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Nationality tags

Nationality tags

When listening to a band that is not from the States or Britain, Spotify tags the songs according to the ethnicity of the performer. Firstly this is very annoying because one minute you're listening to heavy metal and the next minute your Artist Radio assumes you want to follow up with ABBA. This is based solely on the fact that both bands are Swedish. This would be acceptable if the bands had anything in common other than nationality. For instance Finnish Dance Music is a good tag, but having your favorite indie rock album being followed by the runner up in Voice of Finland is not okay.
Secondly the whole grouping of artists according to their naionality feels a little racist. It feels as though the developers have no interest in the art the performers are producing, but only in the country they represent.

Attached are some screenshots of the Album Radio for Finnish band Rubik. The mixture of bands include have nothing in common except nationality.
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