So I have an issue with how Spotify decided to categorize two albums of Broadway show tunes. I am an avid classical music fan and enjoy listening to classical music. I've recently been listening to the flute compositions made by Frederick the Great, the King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786. I really enjoy them., because he was good composer. There's just one problem . . . there's these two random Broadway show tune albums on his artist page.
I think it's hilarious, mostly because there's no way a man who's been dead for over two hundred years had anything to do with those albums. But it is aggravating because they are 1( not really credited to anyone else (one album has another artist credited but one is just Frederick the Great) and 2( the photo that comes up for the artist photo is of the Broadway show tunes. That means every time I am listening to wonderful flute music, I see a photo come up of the cover of the Broadway show tune albums. You can see it here (https://open.spotify.com/artist/1N2S1tQEsMdR4eu1GqVjPc?si=1VM6JaK7Q6qqDheBzraRoA) when you click on his profile. The artist description relays accurate information about the third King of Prussia, but somehow has the most ridiculous profile picture. (Like why couldn't they have chosen one of the album covers that actually has a painting of HIM on it?)
And there's no possible way that this man wrote these albums. They contain concepts and things that did not exist pre-1786. Some of the hits include "Broadway Cowboy," "Sugar Daddy," "Little Bit Gay." These words didn't even exist (or didn't have the connotation they do now) when Frederick the Great was alive. He also was noted for being the King of PRUSSIA (a country which was in an area that is now Germany). Can you see the king of another nation writing the stirring songs "Broadway USA Overture," "I Can in American," "Dining at the Trump," and "Broadway USA Hitting the Road"?
[As a note--Frederick spoke and wrote in French and German. He was a poet, and he actually did write operas, but those writings were about things such as the fall of the Aztec Empire, satire, homoeroticism, war, philosophy, and history, not . . . whatever this is.]
I'm going to include the whole track list below because I keep laughing at it. But Spotify, FIX THE PROBLEM. Surely these beautiful Broadway show tunes had another artist that made them, not a king who lived at the same time as Voltaire and Catherine the Great.
Track list:
Broadway USA, vol 8: Bobby Lee's Good American Musical Show:
Broadway USA Overture, Dining at the Trump, If It Rained Money, Can't Place Your Face, Russian Roulette, La Dee Ah Dee, Once in a While or So, Lotto Song, Big Fat Lovin' Woman, Broadway Woman, Reminiscing, I Like Chicken, Sailor's Dream, That Long Trip Home, Encore, New Generation March, Finale, I Can in American
https://open.spotify.com/album/3bnM0B3OqyzUM8SXCOXSDJ?si=g7KSZwjHSsOX4a9WK84Zcw
Broadway USA, Vol#4.
Broadway USA Overture, Give Me a Real Live Audience, Fanny, Broadway Cowboy, Little Bit Gay, It's Fun Fun Fun to Be a Man, My Baby's Smile, Sugar Daddy, Intermezzo Suite Four, Party Person, Fire Island Weekends, No Regrets, Going Home to New York City, Finale, Encore, Broadway USA Hitting the Road, I Can in American
https://open.spotify.com/album/1HJwRkMQYRMJmjwxuuIEdD?si=jh8VMNouS32hgeHeRJjy5g
Again, Spotify, please fix this, and I hoped this made someone laugh as hard as this did for me. It's even funnier if you listen to the songs and realize an 18th century monarch couldn't even dream of writing this. I've read so much of his writing and listened to his flute compositions for the better part of six months.
