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This is from the artist's pov, and touches on specific scenarios, but generally speaking this and other things make every Spotify user's experience worse.
And what I hate most is that they don't even understand what I'm talking about. That they're being duped, and that I have more freedom in choosing and discovering music than them.
So many people think solely in genres nowadays, not individual artists. And they don't even care if more and more generic or AI generated stuff finds its way into their playlists. They "adapt". After all, they only put stuff they like into their playlists, right? But unknowingly, gently, they keep getting pulled towards a trodden path and if this goes on long enough we'll have like 10 genres to choose from and that's it. No individual artists anymore, no experimentation, no challenging your listening habits etc.
edit: it seems my general anti-streaming-service-rant partly contradicts this video, or misses its topic by half a mile, but then again maybe not? Shit's complex.
Usually when people think in genres instead of artists, genres get more granular, so we end up with hundreds of more new words that describe minute differences. Like, look at EDM, a genre that has never really cared about individual artists. They'll consider a 5BPM difference to be a different genre.
Given all the different "microgenres" that are popping up now, usually by younger artists, I think that tracks with music today.