Third Time's the Charm [Video]

[disguarded]

Hello, everyone. I have another question, but I'll try not to take up too much of your time.

[Unsurprisingly for anyone who's ever spoken to her, Twice is once again only halfway paying attention when she turns on the camera and sets it on a nearby table. Currently, she is busy slowly scrolling down something on a tablet computer of some sort, though it's too hard to tell what she's looking at from this angle.]

The music here, there's... a lot of it, all at once. I'm not used to that. I've been listening to different things, trying to sort out which are worth having on my-- [What's the word again?] --playlists? But it's just too much. Does anyone have any recommendations?

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voice;

[snarkbot]

[ Skeets answers in a distinctly robotic but not monotonous voice. ]

From what I've observed of the Network, it's only a matter of time before someone recommends the Spice Girls.

That being said, while I am not an expert on music I do have an extensive music database downloaded into my system and may be able to make suggestions. Perhaps it may help to narrow down a genre. Are you starting completely from scratch or have you gotten at least one or two songs you like?

[disguarded]

[And Twice's is monotonous but not robotic in return! How funny!]

I'm not sure. I've heard several different genres, but it's hard for me to rank them. There's just so much variety, of them and in them both.

[A pause.]

I didn't really like the death metal though.

[snarkbot]

Perhaps you need a way of narrowing them down, ma'am. There are several options to do this. One is to create a list of most well-known music genres and search for the most popular songs belonging to those genres. Two or three each to give yourself a sampling.

Alternatively, you may start contemporary and work your way back. Find a "top ten" list of this year, and then each year for the past couple of years.

There's all sorts of methods, I assume.

[disguarded]

Yes, I searched for something like that online, but there were so many different lists I had to start trying to narrow those down too. That's when I decided to ask for recommendations here.

Even at the most extreme, it could only be a hundred or so answers. Much more manageable.

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[outofthepast]

I can't say I've got too wide a range of musical interests... [Due to most of the music in the world being kind of. Exploded, where he comes from.]

You like jazz? Ella Fitzgerald's real good. I like the early rock and roll stuff too.

[disguarded]

[Yeah, kind of her problem too. Finding a source of music that is working, powerable, portable, and varied is rare indeed.

In any case, she thinks for a moment.]

I don't dislike what I've heard, but that hasn't been much. What about those makes them good?

[outofthepast]

Catchy with a good tune, I guess.

If you're really into music as a thing, though, you could say that it's all real fundamental. Beginning of the genre and all that. They made up a lot of the sound that was popular through the 20th and 21st centuries.

[disguarded]

Of this world or yours?

[outofthepast]

Both, as far as I can remember.

The selection's a little... restrictive back home, though. The variety here's pretty nice.

[disguarded]

Yes, that's one nice thing about this place, isn't it? It's so easy to find all sorts of things.

[Music, nice clothes, food, etc. etc.]

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[nastygram]

ok everybody is going to have recs but most of the recs will suck
tread carefully grasshopper


name me some songs you're looking at rn

[disguarded]

[There's a long pause before she switches over to text to respond.]

I heard a few songs by someone called Frank Sinatra for the first time recently. I forget the specific names.

Also Kesha.

Both weren't bad.

[nastygram]

sinatra = old af
ole blue eyes was, surprise surprise, kind of a dickbag
if u like crooners and grandpas i guess he's fine

kesha = toooootally manufactured synthpop pop-rap dance trash
lacks cred but girlfriend knows how to game and you gotta respect that

plus friggin tik tok will be stuck in my head forEVER

[disguarded]

[This pause is for a different reason! Take a guess what it might be.]

Do you have better suggestions then? Your favorites, maybe? It's almost all new to me.

[nastygram]

yes i will help you get some taste
yw


rem
nin
massive attack
sonic youth
soundgarden
smashing pumpkins
nirvana bc CLASSIC
ONLY early green day, do not cross past 95

acid house MY FAV is stakker humanoid
skinny puppy
severed heads

and get you some cyndi lauper for pop bs
plus kesha + tik tok i am not kidding that is me at my most self friggin indulgent

text;

[postcog]

As someone who comes from a world where electricity powered devices are the thing of myths, I'm finding it really difficult to digest most of the music I've found so far.

It's as if someone mixed the sounds of a cheese grater and a particularly powerful "printer" and threw some random words to fill in the gaps.

text

[disguarded]

Yes, I have some idea how that feels.

Has there been any music you did like though?

text

[postcog]

I have found that some artists don't actually use "electric" instruments all the time, but I have yet to make a comprehensive list of them and their songs, as it doesn't seem to be the rule.

[disguarded]

I'm not sure anyone could make that, really. There's just too much to go through.

[postcog]

Well, as soon as I find the free time I should at least make some progress.

Oh, there is also this so called "unplugged" that some artists do or did? They redo their songs without the electrical things, so that's nice.

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[pummelgranite]

Uh, just to clarify. When you mean "a lot of music" do you mean you never heard rock n roll before you got here?

[disguarded]

Not "never." But not much.

It wasn't easy to find a music player where I was before this that lasted for long and had much variety.

[pummelgranite]

OK, well, almost all of the native music here sucks. What have you heard so far?

[disguarded]

A little of a lot of things, I guess? And a lot of it bad, you're right.

Trying to narrow down is hard though. I'm holding more songs in my hand right now than I even knew existed in the world before.

[pummelgranite]

Uh . . . here, try these too.


[ She sends a few musical files over: some Beyonce, David Bowie, Daft Punk, FKA Twigs. That's a good spread, right? ]