Listening to a really cool interview with David Byrne. Whole interview is fun. Linking to the specific points in questions.
He’s discussing how streaming has affected how music gets perceived. He talks about how streaming strips music of its context, and how he LIKES that, because young people just discover artists they like, and build crazy diverse playlists based off of that. I found that a great perspective.
Gives me more hope for “Kids These Days”.
Interesting interview with a perspective I had never considered. Personally, I still won’t go near Spotify, but I won’t hate on it as much. I’m more fuddy duddy old fashioned. I use Amazon Music because it’s included with Prime. I build playlists of artists album in chronological order. I have never built a playlist of single songs by different artists. If I want to listen to The Warning for example, I want to listen to just The Warning.
I usually listen to just albums. I prefer to know that context.
I totally make playlists for certain things. I have mood playlists. I have playlists of of songs for DJ’ing dances.
I have playlists for what I practice on bass. One for the songs the band is working on. One of potential songs to pitch to them. One of things I want to just practice for myself.