Spotify as a kind of musical selection
I just got kind of motivated to listen to music of a certain kind, punk et cetera, and I stumbled unto this playlist of "noisy" music. It reminded me a lot of the "jazz for autumn" playlist in that it was all these different musicians that somehow all sounded very similar, they all seemed to operate within the same idea. Then I started thinking: you can hire Jazz combos and such for your wedding party, and I think there are like agencies that dispatch such groups and I am sure they have like homepages where you can see what they are like and so on and so forth. So I figured this "noisy" playlist is also kind of like a showcase of the "generic" bands they have on offer - indeed someone spoke about the "playlistification" of music; so we see, that Spotify doesn't really give us access to "more" music, but just to "different" music. You can scour Spotify and look for your favorite band, or you can just pick one from the "noisy" playlist and listen to their "This is" playlist - then if you think it is good you can listen to the albums. In this wise, music becomes more about moods than about class: more about different styles than about individual artists. Of course, it has always been that way, but we basically just want to belong to a certain crowd and in this way, we approach music in a way that is very much pre-occupied with what we might call a war, a significance: but everything is verily just volitility, absurdity, so basically we can approach everything in this professional, detached way: and so I do approve of a style of listening that is more or less oriented at "just listening" rather than "finding the best music" or "venerating idols". Indeed, we might see Spotify as a solution for the old style of music that was really about idols (or we might say, heroes) and the beginning of a world of music that is more about professionalism - you know, in a sense we are both upgraded and down-graded, just like past musicians used to be employed by kings and barons, verily, they just played the style dominant in the day, there were no genres: in fact, we may find that the genre we listen to, and the artist we choose, tells us nothing about who we are, but will provide us with some diversion, maybe - but there's no point to all this, it is just silliness. The idols will not go, mercifully I would say, but our pallette has extended to allow us to choose musicians not only for their class, but also for their mood, their act.
