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freddieandersen · 3 months ago

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the carpentry crew got sick of listening to the same pop playlists at work yesterday (Spotify algorithm makes everything so samey even if you try vastly different starting points) so for the last two hours of the workday I went out on a limb and requested opera bangers. it went over terrifically despite initial skepticism. makes sense once I realized that classical music (“classical” in the broadest sense) is what we use culturally to signal elevated moments of high drama or emotion. even sweeping sawdust feels epic when carmina burana is the soundtrack

#i got a good grade in workplace music taste something that is reasonable to want and possible to achieve #I’m so shy about music requests bc my actual listening habits are either a niche we have not explored as a group #ie irish-language folk tunes or kpop (could go over well but likely polarizing and I’m scared)#or things I know other people also like but are not gonna get us through the workday (soft folkpop/folk rock for contemplative lesbians)#many people at work enjoy listening to hozier but in a week is simply not gonna give you the oomph to pick up the 300 pound wall #the coworker who is most irritated by the samey playlists is in fact a surprise opera enjoyer so I also satisfied his tastes! HAH!#i will go mad with power and next thing they know they’ll be trapped in four hours of 15th c Italian madrigals #tree.txt

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