Spotify Wrapped was spot on with regard to my personality. Who needs therapy?
As followers of GREAT DEBATE know, I’ve posited that music – what you listen to – can be insight into who you are. Along with what you read and watch.
Spotify, the streaming music platform/service just sent out their year-end review of what, who, and how much, I listened to in 2023. It’s fascinating and spot on. Let’s get into it.
The Data
is broken down into many categories as well as comparisons. As most algorithms are.
Time devoted to music.
I was in the top 6% w/r/t how much I listened to music– 44, 812 minutes! That computes to 31 days non-stop. Said another way, I listened to music 10% of all my time from January through October of 2023.
Genres
I listened to most were: Singer songwriter, New Americana, Rock, Country, Ectofolk.
Wtf! Two of those I’d never heard of. Anyone?
There were 53 genres in all. Because of that, Spotify informed me that maybe I should move to Missoula, Montana. Because along with the genres, those folks and I listen to many of the same artists.
[Yellowstone, yeah, okay. I get it. Maybe I should move there?]
Artists
I listened to most were: Waylon Jennings, Bruce Cockburn, Roy Orbison, Watchhouse, and J.J. Cale. Anyone? guess my age? Furthermore, I listened to 646 different artists.
Songs
I listened to most were Bruce Cockburn’s All The Diamonds, and Waylon Jennings’s Waymore’s Blues. Moreover, in all, I listened to 1,775 songs. Alright. That said there is this:
At the start of each new year I make a playlist. Furthermore, that’s pretty much the only thing I play throughout the year. I add songs as the year progresses. Consequently, the playlist becomes a musical journal of the year. That’s how much I love music.
With that, Spotify does make recommendations, and sometimes I add them to the playlist. In 2023 I made two playlists: THE BLUE RIVER CAFE, and THE LAST CHANCE CAFE. And but so, that impacts what Spotify “knows” about who I am. It’s sort of a closed loop.
Analysis and Conclusion
is Spotify spot on? Because they infer a personality based upon your music preferences. Regarding me, they designated me as a DARK, ROMANTIC, HERO! Okay, that fits, Psych-girl would likely agree.
How-about you? What do you think?
Okay, as a caution, I’ve started a new playlist for 2024, THE MYSTERY CAFE. Spotify, nor Google, can identify a song, or the artist, of a song I love.
So there is that.
The song is, “I’m at the mercy of love”. The singer/songwriter is female. A solo, acoustic guitarist. The genesis is around 2004.
I have it recorded on a cassette playlist I made. Back-in-the-day.
So there is that.
Anyone?
That was meant to be CANNOT identify the song. Anyway …
It seems I am a trope – the Dark Romantic Hero. Examples would be 1) John Dutton of Yellowstone. 2) Jesse Stone of Paradise. 3) Harry Bosch of LA.
Yeah, bad boys fighting bad men and crime, against all odds, with an attraction to and for beautiful women.
Oh the fantasy. But in the real world, the bad men (and women) often win.
So I looked up “Americana” and “Ecto Folk” music. Okay. They are hybrids. Yes, all my favorite artists fit into those genres.