> You're stuck in the early 2010s. You only listen to Obama-era jams like Nocturne in B-Flat Minor, Op. 9, No. 1 by Frédéric Chopin and Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467: II. Andante by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The output it spitted out while processing was pretty good though.

> oh great another Rise Against stan... > You've been listening to a lot of Logic lately. > u okay? > >Yeah why > no reason... > Of course Twenty One Pilots.

Not gonna lie, I'm feeling a bit judged by this AI:)

If it's any comfort I got the _exact_ same sequence of comments/questions but with different bands I listened to a lot in 2020..

Hope that didn't ruin the magic.

It kinda did. I was enjoying being judged but now that I know that everyone is, I feel less special.

My favorite part was knowing it was an AI but still feeling at least a little defensive at parts

> You've been listening to a lot of Logic lately. > u okay?

Asked the same thing to me, but about Radiohead.

Same , but with:

- Ryan Caraveo, u okay? - ...of course, K.Flay

Lol. Mine was LCD Soundsystem.

Asked the same thing to me, but about The Replacements.

For me it was Asking Alexandria, which fit pretty well as they have mostly dark songs.

What's moody about the placemats?

Well, if you consider drunken sprees a mood... :)

On second thought I do think Paul Westerberg has a strong melancholy streak.

At first I had stuff "Waitress in the Sky" or "Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out" or "Alex Chilton" or whatever in mind, but now that I think about it there's a dark undercurrent to plenty of the songs in the core Replacements canon: "Hold my Life", "Unsatisified", "I Will Dare", "Bastards of Young", "I'll Be You", etc. - not to mention of a handful of slow tempo tracks with obviously dark themes.

I don't normally associate the Replacements with mopey music but in retrospect I'm not sure why. It's kinda all over the place, under a very thin veneer of drunken cynicism.

Exactly. To your point, I'm thinking of 'Swingin' Party,' 'Here Comes a Regular,' even the lovely 'Skyway' is melancholy at heart. Read 'Trouble Boys' by Bob Mehr to find out why.

Clipping here, which definitely made sense.

I listened to Why Don't We _one time_ to see what they sounded like and now Spotify, and this, thinks I stan.

12 hours ago was what, 5am London, Midnight East Coast?

Timing is everything. If a tree falls in the forest and 75% of the potential readership are fast asleep, does it make a sound?

(Numbers are fictional - and possibly eurocentric - for the purpose of conversation. I think the point stands with or without their veracity, it's just easier for form a sentence with values)

In theory you could account for this, right? HN (and reddit, etc.) could score based on how many typical voters have seen it, or just bias directly based on average active times across a week.

Dang sends email to people suggesting they repost it if he thinks it should have gotten more traction, probably an easier system. I could see reddit doing something like that but hn seems pretty basic

> Your taste is so obscure that's so cool I bet you're super interesting..

After it picked the one very popular song I listen to in order to laugh at me for listening to non obscure things, ignoring the piles of weird random crap I normally listen to that nobody ever seems to know. Funny but not very accurate.

Overall all I got a good laugh though.

I think the microtonal stuff I listen to is probably too unpopular to even have reviews to go on.

It picked out Brendan Byrnes as one of my obscure artists, though he is probably one of the more popular microtonal artists. It was able to pick out my own band as one of my "obscure artists", so I don't think "too unpopular" is a thing for it, haha.

Cool...

you ok?

[lol, jk.] [yeah, why?]

"You are 11% basic. Red Moon Architect and Ahab? Where do you even find this shit?."

Exactly what happened to me also

Curious, I learned something.

> You're stuck in the early 2010s. For you, music's been all downhill since Orden Ogan made The Things We Believe In.

Now I wonder if this is because my account is old, or if I really listen to that much old stuff, or if my favorite bands just don't release that much. Weird.

But I'm entirely fine with the other assments:

> Your spotify was renaissance-faire -too-much-power metal bad.

> Thank your obsessions with medieval rock and power metal (e.g., Sabaton and Dreamtale) for that.

> Based on your listening habits, I can also tell you your spotify was...

> hail-satan bad

> You are 0% basic. Ewigheim and Winterstorm? Where do you even find this shit?.

And I think winterstorm and ewigheim aren't even the most obscure bands.

Oh but there is a new stribog album. nice.

>Where do you even find this shit?.

I don't follow the recomendations, I click "Fans also listen to". Here is the rest of my assesment.

> Your spotify was moonshine-renaissance-faire bad.

> Thank your obsessions with Johnny Cash and medieval folk for that.

> Based on your listening habits, I can also tell you your spotify was...

> napping-in-your-mancave bad

> Here's what else is going on in your aural trash fire:

You listen to these tracks too much:

    Enter The Ninja by Die Antwoord
    Napalm Sunshine by Lying for Friends
    The Lachrymal Sleep by Doom:VS
    Thousands Of Bees by In Gowan Ring
    The Seer and the Seen by In Gowan Ring

You stan these artists to an uncomfortable extent:

    VNV Nation
    Winterfylleth
    WEH
    Rome
    Falconer

You are 1% basic. Trepaneringsritualen and Svartidaudi? Where do you even find this shit?.

You're stuck in the early 2010s. You only listen to Obama-era jams like Ensigns Of Victory by Winterfylleth and Streamline by VNV Nation.

Analysis completed in 4.012 exhausting seconds.

Thanks for letting me see your music I guess.

Shutting down.

Try having kids:

> You listen to these tracks too much:

> - Rock-A-Bye Your Bear by The Wiggles

Which, to be fair, is my second favourite Wiggle song!

