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PanamaPlaylists – Leaked Tech CEOs Spotify Profiles
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#42Palmer Luckey, I did not expect that. The guy is designing autonomous warfare stuff while listening to Vanessa Carlton.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Is that down to Spotify suggesting whatever is popular, or people having ordinary tastes? I think it's the typical "average stuff for the average person", people generally don't care that much about what music is playing, as long as it's within the range of "average" and it's catchy enough. Basically open up the player, play the first thing that looks good enough and then leave it there. Then it's called "mainstrea…
> Then it's called "mainstream" music for a reason, most people are OK with listening to it in the first place :) I think there’s bewilderment is mostly from these not being “mainstream” people.
> not being “mainstream” people
They're politicians, CEOs and "celebrities" (in one way or another), it doesn't get more mainstream than that, does it?
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Then it's called "mainstream" music for a reason, most people are OK with listening to it in the first place :) I think there’s bewilderment is mostly from these not being “mainstream” people.
> not being “mainstream” people They're politicians, CEOs and "celebrities" (in one way or another), it doesn't get more mainstream than that, does it?
They’re also nearly untouchable often disconnected from anything the mainstream would experience and experience things the mainstream never will.
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#45So the lesson is that one must become ultra-normie in music taste before one becomes a founder? I'm waiting for the PG essay to explain this.
Not to be too sarcastic, but it always kills me when people who pride themselves as being original and contrarian turn out to be total conformists. This seems to be very common among founders/vc’s as of late.
always have been, mate.
the nonconformist iconoclast disruptor meme is because that's what the market wanted to see, and most founders wanted that money.
now the luster is gone, and there is no need to put on a black turtleneck and pretend you're revolutionizing the world. now you need to hype your AI strategy and sound confident that you have some idea how that will play out.
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#46These are the most basic bitch playlists I've seen in my life. No wonder the Spotify algorithm is so shit.
> No wonder the Spotify algorithm is so shit. I guess you get what you play, none of those songs are recommended to me, and my Discover Weekly has maybe ~75% of music I like which is high enough to be useful for finding new stuff. But then I have been using Spotify for almost 20 years, might be why they're a bit better at recommending me music. But then you also consider other people's music taste "basic" so we alrea…
Well they probably consider many people's music taste basic because a lot of music consumers aren't actually "in to" music. They just want pop with catchy cycles, memorable lyrics, and na na na's. Anything that falls outside of that is too much exploration for them.
Most of these playlists are uninspired, but I never took CEO's to be big music heads anyway. Most CEO's are into basic entertainment because they deprioritize exploring it.
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#47These are the most basic bitch playlists I've seen in my life. No wonder the Spotify algorithm is so shit.
Better than Apple Music, at least in my memory, I haven't had Spotify for years. I have a suspicion that Apple Music just decides the next song based on the previous one that played, not your whole playlist or even the last n songs played.
Spotify does the same thing, resulting in a "radio station" playing the same fucking 10 songs over and over.
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#48How can we verify that these playlists are legit? I love the idea that JD Vance is listening to Justin Bieber and One Direction, but I’d like some more proof.
He has children, and this is what children listen to
This. My top YouTube music track is crab rave phonk. Because apparently toddlers love it on repeat.
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#49How can we verify that these playlists are legit? I love the idea that JD Vance is listening to Justin Bieber and One Direction, but I’d like some more proof.
He has children, and this is what children listen to
That’s what children listened to 15 years ago. I doubt that’s what they listen to now
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#50This is hilarious!
Dan Crenshaw — U.S. Congressman from Texas Ni**as in Paris
Karoline Leavitt — White House Press Secretary Run the World (Girls)
Marc Benioff — Salesforce CEO Billionaire
I’m disappointed to not see any thelonelyisland listeners though.