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I was sharing music with a friend and their reaction upon being shown an artist (not even listening) was "ew less than 100k monthly listens”

bro? is this your metric for good music ? how many people listen to it on Spotify ?

if this is how avg ppl see music it explains a lot about top 40 charts

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M137@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It’s sadly a very common thing and applies to just about everything. “It’s not popular so it’s automatically bad”, I’m just glad I’m not forced to be around people like that too often.

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- MonkRome@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  My mother in law used to refuse to eat in an empty or nearly empty restaurant. On the logic that if it’s empty it must be bad. Never mind that the reason a restaurant is empty often has more to do with location than quality, or that it’s packed for dinner and empty at lunch or vice versa.
  
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  - SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Wild, I refuse to go to packed restaurants because my experience will be markedly worse… my favorite time is between 2-4, because everywhere is dead then.
    
    To each their own, I guess.
    
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- Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Oddly enough, I’m on the opposite side. Popularity ruins good things. I’m probably just bitter and cynical though. And that’s also not to say that there aren’t things with massive popularity that are also good.
  
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- natebluehooves@pawb.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  this is also why vote manipulation is a thing. people are prejudiced by the appearance of a consensus.
  
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nile_istic@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Funny, cuz lots of the ones who say “ew less than 100k listens” will also say they’re not into pop music. Wondering what they think “pop” is short for lmao

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- bequirtle@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Pop is a genre, and does not necessarily stand for popular music
  
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yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
You could make an argument that if a song is listened a lot, it means a lot of people find it good and thus is could not be bad. But then again, Suicide Squad was a successful movie if you were to base your judgement on popularity.

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hardcoreufo@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I remember getting made fun of in middle school for listening to Nevermind, you know just a landmark in rock music because it was at the time almost 10 years old. Sigh.

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