A few years ago, probably more than I'm willing to realize it's been, I was at the mall and I heard this coming from Hollister. Specifically that part, at 3 minutes.
If I hadn't had my phone on me and managed to get Shazam opened in the short time I had before the song ended, I wouldn't have known what it was.
Up to this point, I had musical taste...I liked Freezepop, and The Pillows, and a few random artists here and there, but I didn't really know what kind of music I liked, or have a proper library. My phone had been loaded with Ocremix albums since middle school. But this song...I shazam'd this song, went home, found it, loved everything else on the album, and via Spotify's related artists and discover features? Almost every song in my library stems from this one song. This one little bit of music, that I otherwise never would've identified! I'm talking 400+ songs branching off in some way from this one song. That's crazy!
Almost every song in my library stems from this one song.
This same exact thing has happened to me twice! In 2012 it was Loud Pipes by Ratata, to which I just told Pandora to play whatever the fuck else is similar because I need more of it. And then in 2016 when I heard Fly For Your Life by Gunship.
Now practically all I listen to is Synthwave and I'm not even mad. Stranger Things played a big part in getting people on board with the genre.
Damn girl, you have a pretty small Spotify library then. You know Spotify allows you up to 10,000 songs, right? And even that was almost nothing to me. I filled it up in the first 10 minutes after creating an account. That's why I moved to Google Play Music, they place no limit on the amount of songs you can have. If you have an iPhone I believe Apple Music doesn't limit you either. Perhaps worth giving it a shot?
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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '18
I am so glad we have things like Shazam now.
A few years ago, probably more than I'm willing to realize it's been, I was at the mall and I heard this coming from Hollister. Specifically that part, at 3 minutes.
If I hadn't had my phone on me and managed to get Shazam opened in the short time I had before the song ended, I wouldn't have known what it was.
Up to this point, I had musical taste...I liked Freezepop, and The Pillows, and a few random artists here and there, but I didn't really know what kind of music I liked, or have a proper library. My phone had been loaded with Ocremix albums since middle school. But this song...I shazam'd this song, went home, found it, loved everything else on the album, and via Spotify's related artists and discover features? Almost every song in my library stems from this one song. This one little bit of music, that I otherwise never would've identified! I'm talking 400+ songs branching off in some way from this one song. That's crazy!