SPOTIFY'S STUPID SNEAKY SUBGENRES
I adore Spotify. However, it can cross the line sometimes with things like zodiac playlists. Overall though, it only has one flaw: THE AMOUNT OF SUBGENRES THAT IT SNEAKS IN. I spend enough time on Bandcamp to be comfortable with subgenres (read: I like fringe music. Bandcamp is home to every starting-up, fringy, alternative musician ever). But I've always thought of Spotify as meant for the more mainstream genres/artists. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of start-ups on Spotify who are plenty fringy and who, when I mention to people, cause others to go "Who? Never heard of them" . Yet most of them have scored small hits in some corner of the Internet. So, even though I spend most of my time streaming indie bands on Spotify, it does mainly advertise for the mainstream types of genres, tending to make playlists and radios for the big genres, like pop, rock, and EDM. The genres that you can search up are big like this. However, it will sneak in weirdly named subgenr