Spotify delves into hipsterism

Some will say that with just grow a beard and wear a plaid shirt we have already reached the maximum level of hipsterism but... What is more hipster than talking about music groups that nobody knows? What is more hipster than referring to musical influences only suitable for hardened music lovers?

A true hipster knows bands that no one else has ever heard of in their life. A true hipster knows how to recognize influences from the Kinks in the cry of a baby. A true hipster jumps from Madness to Primal Scream without blinking because he knows that, deep down, they are related groups.

Well, this is what Spotify offers us now. The new feature, recently introduced (and no, it has nothing to do with growing a beard) is called Artist Explorer and offers us a magnificent tour of how different musical groups relate to each other, whether through influence or coexistence over time.

Thanks to this function we can learn a lot about the history of a group both in its relationship with other groups as well as in its level of penetration in Spotify; that is, the popularity of the artist, the songs that have been played the most times or a brief biography of the band with the names of its members, their city of origin, the musical genre in which they operate and details about how they were born as a group.

With this we will all be able to know a little more about how the history of music unfolds; a history in which artists such as Tylor Swift, for now (although this may not be a musical loss in itself).