¶ Warm Worms Against Winter · 1 December 2015 listen/tech
It's dark and cold and grim, and then the Christmas music starts.
Whether that makes things better or worse for you is your own decision, but at Spotify we're trying to help you either way.
So we try to keep Christmas music mostly out of The Needle, which is harder than you might think, because weary Christmas standards being dragged out of the bins show an activity curve disconcertingly similar to that of emergent new hipnesses.
But this year, instead of just trying to suppress this surge, I decided to suppress it but also chart it. And thus we get this, The Approaching Worms of Christmas:
This chart will be updated every day or two until Christmas, and then maybe a few days afterwards just so we can all feel calmer again.
Watching the worms rise, actually, I also became morbidly curious what all that music was, and so I also also reversed the polarity of my anti-Christmas-music filters for The Needle, to try to only get rising (or re-surfacing) Christmas music. And of course the results of this could only be called Pine Needles:
These will also be updated dailyish until Christmas. I don't actually know whether they will end up reverting to chestnuts, or splaying into unimaginable craziness. We'll see. What's the fun of building a machine if you already know what it's going to do?
At any rate, welcome to the winter. Stay warm. There's music. It'll be OK.
Whether that makes things better or worse for you is your own decision, but at Spotify we're trying to help you either way.
So we try to keep Christmas music mostly out of The Needle, which is harder than you might think, because weary Christmas standards being dragged out of the bins show an activity curve disconcertingly similar to that of emergent new hipnesses.
But this year, instead of just trying to suppress this surge, I decided to suppress it but also chart it. And thus we get this, The Approaching Worms of Christmas:
This chart will be updated every day or two until Christmas, and then maybe a few days afterwards just so we can all feel calmer again.
Watching the worms rise, actually, I also became morbidly curious what all that music was, and so I also also reversed the polarity of my anti-Christmas-music filters for The Needle, to try to only get rising (or re-surfacing) Christmas music. And of course the results of this could only be called Pine Needles:
These will also be updated dailyish until Christmas. I don't actually know whether they will end up reverting to chestnuts, or splaying into unimaginable craziness. We'll see. What's the fun of building a machine if you already know what it's going to do?
At any rate, welcome to the winter. Stay warm. There's music. It'll be OK.