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LocalConspiracy138 t1_ja4wul3 wrote

Thoughts like that can spiral though, especially when you add attributes to those thoughts and they aren't correlated.

For example, if you listen to Cannibal Corpse and something bad happens to you, you might think one had happened because of the other, when really both are unconnected events and the bad thing would've happened if you didn't listen to anything at all. You are thinking about somehow there is a connection and there isn't. It's likely a string of events totally unrelated to whatever was going on in your headphones that you connected with the idea of vibes are real. I think it falls under Apophenia in psychology.

Don't let it get out of control or you might eventually hear Ozzy on the radio at a restaurant and move into a 4 room basement house in the middle of nowhere surrounded by out buildings, metal towers, and storage trailers to avoid government surveillance and demons like my dad.

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JaymesGrl t1_ja4w1ud wrote

One that's really famous in that country and has a rabid fan base.

Kim Kardashian would be swamped by paparazzi and her fans would just be taking mobile phone pictures, but she's no where near peak MJ in popularity. She's just pretty surgery in nice clothes, very nice clothes, but it's harder to care about someone whose only talent is making themselves look good because they're rich enough to effectively be able to focus on just that as a career.

Some boyband of which there's increasingly less support for that kind of fan base in western countries, but J pop and K pop artists would be a much bigger deal in South Korea and Japan, so may expect similar reactions over there. It's been a while since a boyband in the UK was a force to be reckoned with due to a legion of screaming teenage girls adoring them. Take That in early 90s England had probably the most rabid fan base since The Beatles.

As another poster mentioned, the Internet has diversified our tastes too much for such a cultural monolith to occur again. Something more then human would be needed for such hysteria again. Maybe a Black Friday sale, but that's a completely different kind of thing and not a person.

Beyonce is popular, but she's not MJ big. No one really is. Maybe Trump, but that's more like a cult following and a swindle, plus he's globally speaking way more loathed then he ever was respected (he's also not an artist in the musical sense, unless there's some Kid Rock duet in the works).

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PitchAdvanced4278 t1_ja4uq60 wrote

YouTube for sure. There’s thousands of curated playlists from people and their algorithm is the best, they generally will recommend stuff really close to what you’re listening to

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fergehtabodit t1_ja4tndh wrote

I'm sort of the opposite. Since my hearing in the vocal range is so terrible, I rarely understand the lyrics. If I like a song, it is almost never what it's about at first. The vocals are just another instrument of the music and if it works and I like it at some point I might look up the lyrics and learn what the song is about...but sometimes that does ruin it! An example would be The Killers, Quiet Town. It's kind of slow but I liked the music and melodies. but when I read the lyrics I was like "whoa, that's depressing as shit"

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