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   josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 00:12:26 JST josef

   a while ago there was that "mystery song" which nobody could identify. in fact there have probably been a few of these. the one i remember was from 80s german radio or something. i have no idea if it eventually got identified, but the interesting thing for me was watching all these people on reddit saying "this song is amazing! it sounds like <famous band>! no, it sounds like <other band>!" and many of them were missing a crucial piece of information wrt their outlook on the entire problem:

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     josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 00:12:28 JST josef

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     they were 'music fans' to some extent, but by the replies you can see they're struggling to grasp just how MUCH music is out there, how for every big-name band now immortalized in the popular canon, there was 9 or maybe even 90 others writing similar songs that were literally exactly as good, and the only difference was mostly dumb luck! they couldn't really 'get' this, and kept insisting "it must be an unreleased Dire Straits song" or whatever

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