“The one who is not doing well is my father”: he was outraged because Spotify recommended L-Ghent, before Led Zeppelin “| Chronicle

In recent years it became known how entertainment companies on the internet, such as Spotify, YouTube, Netflix or other platforms, recommend content to their users. It is known that by means of a algorithm – a program that works automatically, after certain parameters have been loaded – these platforms know personal tastes and preferences and thus prevent what content we are likely to reproduce. Despite the fact that algorithms are increasingly sophisticated and that they can make predictions that surprise even the programmers themselves, they often fail in their recommendation system.

Meanwhile, a man had a bad experience with the recommendations of Spotify and he published a Facebook story, in which he complained about that system that works by means of an algorithm. “How sad to open Spotify and put the” L “and the first thing that appears is L-Ghent and not Led Zeppelin”, was the complaint that the man posted on his social networks.

This outraged user’s daughter (martuukamm) echoed her father’s anger and “escrachado” in another social network; on Twitter. There, the woman wrote: “The one who’s not doing well is my dad”. In that sense, the girl managed to viralize her father’s claim on Twitter, where she achieved 135,000 “likes” and more than 5,000 retweets. The acceptance numbers of that post made it clear that many users of these music platforms or other streaming content.

After some users believed that the fact that the father “it was not good” and interpret that phrase as a recrimination of the young woman to her father, far from that, she clarified that the expression was used to say that “He’s sad, not that his thinking is wrong”. In addition, he remarked that “everyone hears what they like”.

As expected, the other users used their right to leave their comments and many agreed with the musical taste of the young woman’s father: “Music was that of before”; “Music died at least 20 years ago. I grew up listening to The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Queen, Soda, Radiohead, Spinetta in all their colors, The Who, U2, The Rolling, Led Zeppelin among so many others, It hurts me so much when I hear young people talk about flow “; “I have four cell phones smashed against the wall because that appears”; “What I bank your father”; “Everything is sadness and pain”.

In addition, other people took the complaints with humor and published: “Music died at least 500 years ago, I grew up listening to Mozart, Bach, but now everyone talks about the Beatles and their Rock and so many others … I am saddened by the death of good music”; “How sad to put “L” on Spotify and that L-gante appears instead of La Berisso “.

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