Day 25

Listening the the Happy hour playlist I found yesterday has been the most interesting part of this experiment. Offering me a playlist filled with popular songs from the 60s and 70s was not something I expected when going into this. This playlist was filled with Soul music, early Rock and Roll and the contemporary music of that time. 

This is the RA showcasing its diversification tools first-hand and shows that you can experience little pockets of "new music" occasionally.

Overall I feel like this will just become a personalised illusion and my base recommendations will stay the same. However, the fact that I have been recommended this is still very cool. It shows that the RA can diversify the content you are recommended and that there is a, ill be it small, way to find new genres and music that is different from your main recommendations on the app.

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