News
Last.fm lists users' most deleted tracks
Tracks
1. Britney Spears - Piece Of Me
2. Nelly Furtado - Say It Right
3. Britney Spears - Gimme More
4. Amy Winehouse - Rehab
5. Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend
Artists
1. [unknown]
2. The Beatles
3. Radiohead
4. Britney Spears
5. Avril Lavigne
On the artists side of the chart, The Beatles and Radiohead make sense -- users probably delete Kid A tracks en vrac to allow other, less-known artists to top their charts. But Britney Spears and Avril, along with pretty much all of the tracks, are grounds for some serious sociological speculating. There are guilty pleasures -- ones we admit to without compunction because, y’know, they’re funny or ironic -- and then there are tastes we would never admit to, for fear of utterly destroying our social being. Which are these? It makes one wonder what the list would look like if it were expanded.
More on Avril Lavigne
Illinois Man Gets 40 Years For Killing Mom Over Avril Lavigne Tickets
"Alice" (Live on Leno) (Video)
- Watch Nicki Minaj's Insane Grammy Performance Of 'Roman ...
- Did The Bonnaroo 2012 Lineup Leak? | Prefix
- Paul McCartney : 'My Valentine' (Live At Grammys) ...
- Watch Adele's Comeback Performance At The Grammys (Video) ...
- Watch The Beach Boys' Grammy Performance With Maroon ...
- Watch Bruce Springsteen's Grammy Performance (Video) | Prefix
- New Order, Joy Division Masters Found Under Manchester ...
- Look At These Ridiculous 'Who Is Paul McCartney?' ...
- Listen: Diplo And Usher Collaborate On 'Climax' | ...
- Bruno Mars: 'Runaway Baby' (Live At Grammys) (Video) ...
- The Make-Up Reforms For ATP Event In London
- Quarantining The Past: Liz Phair's 'Exile In Guyville" And Lana Del Rey
- Dirty Three: Toward the Low Sun
- Damien Jurado: Maraqopa
- New Order, Joy Division Masters Found Under Manchester Restaurant
- Watch Erykah Badu & Mark Ronson Perform "A La Modeliste" On Letterman
- Watch: RZA Talks 'Californication,' His iPhone App On 'Conan'
- Stream New Albums From Sleigh Bells, Grimes, Poliça
- Official Bonnaroo 2012 Lineup Announced
- Listen: Diplo And Usher Collaborate On "Climax"
- MMOTHS: "Heart" F. Keep Shelly In Athens (Video) (Prefix Premiere)
- Mixtape Roundup: Curren$y, Deniro Farrar, Gucci Mane, Jackie Chain, Project Pat And Nasty Mane
- Errors: Have Some Faith in Magic
- Mux Mool: Planet High School
That's pretty awesome that they unveiled this list. I'm actually surprised Radiohead isn't #1.
It's funny what we attempt to hide... Maybe we can find a positive spin in all of this and hope beyond hope that people are moving on to better and different music (and not just Avril or Britney or Amy #2).
The poptimist in me wants to say that the deleted artists list is somehow "truer" than the profiles we actually present to our last.fm friends. But then again I love Britney and Avril unapologetically.
They should release a list of the users who deleted Britney and Avril, just to call the guilty pleasure listeners out.
As if the stakes of profile purty weren't high enough...I guess the list indicates to me that "guilty pleasure" doesn't account for some of what's going on here. Cos you ultimately fess up to guilty pleasures, right? There's some stuff you listen to, though, that's verboten to even acknowledge. Like Death in June or P!nk.