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The Results Are In! The Guide of the Year Awards 2022 01/31/23
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This year’s Spotify Wrapped once again reminded me how nonsensically genres are attributed on Spotify. As far as I know, there’s no way to actually view all of the genres given to an album, and that’s probably for a reason. I only know of this due to the idiotic playlists that were generated based on my top genres this year. While I think arguing about sub-genres can get ridiculous and is just splitting hairs past a certain point, what I’m talking about here is the mislabelling and blatant stereotyping of artists and/or albums. For example, if Japanese women play metal, then that's somehow “idol rock”, but also considered metal and Japanese metal at the same time. Regardless of gender, if a band had one or two songs used in an anime, then all of their music is “anime” genre (Galneryus seems to be considered as such). By this logic, the entire discography of Yes should be considered “anime” as well (it’s not). Does any of this actually matter? No, but it mildly annoyed me enough to post this. At least I got a laugh out of how dumb some of it was.
Well, what can I say; I like to listen to “happy sorrow gloomy” music in the morning, “soothing laid back gentle” music in the afternoon, then go full “hardcore angst mayhem” at night. /s
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Depending on how long ago it was, you might be surprised to find out that Galneryus has had a different vocalist since 2009. Even now they have two songs in Gitadora, which is surprising considering these songs were added back when it was still called GuitarFreaks (and DrumMania). Anyway, I've been a fan of Nana Mizuki ever since I heard Innocent Starter, and I listened to all of her albums many, many times after that. She's my favorite J-Pop artist by far, and one of my favorite singers in general.
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