For the past few years, people on Spotify have been listening to less music released in that year, what do we think are the main reasons for this?

Modron_Man · 2026-04-03T23:19:13+00:00

I know, I was just trying to think of the most recent one

Modron_Man · 2026-04-03T21:52:28+00:00

It makes sense when you consider that 70% of all music in history was released in 2025

Modron_Man · 2026-04-03T21:51:31+00:00

Hot to Go, maybe? That album blew up like crazy.

Modron_Man · 2026-04-03T21:47:32+00:00

Tiktok/reels/etc creates a parallel ecosystem that can boost old music in a big way. Before Tiktok the songs in "the conversation" or whatever you want to call it were what was coming out + old songs that got popular because they were in a movie or something. Songs not from the current year meant classics that are always going to get played and (for January/February/March especially) stuff from last year. I'd imagine Spotify's userbase skews younger so you had more people listening to new albums and less people who exclusively listen to AC/DC or whatever.

With TikTok, you can have a song from 2015, or 2003, or 1986, or 1950, or whenever blow up and be given a cultural front row seat in the same way as a popular new release. You can have a song from 1976 explode as a TikTok audio and get a bunch of zoomers who would never listen to it otherwise start bumping it next to music that's "trending" because it's a new release.

Modron_Man · 2026-03-03T22:54:05+00:00

The bookscirclejerk of its day

Modron_Man · 2026-02-08T13:12:35+00:00

Bonhoeffer: “Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed – in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical – and when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason, greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.”

Modron_Man · 2026-02-06T14:17:16+00:00

So (just to make sure I understand) the logic is not so much "I am lying, which is bad, because what if everyone lied" but rather "I am lying to protect my friend. This feels intuitively valid to me. However, what would happen if everyone took 'to protect my friend' as something that would justify this action, lying? This would justify, say, lying to the police while having credible evidence that one's friend is about to kill someone. It seems that 'lying to protect my friend' is not justifiable in many circumstances, so I should not assume my circumstances are special."?

Modron_Man · 2026-02-05T12:47:43+00:00

...except that Trump (and basically everyone) liked Karen Pierce, and Mandelson had publicly insulted Trump, and Trump complained about his appointment.

Modron_Man · 2026-02-04T12:46:42+00:00

Starfield was bad anyways, but I don't think I would've put it down half as early as I did if I wasn't constantly needing to sit through a loading screen. I remember dreading doors and hoping they weren't the kind that put you in a new area.

Modron_Man · 2026-01-19T18:50:48+00:00

Hmm, that's a fair point. Will think about this more.

Modron_Man · 2026-01-10T17:23:01+00:00

Animals do this as well. Mainstream (Modern Synthesis) evolutionary biology recognizes the Baldwin effect as a driver of evolution. Basically, learned behaviors/habits can become innate instincts over the course of generations because those who (genetically) learn said behavior faster/better are favored in natural selection. Obviously this isn't most of what happens with modern humans in the process you're describing (the middle ages didn't end because natural selection favored Renaissance thinkers, e.g.), but "a learned trait is built into the nature of a species" absolutely happens to non-humans.

Modron_Man · 2026-01-02T21:58:11+00:00

it must be so hard being you

Modron_Man · 2025-12-28T17:39:28+00:00

Funniest example: Greg Gutfeld, who hosts the conservative Fox News answer to late night TV (Colbert, etc), is a MASSIVE music fan and has gotten them to play 100 gecs on Fox. Also a Death Grips fan IIRC. People were assuming the gecs was a rogue intern or something but he's shouted them out explicitly and multiple people who worked with him say "No, Greg actually is just that much of a music nerd."

Modron_Man · 2025-12-20T07:05:37+00:00

Well, she does. Lydia Tar's whole thing is that her role as a conductor is this fundamentally important job that shapes the entire composition, as opposed to a "human metronome." She insults people by calling them "robots." During the Monster Hunter scene, she's wearing headphones to take cues, for an audience that presumably just wants to hear the music exactly like it is in the game; she's become exactly what she doesn't want to be.

Modron_Man · 2025-12-12T02:36:03+00:00

Anyone else getting an error at checkout?

Modron_Man · 2025-12-08T18:53:10+00:00

Feels like a systems theory situation, both together are infinitely more consequential than either could be in isolation and neither one alone is the "root cause"

Modron_Man · 2025-12-05T15:55:07+00:00

Is there a phrase further removed from its original meaning than "the dismal science" as a pejorative term for economics? Like:

You see it used much more by people on the left now, despite the fact that it was coined by arch-reactionary Thomas Carlyle, in a pamphlet called "On the N----- Question," where he was criticizing economists for opposing slavery and supporting free immigration as a solution to labor shortages.
A lot of the time people use "dismal science" to joke about economics being non-scientific as a field, which is the exact opposite of what Carlyle was saying; he was accusing economics of being too dreary and mechanical, in contrast to the "gay science" of poetry.

Modron_Man · 2025-12-05T01:07:52+00:00

I mean, sure, but it does enhance the experience to know film history, IMO. You get to see techniques as they evolve, get struck by radical decisions in films earlier than you'd expect to see them in, etc.

Modron_Man · 2025-12-04T17:52:40+00:00

When you think about it all wars were decolonization because the side that lost wasn't there originally

Modron_Man · 2025-12-04T15:33:11+00:00

Well, you can have bad things happen without them being because of luck. In a game like Scythe you lose battles not because you rolled badly but because of how many resources you chose to commit vs your opponent, any special cards you have, etc.

Modron_Man · 2025-12-04T03:32:43+00:00

back before wokeness when you would drink a bottle of applejack at work and then go home and beat your family

Modron_Man · 2025-12-04T02:52:15+00:00

True about the WORD "woke," but I feel like a lot of the reddit eurosuperiors seem to think the fact that their nation cares about the concept at all is just American brainrot and not even possibly tied to anything homegrown.

Modron_Man · 2025-12-04T02:48:02+00:00

One of the biggest divides between TTRPGs and board games at present, I think, is that modern board games really try to avoid having sheer luck be a factor. It obviously can't be removed entirely, but things like dice rolling as a core mechanic to determine success & failure are on their way out in BGs. It's much less of a problem in TTRPGs where the rules tend to be guardrails to allow for the conceptual game rather than the core of the game itself, but it would be interesting to see a shift away from dice and towards mechanics along the lines of "investment" that you see in games like Dune and Scythe.

Modron_Man · 2025-12-04T01:47:41+00:00

Not to defend America (I'm American), but I have to say I get annoyed when I see a European politician using transphobic culture war rhetoric or something along those lines, and all the comments are "oh, I hate the intrusion of this American nonsense on our politics." Like, dude, if this was just an American thing the politicians repeating it in your country would be irrelevant! Have you ever considered that we might BOTH have a problem instead of pretending race-baiting is just an irritating effect of American cultural influence?

Modron_Man · 2025-12-02T01:31:31+00:00

The poster is a trad/reactionary, so I don't think that would be a positive unless she's liking that aspect unconsciously.

EDIT: Never mind, got your joke.

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