My Audio Day is the second new metric Spotify introduced for its 2023 Wrapped, though it’s really a recycled way of using data that is shared every year. In 1995, Smashing Pumpkins also released their double album Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness which went on to sell 10 million copies in the US alone, certifying it as a Diamond record. “Mellow Gold contains elements of soft rock and folk rock, with emphasis on clean production, harmonies, and melodic compositions,” according to Spotify.
If you follow someone on Spotify, you can see who is listening to what you’re listening to. If you want others to be safe, you can conduct a private session with them. You should keep in mind that anything you listen to in a Private Session may not influence your music recommendations; for example, Discover Weekly may not have changed. As a result, when we attempt to build a dictionary containing all genres and their aggregated frequenies, we must flatten our array. We iterate through all genres in genreDict to see if our reduced dictionary contains the key.
“It was the final show on a package tour that brought what used to be post-punk alternative rock, the province of clubs and cult audiences, to the arena circuit across the United States.” In the middle of the decade, Hüsker Dü’s album Zen Arcade influenced other hardcore acts by tackling personal issues. Out of Washington, D.C.’s hardcore scene what was called “emocore” or, later, “emo” emerged and was noted for its lyrics which delved into emotional, very personal subject matter and added free association poetry and a confessional tone. Former Minor Threat singer Ian MacKaye founded Dischord Records which became the center for the city’s emo scene. While Spotify hasn’t officially defined this mood, The Sounds of Spotify’s “The Sound of Otacore” playlist links to Every Noise at Once, which has pulled out words like “anime,” “Japanese dream pop,” “indie psych-pop” and “j poprock,” amongst others, to describe the genre.
“My Spotify Wrapped said Alt Z is one of my top genres and I’ve no idea what it is but I looked at Spotify’s Alt Z playlist and it makes sense,” a third tweet stated. “Spotify said Alt Z was one of my top genres, and honestly, I think they were just gently reminding me that I’ve been kind of depressed,” one user explained. Alt Z is one of several genres displayed on Spotify Wrapped 2022, but many users are unsure what it means.
The Dead Kennedys formed the independent record label Alternative Tentacles in 1979, releasing influential underground music such as the 1983 self-titled EP from the Butthole Surfers. By 1984, a majority of groups signed to indie labels mined from a variety of rock and particularly 1960s rock influences. This represented a sharp break from the futuristic, hyper-rational post-punk years. According to Spotify, this mood is “alt pop with story-full lyrics that theater kids are likely to love,” with artists that include Halsey, 5 Seconds of Summer, Lewis Capaldi, Alessia Cara and Julia Michaels.
Post-rock became the dominant form of experimental rock music in the 1990s and bands from the genre signed to such labels as Thrill Jockey, Kranky, Drag City, and Too Pure. In comparison to post-rock, math rock relies on more complex time signatures and intertwining phrases. By the end of the decade a backlash had emerged against post-rock due to its “dispassionate intellectuality” and its perceived increasing predictability, but a new wave of ga domain post-rock bands such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Sigur Rós emerged who further expanded the genre. The key British alternative rock band to emerge during the 1980s was Manchester’s the Smiths. Music journalist Simon Reynolds singled out the Smiths and their American contemporaries R.E.M. as “the two most important alt-rock bands of the day”, commenting that they “were eighties bands only in the sense of being against the eighties”.
And, despite still utilizing drum machine sounds, the beat is closer to rock, e.g. open hi-hat eights and 2-4 snare. Shimmer pop is closely related to indie pop and indietronica. Acoustical elements may include reverberated vocals and guitar, booming choruses, and use of synthesizer, piano, or drum machines.