You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music Highlight

for people who listen to less popular music, or combinations of music that don’t always share an audience, the same fuzziness that works to find pleasantly unfamiliar indie-pop for indie-pop fans may instead take a fan of gothic symphonic metal and Uruguayan techno and give them Russian folk-dance music. Russian folk-dance music is awesome, and anybody who has already embraced gothic symphonic metal and Uruguayan techno should definitely give it a chance. It turns out that I particularly like lezginka, a clattery Caucasian 6/8 sword-dance music, maybe even more than I like Uruguayan techno, although not as much as I like Nightwish or Flight of Icarus. One truly great thing about using computers for music recommendation, as opposed to for self-driving cars or actuarial forecasting, is that the thing at the end is always music, not turtles getting run over or refused life-insurance.