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Had the last drive to uni drive with my dad today, it’s crazy that in 3 months I’ll be done with my degree and idk if I’m ready for that. The drive was good we just sit and talk about sports and listen to music, today we listened to This Is Happening by LCD Soundsystem (my favourite album, seeing them in June and I can’t wait) and Turn on the bright lights by Interpol (a album we listened to together during one of our trips in first year). I’m gonna miss it as it’s one of the only times I get to socialise with my dad, he’s not really a people person and works a lot of the time. To me those drives were a core part of my time at uni and was always something I looked forward to even if I was a bit hungover and stuck in a hot car for a few hours.
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I don't even need the ride, I just like spending time with him.
Aug 6, 2024
It’s soul healing I think. Went to see They Might Be Giants with my dad and cried at Birdhouse thinking about 8 year old me singing it with my dad. We‘ve also seen Belle and Sebastian and Yeah Yeah Yeahs together. He said we just need to see Avril Lavigne and Blondie now and we’ll have seen all the bands we used to cover when I was little (him on guitar me singing). Just go to gigs with your dad, the best gig companion.
Nov 17, 2024
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i spend a lot of time driving with my dad and idk what that man likes aux wise so i’ve started curating songs he nods approvingly at into a playlist and it’s become my dad aux playlist, incredibly helpful for someone whose taste you may not be so familiar with
Feb 18, 2024
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My school did a workshop about it when I was like 10 and I think the amount of care and dedication it takes to hand crafting each and every frame is so cool. When its done well you get a really stylised films, I’m thinking like Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit, Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, ParaNorman and The Box Trolls all of which I loved as a kid and every time I rewatch them I get the same sense of childlike wonder I did when I watched them the first time. I know there’s a lot of crossover with CGI now when making them but just the concept of stop motion animation is really cool.
Apr 13, 2025
I have a memory of being hungover in a McDonald’s being surrounded by middlesborough fans, listening to this song through shitty earbuds and it was a weirdly dreamlike moment. Now every time I hear this song I think of that moment.
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I’m just about to finish my bachelors in media and cultural studies and my dissertation (idk if it’s the same as a thesis) is on how streaming platforms mostly Spotify, have changed the way people listen to music and how it’s been individualised.
Theres a lot to it but I’m gonna try and break down how Spotify uses ai to personalise your experience with the app. Basically, you know cds and that? When you purchase a cd it’s the exact same cd as someone else who also owns that cd even if you listen to it in different settings on paper it’s the same experience. Streaming platforms like Spotify have changed that dynamic because now it’s a lot easier to seperate the music from its intended experience. Spotify then takes your experience with that song and makes a mental note of it and will recommend you music that sounds similar to that song using a ai algorithm that compares your playlists to every playlist on the app. This leads to features like discover weekly that are entirely personalised recommendations based on your own listening history, meaning that on paper your discover weekly and your friends discover weekly should be completely different even if you listen to the same music.
Theres a lot more to it then that, including how Spotify as a platform has sort of moved on from just being a music streaming service by including social media like content with a musical twist. The algorithm is also a lot more complicated than that but that’s how it works on a surface level. But my entire paper revolves around the idea that streaming services and by extension the internet are slowly killing communal music experiences like the radio and live music venues (in some extreme cases) because people like the unique experiences that platforms like Spotify provide due to how personalised they are. I’m not finished writing it yet (deadline is in a month), but all the research is done and I’ve had a lot of interesting interviews with people who use the app casually and others who are more involved in local music scenes to see how streaming platforms have affected them.
Apr 12, 2025