracks from Yandex Music from Inspect -> Network. What is not there, I get from Youtube. I appreciate streaming for music discovery (Spotify in particular was meh for that though), but having my actual collection just there and not locally? I can't really even comprehend that tbh, that seems limiting and inconvenient, not to mention lack of ownership.
I’m paying artists more through Spotify premium than you are through torrenting their music 🤷♂️