Comparing Mechs fans spotify wrapped with others shows us scientifically that we're something else
A friend of mine is in the top 0.05% of Sleeping At Last (almost 8mio monthly listeners) with 7.4k minutes
I'm just in the top 0.5% of the Mechanisms (36k monthly listeners) with 9.3k minutes
This means that you needed less minutes to be a way higher listener of an artist with 205 times as many listeners.
So there aren't many of us, but I can almost guarantee that not a single one of us is even remotely normal.
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Happy JFK assassination day 🥳
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as an avid listener of both lmm and taylor, it's interesting to me that my interest and affection have gone down for taylor and remain constant for lin - when arguably the past 2-3 years have never been a better time to be a taylor swift fan, and never been a worse time to be a lmm fan.
both are mainstream and have mega viral songs. both have different struggles in the public eye - taylor being a woman (the 2010s were absolutely vile to her), lmm being latino (i will never shut up about how people would be so much nicer to him if he was a conventionally attractive white man). both arguably have recognizable styles that some people really don't like.
and yet. in the past few years i've grown less and less enthusiastic about taylor's music, and i think it's because she doesn't treat it like music. does that make sense? her fans aren't real people making time from their day for her, they're consumers. her album is content for sale. maybe this is unfair and just because of her marketing strategies or whatnot, but that's how i feel. and i've never been invested in her personal life, so it has nothing to do with that.
for all the heat that people give lmm, some of it justified, i don't think you can say that he doesn't care. does he act "cringey"? sure! and idgaf, because i much prefer raw, unfiltered enthusiasm than a cool idgaf attitude especially in today's age of microtrends and media. i don't think you can listen to the man talk about his projects without realizing how much he cares about what he's made.
and i dunno, that's bled over a lot to the point where i'm excited for his future projects whether or not i think i'll like them. there's trust that even if it's not to my taste, i'll be able to tell that it's been made with something, not shipped out of a factory. and i'm even moreso excited about his new musical because as much as i enjoyed moana and encanto, he's the type that really shines when he's fully doing what he wants, i think. something as nerdy and niche like an alexander hamilton musical, for example.
anon, i've been thinking about your message the whole day & i literally have nothing else to add, i agree with you 100%
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shuffle your ‘On Repeat’ playlist and list the first 10 songs that play, then tag 10 people
thanks for tagging me @heymrspatel @energievie @gardenerian @7x10mickey @samantitheos ! 💚
gnarcissist by mutoid man
sea lungs by baroness
from here by torche
more than i could chew by mastodon
children of sorrow by health
call of the void by mutoid man
embers by elder
glass future by howling giant
ashamed by health
great mass of color by deafheaven
this list is kind of weird because i can't remember the last time i listened to some of these. i haven't been repeating much lately, that's just not how i've been listening to music. so i feel like some stuff on this playlist is stuff that was on repeat a while ago and some stuff i've just listened to recently.
tagging @howlinchickhowl @gallawitchxx @whatwouldmickeydo @whatthebodygraspsnot @crossmydna @sgtmickeyslaughter @rereadanon @transmurderbug @deedala @sisitrip if you wanna play 🖤
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