FICTOBER '24

Discover

# Made for You! #

"Pchtttt. It's always the same old 20 songs in the random loop. I need to find some new tracks", cursing the Spotify's shuffle, Alex opened the 'Made for You' discover section on the App.

He checked for a while. Read few titles. Tried few songs. Nothing clicked him. Then, he scrolled randomly and played a song. Surprisingly, it was so refreshing compared to his usual playlist. He then listened few other songs from the same artist. Motivation, Romance, Life Struggles, YOLO - Songs from every theme were great.

Alex found his new fav composer that day. He really wanted to discover more. He entered the artist's name in Google. The whole new world opened to him.

First, the artist stopped making music few years ago. Before that, the artist was in all time peak, won several awards, even ran a music school. Alex wanted to know further. He searched for the reason behind the artist's retirement.

There were several allegations and cases on the artist on ill treating the music students on the studio. "Many popular people had such allegations. Nobody is safe from fame", Alex thought to himself and scrolled to discover further.

Everything seemed simple until a news of a death. It went to a new link and Alex followed. Long story short, the artist had beaten the students heavily during the classes and broke few hands with guitars, smashed some heads on the drums, etc. The news was kept well hidden until a child died of choking by the guitar string. The artist said 'the music should beat you; mold you; create you. Then you can create music'. He was clearly a psychopath and he was serving life sentence in prison.

Shocked by this discovery, Alex closed the browser and went back to Spotify. Now, he hated the artist and the works. He couldn't listen to the artists' anymore. He switched to an another song from an another artist. It was so pleasent and soulful. Alex really liked it and immediately wanted to discover more about the artist.

But, he paused for a while, silently moved the song to his fav playlist and closed the discover tab!