i had my decemberists station fired up on pandora. here are the artists for the last six songs it's played:
decemberists
decemberists
death cab
tarkio
neutral milk hotel
decemberists
see the problem here? tarkio is colin meloy's old band, so four of these six songs featured his admirable voice. that's too much, though, for a service that supposedly provides a radio-like functionality exposing listeners to a variety of artists. pandora's supposed genius comes from paying a bunch of people to minutely examine the musical features of songs. this data is used to create stations with musical similarities to the artist or song you've identified as a favorite. it's ridiculous to do all that work and ignore something as simple as the fact that you're playing songs with the same guy's voice over and over.
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