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  2020-06-06

  Currents

  During the COVID-19 lockdown, I was bored. I started to listen to an unprecedented amount of music. Including music from the artist Tame Impala. This photo shows me listening to his “Currents” album via Spotify. Currents is now one of my favorite albums of all time. Everytime I listen to a song from it, I think back to 2020 and as a result, that time holds a sentimental value to me.
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  2022-01-29

  Save our Children Tour?

  The anti-vaxxers are out in full force. Disguising themselves as Patriots dedicated to personal freedoms and, for some reason, the saviors of children? This Save Our Children tour harkens back to Anita Bryant’s homophobic “Save Our Children” movement in the 1970s but it’s unclear if they’re the same thing? No about page on their website. I find this disturbing that not only are people hesitant to get vaccinated, some groups are mobilizing to spread misinformation and disinformation about the vaccines as well. This comes in the tail of Neil Young’s ultimatum he delivered to Spotify about their hosting of Joe Rogan’s podcast. Neil Young and now Joni Mitchell have demanded that Spotify drop their music if they keep hosting Joe Rogan. Spotify’s stocks are way down since they chose Joe Rogan over Neil Young.
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  2021-01-28

  Hobbies and Scrapbooks of Quarantine

  This was made for a group project that a group of 6th graders did when they interviewed the middle school.
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  2021-01-12

  Mariya Takeuchi

  With the re-release of Plastic Love onto Spotify, I have been listening to it on repeat for hours on end to help through the melancholic times of the monotony known as these wretched times. This art resonated with me, so thus I submit it along with other art that I feel encapsulates the soul of creative thinkers during this time.
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  2020-11-04

  A Puzzling Distraction

  HIST30060. Millions of people picked up hobbies during their respective lockdowns, mine happened to be puzzles. A few in this photo I had before lockdown, but most was bought in the lead up to, as well as during. I bought my first colour puzzle about a month before lockdown started, when I first discovered the board games store Mind Games in Melbourne's CBD, though I did not touch it until study at home began. These puzzles gave me something I could be good at, with only one still incomplete months after I first got it (in my defence, it changes colour). They allowed me to multitask, I would watch movies for university while I had a puzzle in front of me, I discovered so much music through my Spotify recommended playlists that have become solid favourites, I've caught up on podcasts that were usually relegated to my daily commute to university. They gave me something I could control, in a time of change and confusion, a welcome distraction from everything happening outside of my house.
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  2020-10-20

  Carly's Quarantunes

  This is a playlist of songs I've listened to during quarantine and an explanation about each of them.
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  2020-04

  “I feel like for me it really hasn't affected it too much."

  “I feel like for me it really hasn't affected it too much. I think it really just affected the way things go about because my religion is Christianity so before covid-19 we would meet on a weekly basis at a church and from there everybody gathers together so it's a really close room with a lot of people in it and since covid-19 and social distancing is in place we really can't meet so a lot of the operations in the church have gone more to a social platform they start uploading services every week on YouTube…”
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  2020-05-01

  Preservation Hall Jazz Band Partners with Spotify to Fund Musicians, New Orleans, LA

  During the COVID-19 pandemic, many New Orleans Musicians are out of work. The Preservation Hall Jazz Band partners with Spotify to raise funds to support 60 local musicians associated with the Preservation Hall Musical Collective. This Facebook post reads: "Help support Preservation Hall musicians with a MATCHED donation to the Preservation Hall Foundation. We are eternally grateful to our friends at Spotify, who have pledged to match contributions to support the 60 musicians of the Preservation Hall Musical Collective, dollar-for-dollar. Your donation or merch order from the new Foundation online store will have DOUBLE the impact on our efforts to provide financial support and resources to our beloved family of New Orleans musicians. Without these men and women, there is no Preservation Hall. Shop or donate to support the Fund at preshallfoundation.org/spotify-music-relief."
• 2020-03-19

  BLuey Strings

  A Playlist Created During Quarantine CSU
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  2020-04-07

  COVID 19 Journal: 04/07/2020

  COVID 19 Journal by Kaitlin Whalen written 04/07/2020
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  2020-04-22

  Spotify Announces In-App Artist Fundraising Feature

  Artists can now raise money for themselves, their crew, or a charity directly through the Spotify app
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  2020-03-27

  The Soul Rebels QuaranTune Playlist, New Orleans, LA

  New Orleans brass band The Soul Rebels, unable to tour and perform live music, engages with fans remotely by creating music playlist on Spotify.