• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
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    14 hours ago

    Not a bad song, but playing it for 2 months straight every year is way too much.

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          32 minutes ago

          Theres a lot. Its probably best to check it yourself as i only have second hand knowledge, but I know shes faced allegations of sexual misconduct multiple times, theres the stuff with eminem, theres the claim she stole “all i want for christmas” but i believe that was either dismissed or settled, its just a bunch of stuff. She doesnt seem like a genuinely shitty perosn, but from the sheer number of controversies shes not someone i would want to personally associate with or look up to.

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      12 hours ago

      I have an annoying neighbour. This annoying neighbour plays loud music throughout the day and sometimes the night too.

      This annoying neighbour also happens to have a wireless charging stand with a built in BT speaker. A BT speaker that requires no authentication, no pairing, no nothing. You can just connect to it.

      This annoying neighbour has been suffering from random bouts of Mariah Carey at the most inopportune times - such as 3am - at max volume. I’ve even programmed a Bluetooth controller to keep connecting to it and playing the song at random intervals if it gets paused or the volume reduced. And most recently I’ve been working on figuring out a way to detect when the neighbour plays loud music so I can finally connect the two events in a very obvious way so they finally stop.

      You think hearing it for two months is bad? Try being my annoying neighbour. Doesn’t matter if it’s July, or February, or September, if it’s morning, evening, or barely past midnight, he’s getting his Mariah fix, Careyd over the soundwaves.

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        12 hours ago

        I love you

        Your neighbour probably thinks they’re being haunted by a very festive ghost

        You should set it to play an air raid siren/klaxon with a made up emergency news broadcast, like the purge.

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      8 hours ago

      Yeah, my immediate thought was “Why would anyone voluntarily listen to this song?” and it had nothing to do with the quality of the song.

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    13 hours ago

    This is one of those runaway climate change effects they warned us about. I worry it’s too late to stop it. Next year, it’ll start in August, then June, etc.

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        3 hours ago

        goddamn it the worst (best) part about this is that, being an entity that experiences non-linear time, Q absolutely could experience this montage in this order. (and also force everyone in it to also experience it.) lmao

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    9 hours ago

    Always been amazed this song doesn’t get used for Rickrolling during the last two months of each year. It’s a systemic failure.

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    14 hours ago

    Is it just a load of stores/shops immediately switching to generic xmas playlists after Halloween? To me that’s the only reason I could see there to being a sudden spike. This song is bound to be in most of them. But we’d also need to track other popular xmas tracks.

    (I know there used to be significant music licensing issues about what music could be played in a store, to the public. Don’t know if there is some special Spotify business account now?)

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        10 hours ago

        True. All I can think of is that before it gets to Halloween shops have sold off most of their stock and are in the process of getting all the Xmas stuff out. I’ve been places where they have a Halloween and Xmas mix of songs.

        I’m not ruling out that a few hundred thousand completely random people around the world all decide to listen to Xmas music around the same time. I just think it’s more likely businesses switching to seasonal music as early as possible, and streaming Mariah Carey 20 times a day, causing the big sudden spike.

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        10 hours ago

        October 25th is the date that most stores pull down the Halloween stuff and transition to Christmas stuff. It’s not unusual for most stores to have zero Halloween stuff on the shelves on Halloween.

        The seasonal arrival of Spirit in the many empty commercial buildings has made this worse. Regular stores bring in less merchandize and are often stocking Christmas stuff 2 or 3 weeks before Halloween in my area.