Oh, I have kids. I just give them their own accounts

Heheh love winterfylleth, you're not alone!

> You're stuck in the early 2010s. For you, music's been all downhill since Kalax made Time Lapse.

I got the same thing with a different song. What's funny about this one is it's from 2017.

Yeah I don't see what's wrong with that.

It's complaining about me listening to Eluveitie and Ost+Front too much (and Metalocalypse and Celldweller).

I'm sorry that I went searching for other german industrial metal bands when rammstein took forever to put out another album.

Everyone got the same message about the 2010s it seems. Don’t fail the Turing test. Or the reverse Turing test where an AI makes you question your own humanity. :)

> Now I wonder if this is because my account is old

I made my account this yeah, and i got the same "you're stuck in the early 2010s". I guess I just listen to a lot of music from then.

Interestingly most of the examples it gave me for being stuck in the early 2010s were from the second half of the decade.

That reads like high praise to me.

You are 11% basic. Red Moon Architect and Ahab? Where do you even find this shit?.

this is about how mine went. It's very concerned about where I found Necropanther and Wasteland Riders

> You are 0% basic. Have you considered there's a reason nobody listens to Mistabishi?.

> > Your spotify was ira-glass-in-your-airpods-manic-pixie-dream-girl bad.

Made me laugh!

i mean there was him loosing all those bookings after going on racist rants on facebook. i think he used to get banned from dogs on acid a lot for being a dumb asshole too https://mixmag.net/read/drum-n-bass-producer-mistabishi-has-...

*Adds Mistabishi to playlist

> You are 3% basic. MYST and Project One? Where do you even find this shit?.

Hilarious, especially since these are pretty much mainstream artists of my (not so small) niche. I'd love to see how it comes up with those.

> This same link was posted 11 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25513886 here and is not at all getting the same popularity.

HN allows reposts of an article when earlier submissions haven't gotten attention yet. This is our way of mitigating the randomness of what gets traction off /newest.

It makes for a something of a lottery in terms of which submission ends up with all the attention, but it's on our list to implement some kind of karma sharing across multiple submissions. It's been on our list for years, but we'll get to it eventually!

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

> You are 5% basic. Talpa and Villagers of Ioannina City? Where do you even find this shit?.

> You're stuck in the early 2010s. You must have peaked right around Ratatat's Magnifique.

The last line is definitely something I will mention to my therapist ... :-)

Still, it validated my hipster taste, even though it made fun of it. Suck it bot, I'm cool and your programmers aren't.

Gosh I love Ratatat’s Magnifique.

It's about time for their next album. Got any recommendation? So far, I've found Ratatat are in their own league, nobody comes close to that very specific feeling and genre.

Well, unfortunately no. Ratatat is my lucky find. Heard their 'Gettysburg' while watching some random gaming clip that feature their music! and they're not my usual genre I've listen to. So Google is your best friend...

Other of my fav instrumental band is CHON, but they're more of math rock and not really the same.

Mine was wonderfully vicious too, though I am noticing we got some of the same synonyms (I was at 17%): "masters-in-creative-writing" instead of "please-read-my-manuscript" and I would much have preferred "walmart-hawaiian-shirt" over "tommy-bahama". That stung.

Hilarious, yes.

> You are 15% basic. Yeah, you've got some obscure artists like VanKatoen, but your real top ones are ultra-mainstream like The Weeknd..

> Based on your listening habits, I can also tell you your spotify was...

> dad-rock bad

> neverland-ranch bad

> nineties-dorm-room bad

> studded-leather-jacket bad

> wannabe-tenor-but-probably-a-bass bad

As a rock-listening dad who spent most of the 90s living in a dorm room, I felt spied on.

This was so much fun.

> You are 5% basic. Old Man Gloom and Distorted Harmony? Where do you even find this shit?.

I feel called out, but also kinda proud.

> You're stuck in the early 2010s. You must have peaked right around The Dear Hunter's Act Iv: Rebirth in Reprise.

Early 2010s were amazing era for Prog metal alright.

Ha! I also got 26% score and it was ridiculing me for listening to Ed Alleyne-Johnson [1] and David Hicken [2] even though they are not even mainstream performers :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJwAZMq08xA

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHtdqGy3g5Q or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YftAYq1AHiE if you are in a more upbeat mood

>Anyone got ideas?

The Act of HN submission. But broadly speaking US working time zone get a much higher chance of submission being upvoted.

6% basic. AI hates me. Apparently, Your spotify was overdramatic-instrumental-yoga-studio-heavy-eyeliner-post-punk bad. And this was just the beginning of the insults.

>You're stuck in the early 2010s.

oof, I'm not even angry lol

The algorithm is more basic than the music it passes judgement on so take the verbiage with a grain of punk-vinyl-you-never-heard-before.

i'm 1% basic, i'm clearly the coolest in da room

I'm guessing 1% is actually common. Mine:

"You are 1% basic. Oh wow Penelope Trappes and Titi Robin! Your taste is so obscure that's so cool I bet you're super interesting..

You're too trendy for your own good. You only listen to music made in the last year."

Another 1%:

"You are 1% basic. Have you considered there's a reason nobody listens to DJ Marsta?.

You're stuck in the early 2010s. You must have peaked right around Mez's Tyrone EP."

I got 0%!

But you ARE cool for listening to Kapitan Korsakov!

It rated me 6% basic... what's sad is that I'm now proud of that. I've resisted being called hipster, maybe inappropriately.

My spotify was 'heavy-eyeliner-post-punk-boomer-relaxation-dads-still-cool bad'