Pandora is kinda scaring me.
I have made no bones about the fact that I’m pretty computer lame. I’m not one to mp3 rip burn whatfucking ever, Id rather just go buy the damn disc and get on with my life.
Pandora came into my world after my enraged and very ugly breakup with satellite radio.
Bastards.
So Pandora has been a good friend.
I don’t have alot of ‘stations’ set up, but what I noticed about this ‘music genome project’ is that its really swooping in on me.
But what is that genome thing anyway?
Well Im going to be a lazy cow and snatch it verbatum from Wiki:
The Music Genome Project was an effort to “capture the essence of music at the fundamental level” using almost 400 attributes to describe songs and a complex mathematical algorithm to organize them
Each song is analyzed by a musician in a process that takes 20 to 30 minutes per song
given song is represented by a vector (a list of attributes) containing approximately 400 “genes” (analogous to trait-determining genes for organisms in the field of genetics). Each gene corresponds to a characteristic of the music, for example, gender of lead vocalist, level of distortion on the electric guitar, type of background vocals, etc. Rock and pop songs have 150 genes, rap songs have 350, and jazz songs have approximately 400. Other genres of music, such as world and classical music, have 300–500 genes. The system depends on a sufficient number of genes to render useful results. Each gene is assigned a number between 1 and 5, in half-integer increments.
What the hell? Basically they make stations of songs that are similar.
I think Pandora spies through my windows or something
Example, the genre you pick is going to determine the advertising you get.
I have My Chemical Romance as one of my stations- guess what the banner ad is? Cymbalta, the anti depressant. See if I were Pandy, I would match My Chem up with a cosmetic company. Cuz its all about the look with them, don’t you agree? Urban Decay or even Maybelline. My Chem isn’t a depression inducing band its a band for wanna be ’emo’s”.
Arctic Monkey ad? Netflix.
Most likely cuz they know if you’re grooving to the Monkeys, you ain’t leaving the house cuz these bands don’t tour much or are already broken up. Thanks. Ill go rent House Bunny or something.
What would I pair with them? Most likely alcohol, but I don’t know if that’s legal.
English Beat Radio?
American Cancer Society. this could just be random placement but seriously this one is in poor taste. This would actually be a great place to advertise an airline or travel service. Get tropically ska so to speak.
The point of this is its not just the music their analyzing, its you.
Human genome project, I just think its more like pairing wines with dinner.
They should hire me.