New Ways to Discriminate: “Playlistism”
What is Playlistism you ask? Now that iTunes uses an Apple technology called “Rendezvous” your music collection can shared with those around you. With wireless networks popping up everywhere this leads to some interesting situations. You can now hate/love people based on their terrible taste in music as opposed to the cliche race, religion and other traditional categorizations.
But this technology also gives us a new way to flirt with hot women (or hot men if that’s your fancy):
It had to belong to the girl with dark hair by the counter. I saw her when I got my coffee. Took note, lovely. Her. Her?
There is no music on my PowerBook. I offloaded my library to a drive that is to remain perpetually hooked up to my new Mac mini, serving away at home. Nonetheless, I shared my empty library out under the name “maria i sweat your music collection <3.”
I waited. I listened to selections from her library: Low, Manual. And then the sound skipped. I flipped to iTunes. Her library title had changed: “try_the_new_dalek.”
And he’s not the only one. His entire college campus is now redefining social hierarchy via iTunes libraries:
Aubrey said Wesleyan students are enjoying a new parlor game—going through music libraries trying to guess what their owners are like. At any one time, 30 or 40 iTunes libraries are available on the campus network, which is shared by about 2,000 students.
“This one playlist had a lot of German techno,” Aubrey said. “We predicted this was a kid wearing a mesh shirt who wanted to be a Nazi.” At a party shortly afterward, Aubrey recognized the playlist and asked whose music it was. “They pointed to this kid in a mesh shirt with a swastika on his arm,” Aubrey said.
Now excuse us while we go delete all the German Techno tracks from our iTunes. We wouldn’t want to give any potential mates the wrong idea.
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