Why do students always give bad music recommendations?
Most student song suggestions fail to match their teachers' tastes because educators often have niche or particular preferences. This mismatch leads to most recommendations being skipped or ignored, preventing teachers from finding new music through their students despite occasional successes.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Building personal playlists of requests independently rather than relying on direct student recommendations
- 2Sharing one's own music tastes to find common ground
- 3Embracing the cliché songs and ignoring self-consciousness
- 4Using remixes and mashups by DJs to make classics feel fresh
- 5Creating a strict do-not-play list for songs that are truly unbearable
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“How do you make them work without the cringe coming in?”source ↗
“Never, but i teach elementary.”source ↗
“Lots don't hit the mark, but the ones that do are great.”source ↗
“I'm sure many of them have been good to someone, but I haven't liked any of them. I'm pretty odd and picky with what art I enjoy.”source ↗
“Gotten 2 that made my playlist, one is Folie Arcadienne and the other is Made in Japan. But most are not nearly as great”source ↗
“I haven’t gotten good music recommendations really”source ↗
“Speaking as someone who loves alt rock/indie rock/hip hop if my wedding was just going to be me out there I’d be playing it all but I know the majority of people attending don’t like that stuff so it’s time to embrace the cringe.”source ↗
Where this came up
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