Last.fm: Tagging artists with their own name.
Why? Why do people insist on tagging artists with the artists name, or other artists name?
For example, Nine Inch Nails, is tagged as Nine Inch Nails. No, really? Are we sure this is NIN? Might we forget that Nine Inch Nails is in fact, Nine Inch Nails, if we don’t tag it as such?
Heres an example of tagging artists with other artists names. Boards of Canada, Error Unknown, and Thalassa are all tagged Aphex Twin. Guess what. None of those artists are Aphex Twin.
Can we at least all make the extra effort to put “music like” in front of the artist your comparing it too? For example, Squarepusher could be tagged “music like aphex twin“. Its literally only 10 extra characters. It seems like a small price to pay to not look like a retarded bastard who’s cluttering Last.fm with stupid tags.
Arguably, there are some cases where it may have a point. In the instance of artists like Aphex Twin and Syndrone who have recorded under multiple names. But for the sake of organization and cleanliness, can we just not? You know that Polygon Window is Aphex Twin, so is it really necessary to tag it as Aphex Twin?
That is all.
July 18th, 2008 at 11:43 am
yes I know, I see it all the time…. it’s rather annoying though what was amusing is when I was tagging a song/artist & was given the list of it’s current tags, 1 being the artist themself, I decided to click on it & I get a pop up saying “you’re trying to tag an artist as themself. Try using a different tag” um… ok? lol
Anyway, like the new format tho!