What If There Were A Coolness Rating?
Is Michael Jackson cool? Who is cooler - Dolly Parton or Ricky Martin? Is Katy Perry cool or a fool? We all know the answer when it comes to Britney; or do we?
Paul Lamere asked these tough questions and more. "Imagine if there was an objective measure for coolness – a number that could be attached to each artist that indicated how ‘cool’ the artist was," he postulated. "We’d be able to do all sorts of interesting things with such a ‘coolness index’. We could make a ‘music makeover’ playlist that would take you from Miley to Miles in 12 songs (consider it a 12-step taste recovery program) or we could create a music rehab playlist that takes you from Amy Winehouse to Kate Nash.
But of course, the concept of cool is too hard to nail down." Or is it?
Last.fm has published a list of tracks that were most frequently deleted users scrobbles (public playlists). Tn other words, these are tracks that Last.fm listeners didn’t want other people to know they had listened to.
But Lamere did not stop there in his coolness quest.









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