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Yep, you're right - some folks evidently just love stepping up to a trough of music slop without thinking about it.
What do you recommend for finding new music?
Usually I go with recommendations from friends and also listening to a lot of stuff I don't know if I'll like or not. NPR Tiny Desk concerts are great to figure out if you vibe with an artist. Also a huge fan of the Sofar Sounds channel on YouTube - found a bunch of artists I wouldn't have found otherwise. Also like to find interviews with artists I already like and find out what influenced them or what they're listening to now. I don't collect much vinyl, but love going to record shops and seeing what I can find.
Look, if you're an enthusiast, that sounds great. Me, I don't get recommendations from friends - even if a friend recommends something, I don't usually bother listening anymore because in my personal case, the only ones who mention the artists they discover, have such a wildly different taste in music I just get nothing out of it.
The NPR Tiny Desk concerts sound cool, actually there's a similar concept in a local public radio in my country called "mini live" where an artist or group of artists present one or two songs (sometimes an original and a cover). But that's one episode a week and who knows if I'm even listening to the radio at that time. I don't really seek out radio programmes, I just listen to radio while driving.
I just find it easier to... Put on a song I know I like on YouTube Music, and let it autoplay similar shit. If I run into shit I dislike, I skip it and click dislike. If I find something new I like, I check out the name of the song, click like and if it's something I really like, then next time I might just start from that song, or listen to other songs from the same artist.
Currently the song I most often start off with is NF - Story which usually gives me, in some order, some of his other great tracks, and many other great hip-hop artists. Put it this way, the algorithm already knows not to give me Drake or Ye, but also knows I like Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, etc. And occasionally sprinkles in lesser known artists that tend to be good too. That's how I discovered NF in fact. Not that he's super unknown, but compared to Em and Kendrick, he might as well be nameless lol
I find I'm just so drained from all that's going on in my life, I don't have the energy to put into a discovery process like yours. I'm literally minmaxing finding music I like for as little effort as possible lol
Also just to add, I just do this on desktop with adblock enabled. On my phone I listen to podcasts and in the car it's public broadcast radio (so no ads)