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Eat shit Spotify. (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 140 points 2 years ago (5 children)

While I agree that this is stupid, why would a deaf person be using Spotify in the first place?

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  • [–] 244 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Deafness isn't binary, they could be capable of hearing the music but not making out the lyrics.

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  • [–] 83 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And even people who cannot hear anything at all still feel the bass and stuff.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Excuse me while I kiss this guy!

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    (mumbles in yellow led better)

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  • [+] 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)
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  • [+] -27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    Just to clarify definitions that probably wouldn't be considered deafness, it would be an audio processing disorder. Ability to hear music but inability to process the words.

    Deafness is "binary" in that it just means ones ability to hear sound or not. If you can hear sound even slightly then you just have a hearing impairment and are not deaf.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Deafness is commonly understood to include both total and partial hearing loss. Every major dictionary defines it this way. It might have a more precise meaning in some spheres (medical, etc), but in common English it is not binary the way you're suggesting.

    Merriam Webster: deaf

    Dictionary.com: deaf

    Cambridge English dictionary: deaf

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    No it really isn’t. The hard of hearing are considered deaf. There’s complete deafness, much like there’s complete blindness, but the fact that you’re calling it hearing impairment instead of hard of hearing indicates you aren’t as well versed in Deafness (not to be confused with deafness) as you think

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    So I'm not deaf, not in the slightest, but I struggle to understand lyrics in music. I love music, I live and breathe it and I'm gonna dedicate my life to it, but I've always struggled with understanding lyrics in music. To me, the vocalist is just another instrument in the mix. Having lyrics to read helps me appreciate my favorite tunes more!

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    For me it is certain singers that apparently everyone else understands but I cannot without knowing the words ahead of time. Not just mumbling, some voices just don't register clearly for me if I don't know what they are saying.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It can depend on the mixing, too. Not just in regards to volume, but also in how the vocals are edited. My recent obsession has been Dusk at Cubist Castle, shit's absolutely amazing. The way a lot of the vocals are mixed and processed are super cool, like layering the same lines over themselves five times over with subtle delays and panning, it sounds real cool! But it makes it sound a lot more distant to me as a result.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, thst is true. But I'm talking about some popular artists like Pearl Jam and Mase who everyone around me apparently could hear clear as day but I just heard mumble mush at first and could only hear the words clearly with printed lyrics in front of me.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    You might have a smidge of Speech Auditory* Processing Disorder. I do and that's what it's like for me. Common comorbidity with ADHD and ASD, and possibly other neurotypes.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh almost certainly. I have ADHD, prolly autistic, and I've had many times where my mind stopped processing what people are saying. Which is bad when you work tourism xD

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Yyuup. It's bad in basically any job you have to listen to people during, and I always have to establish with friends that it is an honest mistake when I can't understand them and/or spaced out.

    I'm ADHD and on the spectrum more than likely, and my therapist says that the cutting edge research pertaining to this is leaning towards combining ADHD and ASD into one conglomerate of symptoms because they overlap more often than not.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Seems like they could just Google the lyrics and read that.

    But I guess Spotify lyrics do give an idea on the pace of the song.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Long shot guess: deaf person can "listen" to vibrations of music with their hands on a speaker but this is not possible with lyrics?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    So imagine you’re listening to rap. But you’re hard of hearing. The beats still slap, but the words aren’t intelligible. Hell the beats are even better because you got a subwoofer that shakes the floor. But you know it’s poetry, it’s about the words as much as the beats. So of course you’d want to read along

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