1/26/2024 0 Comments I was like low key meaning![]() ![]() You can play new releases in the Indie Folk category or you can play Acoustic Coffeehouse or Electric Workout or Fresh Rap or Lo-Fi Beats. Spotify also features curated playlists inside of curated moods and vibes. Downloading is to enter the semi-permanent though still ephemeral intermediate state of being able to play your music from your device without the use of an internet connection. By adding them to your library, you’re essentially bookmarking the songs for easy access for the making of playlists and what not. This is different from downloading the songs. Or you can save whole albums to your library. Each song you play ends up in your library in some form or another, either in a playlist called “Recently Played” or “Liked songs” if you tap the heart or thumbs up symbol. There’s also a function that lets you listen offline, which means, to people like me who grew up in the age of physical media, like, listening the regular way. For a fee, you can even stream without ads. Think Apple Music, Tidal, Pandora Radio (those were the days), Rhapsody, etc. For those who do not, Spotify is a music streaming platform. This week is the start of Spotify Wrapped season to all who celebrate. Never.īut despite all of that, I do find it funny that despite this, so much of modern fashion and culture seems to draw a lot of images and modes of thinking from, well, monastic life. I am never surprised when someone says they are suspicious of organized religion. I am never surprised when someone says they don’t believe in God. I imagine this must account for why an increasing number of Americans do not identify with organized religion.įor me and for many of my closest friends, organized religion was an instrument of oppression and terror. One lots of people know because they have experienced. He was an all-seeing, all-punishing gaze from heaven. Even when I was alone with myself, I was under constant surveillance. ![]() Even when I was being molested and abused. We were taught to subvert ourselves and to obey. ![]() There was a great emphasis placed on obedience and the giving over of one’s personal authority and agency to something greater than oneself. I was taught to hate myself in ways both obvious and more insidious. I won’t speak for other people, but I grew up with a lot of religious trauma.Ĭhurch, meaning both the physical place and the social aspect of being brought up in a faith tradition, was the site of a lot of pain and suffering for me. Such is the life of the culturally Protestant. ![]() I don’t believe in an afterlife or in God, but also, I feel that this lack of belief somehow marks my soul out for eternally bad treatment. And in becoming an atheist, I permanently conscripted myself into the damned category. I was raised very Baptist, which means that I have, at core, this view of there being two kinds of people: the saved and the damned. I feel that there is something particular about the way a Protestant loses their faith that precludes ever finding one’s way into someone else’s religious catchment. I am in no danger of converting to anything. We can’t find Salvation in the app store, but we can find its imitators. In short, I’ve been thinking a lot about how Spotify Wrapped is just another example of the ways we’ve turned to apps and platforms because we no longer go to confessors or priests or preachers. To give myself a break from my intense self-hatred during my sleepless nights, I’ve been thinking about some of my favorite things: how the internet is just Calvinism, Veblen and emulation in the digital context, and the harrowing aridity of modern secular life. I haven’t slept well for the last week or so because last week, I met a man who was so handsome that he ruined my life for several days. ![]()
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