Love this passage from Hua Hsu on the limits of Spotify streaming data to capture the significance of music:
"The most meaningful songs of my life aren't always ones I can listen to over and over. They're there when I need them."
I remember Holly Herndon making a similar argument about recordings you hear just once that nonetheless flip your whole perspective.
Repetition, spins, streams, clicks, and views are such partial measures of value.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/30/mood-machine-liz-pelly-book-review
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