• mistrgamin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I stopped caring about online music charts once I found out how people bot their favorite artists to trending cuz they’re insecure in their own music tastes

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        1 year ago

        Corporate is trying to perfect the ear worm.

        But to me if music get stuck in my head, it means the music is just simplistic and repetitive. Qualities I do not enjoy in the slightest.

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      1 year ago

      people bot their favorite artists

      That’s less “people” and more “marketing departments”. So much mid-tier music gets blown up and then dropped overnight, as the promotion models change.

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        1 year ago

        nah there’s 100% people who go out of their way to shuffle through a single artists’ discography and every song they’ve been featured in 24/7. Hell, I found one right after reading this