April 4ths
4/4/2024 Score for Tableau Vivant *** 4/4/2022 Algorithms now define the trends. Spotify artists and YouTubers tend to abide by them by producing content that trends, which creates a feedback loop favoring both the artist and platform at the expense of deeper creativity. Even though there are no longer duration constraints as there were in vinyl and tape, the constraints prevail because of shortened attention spans, now reduced to a few seconds—which incidentally machines can use to see trends. Alas, it’s unlikely that we’ll sit through a whole side of an LP. (There’s a tenuous correlation between what algorithms define as being popular and what people actually find interesting. Popularity has become more of a false positive by manipulating the data to show that false positive).
