During elder daughter's last Christmas visit, she introduced me to Spotify's "Day Lists" (as opposed to "playlists" - naturally, it took me some time to pick that up).
They're often pretty nifty, based on rather random themes. Some are simply wonderful mixtures of unusual folk-tunes, or bracing Broadway musicals, or soaring choral works, or really strange and spooky selections.
I don't mind; it's the kind of music experience I'm looking for, in other words: new to me, but listenable. They often send me what they call "medieval music". It's usually early Renaissance mixed in with Celtic folk. As I said, they just make stuff up.
I get waaaay too many "day lists" with "Laurel Canyon" as a theme word, though. Don't mind that type of music, but I've heard most of it, so I'm battling the algorithms again, by listening to the more-off-the-wall things in self defense.
However, what am I supposed to think when I turn on the Spotify app and am informed: You listened to modern rock and pumpkin spice on Fridays in the afternoon. Here's some: father's day, labour day, jangle, heartland rock, and college.
This was in July, by the way.
Is it AI - or is it because Spotify is Swedish? (I think it's because they're Swedish. I had one or two Swedes as students in my teaching days. They were delightful enigmas.)
And then Spotify kept offering me "goblincore". What the hell is goblincore? A Google search seems to lead mostly to Reddit discussions. They're not sure, either. The playlist, which I saved, changes from day to day, and seems to be indie folk, with the occasional bit of jazz, classical music, and even British pop from the sixties.
I mean, it's fine, but what on earth, Spotify?
I'm not sure if the following video answers the goblincore question - I gather it's a spoof on "Cottagecore", something I don't quite get either, never having had a cottage - although this song may explain how people in Ottawa obtain their cottages....
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