#25

how did you finally get it? it’s eating at me now

#26

I refreshed it a few times in Chrome. it didn’t work in Microsoft Edge, no idea why I was using that in the first place, but anyway. after the second time of 100% analysing, it gave me a get results thing button at the top of the video.

#27

I got 60/40 Male/Female split. I think it must be based on quite recent listening trends as although the last 2-3 years have seen me listening to a lot of female artists prior to that I think the male percentage would have been much higher

#28

Quite fancy a vodka now

#29

Shite drink, shite app.

I was also 100% men according to their tiny comparison dataset.

#30

I got 85% men to 15% women, which I find really hard to believe (could be wrong though). And yeah when I ‘equalized’ my playlist it gave me stuff like Travis Scott and Blink-182 :confused:

Nice idea, but poorly executed?

#31

You Listened To 100% Carly Rae Jepsen

good site, would use again

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#32

Same, appears to be broken.

#33

Said 100% men for me which isn’t true, dunno why it didn’t work (of my 10 saved albums 6 are by men/male bands 4 are by women, my saved playlist is about the same split). The suggested playlist all seems to be a completely arbitrary list that has nothing to do with what I listen to, so presumably stuff that Spotify and Smirnoff want to push for financial reasons. Great way to celebrate female artists.

#34

Honestly thought when I read the thread title this morning that this was going to be an app/plug in that automatically equalised play to 50/50

that would have been a bold & interesting move from Spotify for IWD

shame, would be so easy to do

#35

Yeah this came up as 100% for me. Would be a good tool if it actually worked

#36

can only imagine the shitstorm it would kick up from MRa types though

#37

But to be fair, the MRAs throw tantrums over pretty much anything. They’ll probably try to boycott Smirnoff & Spotify over this anyway, so they might as well gone hard.

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#38

says i listen to 95% men vs 5% women. can’t be right. my main binges last year were Daughter, Liz Phair, Fiona Apple, Angel Olsen and Waxahatchee

#39

think of all that juicy publicity

#40

I’m not quite sure how to answer that. I suppose there is some truth in what you say, but I’m still not too comfortable about modifying my listening habits according to whether the artist has a hole or a pole. I am certainly not conscious of any bias on my part, and there are some genres, such as folk, where I probably listen more to women than to men and where female voices can be better suited to the genre. If I were a metalhead (which I am not) I would probably listen only to males.

Maybe the best response as a member of the music buying and listening public is simply to be aware of the issue, be prepared to name and shame record companies, radio stations and festival promoters that exhibit blatant gender bias, and consider taking your business elsewhere or at least consciously supporting events that are gender-neutral.

#41

Not saying there’s any gender bias on your part. It’s just that if there is no conscious effort to listen to more women on your part, it is 99.9% likely that your listening tendencies will always be skewed because the music industry is constantly encouraging listeners to pay more attention to male acts than female-inclusive ones.

I actively make an effort to listen to as many female artists/bands with women as I can to compensate. It doesn’t mean I’m discriminating against men (I still listen to plenty), it just means I’m starting to redress in a very small amount the discrimination that’s made against women (and PoC, etc) by normal “unbiased listening”. There is more than enough amazing music being made by women to have one’s listening preferences split more evenly - it just depends on how much research you’re doing, who you’re listening to for recommendations, etc.

None of which is to say you have an active bias or prejudice against female women. The alternatives you suggest are valid, but I personally don’t think there’s anything wrong with making an active effort to listen to more women and other oppressed categories in music.

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#42

Not against ANY women, and especially not those of the female variety. :smiley:

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#43

Had to Brannigan it didn’t I?:smiley:

#44

Have never had a thought process along the lines of “I feel I should listen to a female musician now to balance with the number of male musicians I listen to” and I don’t intend to anytime soon.