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Did Your Spotify Wrapped Place You In Burlington, Berkeley, or Cambridge? You May Be Gay

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨return2ozma@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.them.us/story/spotify-wrapped-sound-town-burlington-berkeley-cambridge-you-may-be-gay

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  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure I’d know already if I was gay.

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    • funkajunk@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I dunno, you ever sucked a dick?

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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah but it was attached to a woman so I’m still gay

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      • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Nope. Never saw the appeal.

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  • electrogamerman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, I was placed in Mexico, but I do enjoy a good ol dick in the ass, what does that make me?

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    • elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you get it every time you want it, that makes you a happy person.

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    • tehcooles@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Inconclusive. We need more data on Mexico’s listening stats before we can truly say.

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    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Chaflán?

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  • tiredofsametab@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This headline broke my brain. I know what Spotify is but not "Spotify Wrapped" so I kept reading it like my Spotify had wrapped something but "Place" next to it just would not compute.

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    • Hexarei@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Basically it’s a year in review of your Spotify listening

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    • MxM111@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I was thinking that it wrapped place, but "you" did not compute.

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  • Purple_drink@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was placed in Berkeley. I’m not gay but maybe my taste in music is.

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    • Blackout@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It gave me Burlington. #1 listened artist last year: The Beastie Boys. I sometimes think its less artificial intelligence and more a random number picker.

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      • Evkob@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        My top genre was “indie québécois” and it placed me in Québec, so it’s at least smart enough to figure that out.

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  • LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m gay, and I got Portland

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    • DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh, you’re that kind of gay… 😒

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    • agnostictofu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Also Portland!

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      • DemBoSain@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        cool, do you know that other guy?

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    • quotheraven404@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I got Portland too!! I’m bi but I mostly listen to Spotify at work where almost everyone else is gay haha

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    • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Curious what’s in your top artists? I have The Midnight, Kalax, Timecop1984, and other Retrowave/Synthwave type music and got Seattle, but I live near Portland.

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      • LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They placed me in Portland based on the Smoking Popes, The Jesus Lizard, and Flipper

        It said people in Portland tend to be fans of those bands

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  • NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Cool let me check mine. Oh wait… I deleted my Spotify account because it’s entirely pointless to pay $10 a month to a service that is actively hostile towards artist and sharing the revenue they generate.

    VPN > Torrent > Backup Drive > USB/MP3 player

    Not only can I plug in a usb almost anywhere but mp3 is such a wildly accepted format I’m pretty sure I can stick it jn the back of most TVs and get my music to work. Failing all that I’ll just use a portable speaker. There is no excuse to consistently subscribe to something like Spotify.

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    • Evkob@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Convenience, not needing a dedicated MP3 player, music discovery via algorithms, being able to play stuff you haven’t already downloaded (ex: playing music at a gathering with friends is a lot more fun when anyone can just request basically any song imaginable and load it within seconds). These are my personal “excuses” anyway.

      I don’t and have never paid for Spotify with the idea I was supporting artists in doing so, but I still find it kinda funny that artists not getting paid well is your justification for not paying at all. Like I said I’m under no illusion that any artist I listen to is getting a significant payout from my streaming, and I’m very pro-piracy as well, but I do support artists I like through direct album/ticket/merch sales, or even via Patreon. Some of these artists I probably never would have discovered if it weren’t for my addiction to the Discover Weekly playlist Spotify spits out for me. I wish more people would do this though, especially for smaller acts.

      Also just an aside, but I feel like toning down the snark might get your point across better.

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      • Traister101@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I mean my thing is like how much music do you need to have “on you” at all times? I’ve got ~130 mp3s on my phone and that’s just under half a gig. So you can have an easy 250 songs (~16 hours worth) for just a gigabyte of local storage. It’s pretty easy to download junk and if you really like an artist guess what, you already have all your music locally so when you get a tasty wav not a single thing has to change about how you listen to music.

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      • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I personally cannot imagine having my whole collection depend on a service like this. I use musical streaming for discovery (on free plans), and the actual collection is all local.

        Also I use Yandex Music because its recommendations just work for me. Tried Spotify several times but the algorithm just was consistently not getting it. Not to mention it wanted you to enable DRM and was frustratingly slow compared to other applications I use.

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    • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      10 a month to rip unlimited 320 mp3s of anything they have on the service. Seems like a pretty good “excuse” to use it for me.

      Torrenting music is bullshit, soulseek is much better but still has massive gaps. Unless you are a part of a good private tracker then the Spotify price is a fucking bargain for all the files you could have…

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      • NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh fuck off with that bullshit. At least I come right out and admit what I do. Unlike you, I’m not going to sit around and shill services for a company that pretends it’s trying to do the right thing while actively working to fuck over the small artists trying to eke out a living on their platform.

        I don’t give two fucks if Kanye West isn’t getting his pool upgrade until next year because I torrented his latest bullshit album.

        The people most deserving of my money are the local and small artists that are trying to turn their passion into something more than a hobby.

        I don’t torrent their music because I can’t and it’s more rewarding to buy it from someone who is putting all their heart and soul into their work.

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    • spez_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nerd

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      • NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        NERD!

