It was Shakespeare who penned the quote, “If music be the food of love, play on.” But what happens when the food of love turns into a buffet?
A few months back, I wrote an article that mentioned the way Spotify was an innovation for music lovers. While I still agree that it’s a convenient way to have an array of music at your fingertips, I don’t necessarily agree with my previous sentiment of Spotify’s greatness with finding new music.
It is my deepest regret to inform you that it has become too easy to do so.
What used to be a revered accomplishment has turned into a force-fed second thought. Finding new music used to entail a good amount of time spent on last.fm (or something similar) and searching through artists related to what you were looking for, trying them out and moving on to the next until you found that exact sound you were yearning for.
Recently Spotify went through a new update that gave users a slick, black layout and clean, crisp fonts that have a hint of iOS 7 inspiration.
Along with these changes, a plethora of new playlists were created, and not just by users. Many of these genre and mood-dependent playlists have been put together by the website itself.
It’s a bit of a stretch to call Spotify “The Man.” If you use that sentiment, though, it almost feels as though The Man is trying to tell us what we should listen to for what specific mood we’re in. Did we learn nothing from the 60s hippie movement? Don’t let The Man tell you what to think, man.
Indie music of every kind makes up these playlists, which begs the question of whether it’s technically even indie anymore. Part of the draw of this genre was the fact that it was not as commercially available as other genres out there.
If music truly is the food of love, isn’t it best to prepare it ourselves?
These premade “meals” created by sites like Spotify have far less nutritional music value than what we should be consuming. Instead, let us prepare a homemade, three-course “meal” with all our favorite musical ingredients and revel in our creation.
