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5/2/06 17:55![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlectomyI've been playing with Pandora, the latest incarnation of music recommendation radio. It says that I like "Major key tonality, folk influences, vamping, rhythm syncopation, acoustic rhythm guitars, great lyrics," among others. Which is not totally wrong. (I like minor keys, but how often do you hear a pop song in a minor key, anyway?). And (without being told) it played "Jane" for me, one of my favorite Barenaked Ladies songs for its lovely sardonic couplets:
And it has some awfully obscure music on there. But a lot of what I'm hearing is just generic pop songs--okay, admittedly, music snobs would say that I like generic pop songs. But...that's the problem with recommendation software; how I determine which pop songs I like and which I do not like seems a bit too complicated for software to get a handle on. I tried to put in the most distant extremes of my music taste, hoping it would be sophisticated enough to extrapolate from there, but I think it tried to figure out what all the songs I like have in common...and didn't come up with much besides "melodic guitar folk-pop, with optional pirate-related lyrics."
I'd bring her gold and frankincense and myrrh
She thought that I was making fun of her
She made me feel I was fourteen again
'Cause she thinks it's cooler if we're just friends
And it has some awfully obscure music on there. But a lot of what I'm hearing is just generic pop songs--okay, admittedly, music snobs would say that I like generic pop songs. But...that's the problem with recommendation software; how I determine which pop songs I like and which I do not like seems a bit too complicated for software to get a handle on. I tried to put in the most distant extremes of my music taste, hoping it would be sophisticated enough to extrapolate from there, but I think it tried to figure out what all the songs I like have in common...and didn't come up with much besides "melodic guitar folk-pop, with optional pirate-related lyrics."