a blog I wrote a few months ago on my iPhone

I recently had my iPod on shuffle and 3 songs within 5 had “want” in the title. That menial fact stood out merely because I’m trying shake wanting someone (and as the fraudulent “laws of attraction” theory goes, when you think about something enough it starts revealing itself…Apple’s iTunes fuck ass shuffle algorithm dun mastered the law of attraction.)

So the independent researcher I (think I) am attempted to rationalize a conclusion based on a question and a few facts.

What does the music I put on my phone say about my interests?

I began with a search in my phone for songs with “want” in it to get an accurate percentage of songs.

17 songs out of 2,618. Statistically typing, that’s less than 1% (0.6%).

To offer some more context to this meager # I decided to compare it with other keywords that I felt were popular in the lexicon among my prefered genres.

I shallowly decided to use the words “love”, “hate”, “you”, “me”, “black”, “white” (and to spice it up a bit and to reflect my true “urban” taste, I also decided to test the words “bitch” & “nigga” – this is not a co-sign or endorsement for men/misogynists & non-black people to use these words, just a reflection of my musical selections.)

Love = 213, 8.1%
Hate = 5, 0.2%
You = 278 (includes youth/young…I didn’t feel like weeding out the songs since I’m typing this str8 from my iPhone ) 10.6%
Me = 206, 7.9%
Black = 74, 2.8%
White = 9, 0.3%
Fuck = 17, 0.6%
Bitch = 16, 0.6%
Nigga = 22, 0.8%

My first conclusion is that, I’m hella glad “love & you” dominated the song titles versus the latter three words searched. Love is a beautiful subject and I feel good knowing that majority of the songs I listen to encourage some level of love.

Other than that, I can only say I have a variety of musical tastes & interests and this janky ass research is inconclusive lol. But feel free to try it yourself.

Methodology: search keywords in “songs” category (artist & album names included, I ain’t got time to do a legit QA/QC check of qualified songs since I’m doing this str8 from my iPhone!)