Music
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Spotify Wrapped and who we really are
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5 min read
Tis the season for Spotify Wrapped. But what exactly does this AI generated assessment tell us? And how should we treat it?
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Training Spotify’s AI on the drive through Michigan
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3 min read
Why Spotify doesn’t play the stuff I want it to; just the stuff it “thinks” I want to hear. The personal fix is quite simple.
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Do we have to listen to Led Zeppelin?
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2 min read
What popular music is essential? What are we required to listen to? And do such ideas about art even have a place?
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Not the Same Old Same Old
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10 min read
The season we often use to anticipate Christmas can be an invitation to both plan and dream, not only what’s possible, but what God will make possible.
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City With No Children
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1 min read
I’ve loved this song from the moment it first came through the car’s speakers. From Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs, it speaks of desperation and the isolation, trapped feel of that location. Beautifully haunting, youthful, aging, wistful and anguished. Pure pop genius. It has lingered lately. That sense expanded beyond the suburbs, to the country, the continent.…
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Music
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5 min read
I was raised on Peter, Paul, and Mary and Pete Seeger. We listened to show tunes and the Beatles. Total Boomer parents. A flower child’s child. And the culture outside our house was the last hurrah of Top-40 radio: the era when everybody really did hear the same songs on the radio. Before the whole…