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Your Playlist SucksCall Me Old School But Your Playlist Sucks: Genre-Bending Covers and Transformational SoundsEven for the avid music listener, reactions ranging from "mind blown" to "shook" are perfectly valid responses when finding out that Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" is, in fact, a cover. This week, Your Playlist Sucks hosts Mark Horosko and Enbani Moore tackle the world of genre-bending covers and transformational sounds, sampling, and the like, with some of their most fascinating discussions yet. Listen to the full playlists here or follow us on Spotify. What makes a good cover and can covering another artist's music ever be considered cultural appropriation? What if you're Eric Clapton and you c...2020-08-1955 min
Your Playlist SucksI Don't Know You But Your Playlist Sucks: Ode to FourteenHosts Mark Horosko and Enbani Moore meet for the second time ever and get to know each other through the music playlists they made as “odes to their 14-year-old selves.” Mark and Enbani reflect on a recent New York Times study of Spotify listener data that found that men's musical taste forms roughly between the ages of 13 to 16, and discuss whether age 14 was foundational, whether the music they listened to then sounds good to them now and how their tastes have changed over time. From rockin’ ‘fros, cliques and 5” growth spurts to Garden State and Air Force Ones, age...2020-08-121h 17