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Spotify surveying users on best tracks for “music moments”

By | Published on Friday 18 October 2013

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Spotify is inviting UK users to vote on the tracks that best suit their “music moments”, which basically means picking the best songs for driving, getting a party started, getting through Monday morning or surviving a hangover.

However, before you all think that this is a great opportunity to annoy the Spotify naysayers by forcing Radiohead and Talking Heads tracks to the top of all these polls, voters have to pick from shortlists of five for each category.

Though those who like to annoy pop stars might want to let Hanson know they are up for the Best One Hit Wonder category. Spotify will presumably side-step the wrath of Hanson fans (yes, they still exist) by stressing that the shortlists are based on the songs that most frequently appear in user-created playlists on their platform that are based around each topic.

So it’s Spotify users, rather than Spotify itself, that think that the best way to ‘get a party started’ is to swot up on all the excuses you could use if you accidentally rape someone before the night is out. Ah, those ‘Blurred Lines’ are everywhere, aren’t they?

Says Spotify VP Global Communications Angela Watts of the user survey: “We can’t wait to hear which track gets wallflowers strutting their stuff on the dance floor…. or the song that gets even the laziest person turning the treadmill up a notch at the gym”.

Vote via this link, or peruse and angrily critique to yourself the shortlists here:

Best Driving Song
1. Meat Loaf – Bat Out Of Hell
2. Eric Clapton – Layla
3. The Rolling Stones – Start Me Up
4. Steppenwolf – Born To Be Wild
5. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody –

Best Hangover Cure
1. Avicii – Wake Me Up
2. Taio Cruz – Flo Rida Hangover
3. Kanye West – Stronger
4. The Commodores – Easy
5. Bruno Mars – The Lazy Song

Best Guilty Pleasure
1. Journey – Don’t Stop Believin’
2. Backstreet Boys – Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)
3. Britney Spears – Baby One More Time
4. Irene Cara – Flashdance… What A Feeling
5. Wilson Philips – Hold On

Best Song to Get Over An Ex
1. Adele – Someone Like You
2. Kelis – Caught Out There
3. Justin Timberlake – Cry Me A River
4. Taylor Swift – We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
5. Beyoncé – Best Thing I Never Had

Best Party Starter
1. Avicii – Levels
2. Robin Thicke, TI, Pharrell – Blurred Lines
3. Beyoncé – Crazy In Love
4. Bee Gees – Night Fever
5. Chic – Le Freak

Best Work Out Song
1. Shakira, Wycleaf Jean – Hips Don’t Lie
2. Eminem – Lose Yourself
3. LMFAO – Sexy And I Know It
4. Survivor – Eye Of The Tiger
5. Snoop Dogg, David Guetta – Sweat

Best One Hit Wonder
1. Vanilla – Ice Ice Ice Baby
2. Hanson – MMMBop
3. Los Del Rio – Macarena
4. Aqua – Barbie Girl
5. Right Said Fred – I’m Too Sexy

Best Monday Song
1. The Bangles – Manic Monday
2. Death Cab For Cutie – Monday Morning
3. New Order – Blue Monday
4. The Mamas And The Papas – Monday Monday
5. The Boomtown Rats – I Don’t Like Mondays

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