Just the Classics

WHAT MUSIC DO I LISTEN TO? Nigga 852,252 MONTHLY LISTENERS SHUFFLE PLAY OH, YOU KNOW. JUST THE CLASSICS

A spoof of a Spotify artist page shows a man presented as an artist named “Nigga,” with hundreds of thousands of monthly listeners. The joke is that someone claims to listen only to “the classics,” while the absurd artist name implies a deliberately provocative and ridiculous music choice; it is used as an ironic reaction to someone pretending to have refined or mainstream taste. EN: A spoof of a Spotify artist page shows a man presented as an artist named “Nigga,” with hundreds of thousands of monthly listeners. The joke is that someone claims to listen only to “the classics,” while the absurd artist name implies a deliberately provocative and ridiculous music choice; it is used as an ironic reaction to someone pretending to have refined or mainstream taste.

• @afrosidemoon / 37280 2021-03-12