What Is “Escape Room” and Why Is It One of My Top Genres on Spotify?

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by sprokolopolis • 4 years ago

1 1 4 years ago

I was browsing music on Spotify and kept seeing this "Escape Room" genre label on what seemed to be very divergent artists. I noticed that particular bands connected to genres such as industrial, hip hop, noise, pop, indie, lofi, jazz, IDM, psychedelic and punk were all being tagged "Escape Room". I found this all very curious, so I consulted google and found this article.

The genre is one generated organicaly from spotify-users' listening habits. The spotify reccomendation algorithm grouped these artists together, despite being quite different on the surface. The article discusses the everynoise.com site, which is a very interesting and useful tool that maps all genres on Spotify. I've used this tool in the past. I looked up "Escape Room" on everynoise and found that many bands that I listen to are in it, mostly along the outside edges of the cloud, but a few toward the core.

I never noticed many similarities between some of these bands, so I found it very interesting that spotify was able to lump them all together and find commonality between them.

What Is “Escape Room” and Why Is It One of My Top Genres on Spotify?

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