tldr - a guy i worked with played a spotify “recommended for you” playlist that ended up being 90 heavy screamo death metal even though he never listens or likes the genre  i’ve had some funny moments with spotify a little backstory first  i worked for a company as a summer student and the job was 55 hours away from where i lived our shifts were ten days on and four days off  for the days off this other guy and i would drive home after working together for 10 hours a day ten days in a row and then a five and a half-hour drive home was a lot of time to spend together just the travel home and back ended up being like 90 hours of driving over four months  as many of us are i’m very chatty but he wasn’t talkative so some of the drives we’d talk for five hours straight but most were pretty quiet  the guy i was working with did all the driving because he wanted to and also played the music which i was okay with  he played his music over spotify but because of the kind of work we were doing we would all be listening to our own music all day and i guess he just got tired of his own music sometimes and would play spotify playlists  on one of the drives he was like “hmm okay i’m gonna play a ‘recommended for you’ playlist”  the first song that played was heavy metal screaming stuff he looked at me and was shocked “that was weird” he said then he played the next song and again heavy metal screamo stuff the next song was the same there were like 320 songs that weren’t metal on the whole playlist  he told me “i swear i don’t listen to this stuff i don’t know why spotify recommended these for me” it turned out he had some metallica and some other songs from bands that have music near that genre but none of them were like death metal   a pretty hilarious moment happened like two more times that summer   sorry this is long