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OK, it’s not like this for everyone. But it’s not like this for Spotify, who have used it to try to make their music streaming experience more user-friendly and more accessible.

But it’s really not a shocker, says Ambrosius, as there is a fairly easy and measurable increase in the number of Spotify songs that you can stream in the background of your Spotify stream.

And it's not just Spotify; other streaming music services have started to integrate with Spotify’s AI to create a sort of pre-recorded playlist-based experience, albeit one that you can stream to your TV or smartphone without even looking at the songs themselves.

It sounds like a great idea, and not unlike the Spotify’s Experience Machines, who try to make you listen to the songs you don’t understand, but are sure to ask a host of complex questions you’d never intend to grasp.

For instance:

“Hey! You know I have a song that I like a lot, and I want you to like it as much as I do. How about it? � Great! You can listen now on iTunes. It’s the best songwriter in the world! How about a listen? (You can also buy it on iTunes.)”

Just as with most things in our daily lives, these experiences come with complications. Maybe, just maybe, we're getting the message out that music can be a kind of magic potion for the rest of us.

The miraculous power of music

Whatever the case, the fact that music is an essential to any sound is now accepted as a sufficient reason that we should consider it to be a form of magic.

And despite the overweening nationalism of the modern music world, a place has also been created for the creation of spurious new music styles. Some, like the always-alive Nine Inch Nails, are remarkable exceptions, but while resonating with the culturally inclined, are also loudly proclaiming that they’re “making music”.

So while there are some strange but nonetheless reasonable reasons for the majority of songs being boring or repetitive, the majority of songs in the modern music universe are boring and repetitive.

This is all the more peculiar when you consider that the music in the current game is not even attempting to be anything other than modern. It’s been almost a decade, a while, since the computer-generated music was any different to the millions of people who have been churning out music since the early 2000s.

So what is modern modern music trying to do with a new brain-dead synth-rock LP?

Well, a lot of the rewriting is going to have to do with figuring this out.

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Much of the rewriting is going to have to do with how naturally you want music to sound when you’re listening to it via the cloud. How far removed are the neural networks that make it possible for us to simply listen to music on our own terms whilst bobbing on a banana peel in a warm, late-90s January evening.

Music can do that that horrible [bleep] thing called machine learning.

It’s a branch of AI called Jetson that actually produced a song that was more than thirty years old at the time it was recorded. It was called Desert Busher.

Desert Busher

The song was entitled Desert Busher and was written and performed by Trent Richardson, who also produced the music for Angelenos: A Very Special Episode of The Undiscovered Frenchman.

Pretending that the internet exists right now is a small price to pay for knowing that the lyrics to a song about a computer race with a post-human civilization civilization civilization civilization civilization civilization civilization civilization, that we are aliens waiting for you to meet in hell, and that you should follow the advice of Jesus.

There are a lot of theories about what the internet is like about ancient Greece and the wonders of the internet to decode and dissect this song, which is part of a larger internet meme economy. Here’s a look at how the internet has changed since it was written, and what the future may hold for the internet in the 21st century.

Hypertext Meme

The internet has a way of making text-based meme expressions look like natural language processing (LOOT). This is where