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 the numbers show
Counted from the threads quoted below. How we count
- This comes up 14.0× more often in r/Teachers than across the site as a whole.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
Share your steps and trade-offs so fellow engineers don't have to reinvent the wheel. No account required.
- 1Building personal playlists of requests independently rather than relying on direct student recommendationsDid this help you?
- 2Sharing one's own music tastes to find common groundDid this help you?
- 3Embracing the cliché songs and ignoring self-consciousnessDid this help you?
- 4Using remixes and mashups by DJs to make classics feel freshDid this help you?
- 5Creating a strict do-not-play list for songs that are truly unbearableDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“How do you make them work without the cringe coming in?”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 ↗
“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 ↗
Where this came up
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