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    • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I have zero issues with piracy and have a gigantic media server full of pirated content but I don’t see how you square “company being hostile to artists and revenue sharing” with “I better pirate this music instead”

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      • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I conveniently download tracks from Yandex Music from Inspect -> Network. What is not there, I get from Youtube. I appreciate streaming for music discovery (Spotify in particular was meh for that though), but having my actual collection just there and not locally? I can’t really even comprehend that tbh, that seems limiting and inconvenient, not to mention lack of ownership.

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    • phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m paying artists more through Spotify premium than you are through torrenting their music 🤷‍♂️

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  • Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Helsinki, Finland because apparently I’m metal as fuck.

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    • tuxtey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Brother!

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    • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A metalhead spotted

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    • Thteven@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do you by chance listen to a lot of death metal?

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      • Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        A lot yes, but more Black Metal.

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  • skeeter_dave@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was placed in Salt Lake City, Utah. I guess I’m Mormon?

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    • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You guess? Statistically, you are so Mormon, Spotify knows what kind of underwear you have on.

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  • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I got Burlington! I’m not gay as far as I’m aware but whenever someone asks me what kind of music I like in the future, the answer will be “gay music”.

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  • I_Comment_On_EVERYTHING@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fort Collins, Colorado for me

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    • NielsBohron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Bozeman, MT for me, apparently because I listen to a fair bit of Jason Isbell and other new-ish alt-country and Americana. Despite the fact that none of my top 5 artists are alt country, the rest of my listening is apparently eclectic enough that nothing else really came close.

      I would have thought that having 60-70% of my listening all in a small cluster of esoteric doom-metal-related subgenres would have placed me somewhere with some sort of a metal scene, but apparently not.

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      • I_Comment_On_EVERYTHING@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s kind of interesting to see all the weird correlations Spotify has pulled out of thin air. Apparently Fort Collins listens to a lot of Sleep Token, Brandi Carlile, and Jacob Collier.

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      • canis_majoris@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I listen to a mix of classic rock, alt rock, blues and hip-hop and it gave me Bozeman as well.

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    • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Same. Seems a weird choice, but ok Spotify

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    • retro@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fort Collins, CO also

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  • dumples@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My wife and I share an account. We got Cambridge. Good thing she came out as bi or else we would be having a strange conversation soon

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  • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Technically bi (though my tastes lean gay), I was put in Glasgow for listening to a lot of Steps and CHVRCHES… Given that Glasgow was on the running to host the Gay Olympics this year I guess it could be a close equivalent?

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    • Raz@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Seeing “Gay Olympics” made me go “wut?”, so of course I clicked the link, and it immediately made sense.

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  • Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Did you feel foolish for subscribing to…fucking anything?? points to the Jolly Roger

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    • canis_majoris@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, I don’t feel foolish for having basically humanity’s entire music library on a service.

      When I used to pirate off SoulSeek I was a lot more limited in what I listened to, but Spotify is more than just a music service as it acts as a reliable way to discover new and old music to your liking.

      Piracy is a service problem, and Spotify is a good service.

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      • Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No. No it isn’t.

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  • systemglitch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It never gave me a city. It worked for my partner. I’m kinda pissed I wasted my time on this.

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  • ElBarto@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well let’s go find out if I’m gay.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mine put me in Pittsburg.

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    • RippleEffect@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Pittsburgh here too! Mine is because of from ashes to new, beartooth, and point north. An interesting selection I didn’t even realize I’ve been listening to

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  • massive_bereavement@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Provo, USA?

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    • thiccdiccnicc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This guy listens to only imagine dragons and neon trees

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    • TheMinions@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hey that’s what I got! But I’m admittedly a massive Taylor Swift fan.

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  • ShunkW@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m gay and I was somewhere in Germany. Mainly due to the black metal and one American band that is insanely popular in Germany for some reason.

    So much so that they recorded their live 20 year anniversary somewhere there

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    • Khrux@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      All of my friends who listen to sad lesbian music got Burlington or Berkley.

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    • funkajunk@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Which American band is that?

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      • ShunkW@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah, I guess I could have said their name lol. Boysetsfire. I think they’re from Delaware originally. They were political melodic hardcoreish at the beginning so I still jam their first few records hard. But they have a huge following in Germany.

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  • RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Pittsburgh

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  • mriormro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yep, I got Burlington with The Mountain Goats, Fleet Foxes, and Julia Jacklin.

    I’m a straight, cis guy but my friends often tell me I listen to ‘sad boi’ music so 🤷🏽.

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  • seaQueue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I see the gay agenda is proceeding as planned

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  • agent_flounder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    San Francisco. Apparently progressive trance is popular there? Idk

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  • scytale@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have an account that was used for very limited streaming to a couple of artists. Spotify placed it at Estonia for some reason. None of the artists I listened to are even close to the general area.

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  • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Vancouver.

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  • FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I got Boulder, CO for Foxygen, Broken Bells, and Blind Pilot.

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  • noodlejetski@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ibiza for me.

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  • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Freiburg im Breisgau. Wrapped called me an Alchemist. And I was in the top 3 of listeners for Sabaton this year.

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  • grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I got Helsinki, Finland for Battledragon, Brother Firetribe, and Velvet

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  • BaardFigur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I got Stavanger. That’s less tham 25km from were I live

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  • NaomiBTW@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I got Edmonton, Canada

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