Casting your film…
A film of Listener 1325’s Spotify: 4 people live in it (The Shoreline Troubadour: Bleach lets The Beaches leave salt in the glitter. The Gothic Romantic: The Black Dog turns Lola Young’s confession candle-dark. The Pixel Menace: Jane Remover takes Sue me through a pixel blender. The Radio Romeo: Aperture goes widescreen before Garam & Madu aches.). Together they are IFOM, The Glitter-Teeth Pop Riot: I for Intimate, F for Focused, O for Rooted, M for Mainstream.
A real listener’s reading, shown without their name: The Glitter-Teeth Pop Riot
Who lives in yours?
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Listener 1325’s letters
Four dimensions, read from what Listener 1325 actually plays.
vs Kinetic
Your private setting stays firmly on.
At your center you reach for warmth and closeness - voices, guitars, rooms you can hear breathe. The feeling arrives quietly, even when the edges get loud.
vs Eclectic
One lane, with room for detours.
Your taste holds together as 4 close sides of one sound. You know exactly what you like, and you go deep rather than wide.
vs Rising
You prefer the ground already underfoot.
Your taste is settled. The sides you love now are the sides you have loved - you return rather than wander.
vs Niche
Big hooks get first dibs.
You meet music where most people are - the artists everyone knows, the songs that fill rooms. Shared taste, big rooms.
Listener 1325’s reading
As Brew wrote it to Listener 1325.
Your core is “The Shoreline Troubadour.” The Beaches, 5 Seconds of Summer, and Nessa Barrett give your feelings teeth. You want the heart close, even when the sound turns feral.
“The Gothic Romantic” keeps you close to Taylor Swift and Ethel Cain. “The Pixel Menace” hands the reins to Charli xcx and Jane Remover. Your taste stays familiar, but the riot keeps tenderness from going quiet.
4 people
Brew didn’t ask what Listener 1325 likes. It listened until the clusters showed up - press play on any of them.
Bleach lets The Beaches leave salt in the glitter.
The one where pop gets sharp and chaotic
The 4 bars the film plays for The Shoreline Troubadour: Edge of the Earth - The Beaches
The Beaches
5 Seconds of Summer
Nessa Barrett
Blood OrangeThe Black Dog turns Lola Young’s confession candle-dark.
for dreamy, guitar-lit melancholy
Taylor Swift
Ethel Cain
Sydney Ross Mitchell
Lola YoungJane Remover takes Sue me through a pixel blender.
obsessed with glossy, glitchy hyperpop
The 4 bars the film plays for The Pixel Menace: promise - slayr
slayr
Jane Remover
2hollis
Charli xcxAperture goes widescreen before Garam & Madu aches.
The one with rap-smoothed pop and bedroom bass
The 2 bars the film plays for The Radio Romeo: Obsessica - Malcolm Todd
Malcolm Todd
Ariana Grande
Harry Styles
Tate McRaeOne song
Not Listener 1325’s favorite, not the most played. The one song all of Listener 1325’s people share.
“Bright, glittery pop with sharp chaos and romance-tinged bite fits their riot heart.”
Listener 1325’s Spotify took the test
Brew listened to 2,936 songs from Listener 1325’s artists and found 4 people living in there. Yours takes about a minute.
The film as it posts: a story, cut to Listener 1325’s songs.
A real listener’s reading, shown without their name: The Glitter-Teeth Pop Riot
Who lives in yours?
Free. Sign in with Spotify and get your own reading like this one. Brew adds one private playlist, Fresh Finds, with new music from your top artists. Remove it any time.