Random thoughts of an average human

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...

WHY MY DOG HAS MORE MUSICAL TALENT THAN ME My dog has more musical talent than me, and I play three instruments. I love to listen to music, which you would know if you read my about page. I also love music theory, cause I'm one of the weirdest music nerds in history. But my dog has better ears than me, which is a fact, and she can also tell whenever I play a wrong note. It's kind of freaky.  I'm just sitting there at my piano, cursing Bach for making things so complicated while also studying the notes and gasping at how smart he is, and all of a sudden I play an F sharp when I'm supposed to play a G. (For those of you who don't know music, picture it as a letter wrong in a word. I want to spell "Major", but instead I spell "Mdjor". See what I mean? Playing the piano is a lot like typing, in the sense that your fingers are moving, and that things turn out wrong if you miss one thing. [That was a long explanation to put inside parentheses.] ...

SONGS OF QUARANTINE  If the world was ending by J.P. Sax & Julia michaels. Nothing more to be said. It's a beautiful song that makes me laugh at our current predicament.