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I am not a Google Home or Alexa user, and I honestly can't tell if this is meant to be sarcastic.

Semi-serious.

It regularly picks up an entirely bizarre song, however in doing so it's also found some bangers. My kid loves diggy-diggy hole and it played the wind rose version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU) which is awesome.

I asked for I wanna be like you for the kids and got the expected one a few times. Then one time it returned the triple J version by the Psychedelic Porn Crumpets (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD0VpmaSBjs) which became the new version for running around the room pretending to be a rollercoaster.

These are covers at least, but it will also just play the weirdest mishearings of something.

So semi-serious as I'm mocking it getting things wildly wrong, but also legitimately we discover new music this way.

> Then one time it returned the triple J version by the Psychedelic Porn Crumpets

The name made me laugh out loud but the recommends delivered this:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtua5kEsbGX_1HhY4OQAg...

Allready diggin the first one of 100. Thank you sooo much!

> Then one time it returned the triple J version by the Psychedelic Porn Crumpets

The name made me laugh out loud but the recommends delivered this:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtua5kEsbGX_1HhY4OQAg...

Allready diggin the first one of 100, 95 to go. Thank you!

If you like this kind of thing, also checkout the radio 1 live lounge stuff. Been going for a long time so I think there's playlists with a couple of hundred songs and they'll be a small amount of the full sets. Often tends towards more acoustic but you can find some great covers.

It's a joke. Google Assistant is notoriously awful and at home we often kid that if we ask it to play 90's rock on Spotify it will play some animal documentary on Netflix. It's not too far from the truth.

Oh I love that, you ask it for a song, it gets it wrong and thinks you want some video. Then it tries to play the video, can't and acts like you were daft for asking it to do that.

> play 90's rock ... some animal documentary ... not too far from the truth

Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch?

Somehow people have polluted and/or the assistants are too stupid to play well known songs from voice prompts. You get weird covers with clearly synthesized backing or random crap. It’s honestly weird. The covers shouldn’t even be on system half the time.

It is, or at least facetious

only somewhat sarcastic. At least once a week Alexa will play an off the wall unrelated song or a crazy cover of the desired song.

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