[All Platforms] There's a genre called mellow gold?

[secnep]

I just went through spotify.me and it told me 33% of my music is A genre called "Mellow Gold" and when I look that up there's nothing about it except the album by Beck- which out of the hundreds of songs in my library I have one song by Beck... so that is confusing and I was wondering if anyone has an explanation for why Mellow Gold is a genre

[Natswat]

Weirdly enough, although I have that genre too for me it has Bowie and Queen and is actually missing the Beck abum

[audraboehme]

Mellow gold is most 70’s music! Hope this helps!!

[justfetus · Accepted solution]

It's made up by Spotify. 

"Mellow Gold contains elements of soft rock and folk rock, and has a strong correlation with album-oriented classic rock of the ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s. Emphasis is on clean production, harmonies, and melodic compositions."

Here's a playlist by Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/user/thesoundsofspotify/playlist/49vErWAk7BLsLccmRxngH3

[galvinho24]

I had the same question. Now i know i like this kind of music and that it has a name according to Spotify.

Saludos desde Perú. Te voy a seguir en búsqueda de buena música. 

[Rick_Longbottom]

Mellow Gold originated with this mail-order record collection:

https://youtu.be/Qpv9thoCXzoi

[RowanMorken]

It must be like 60s, 70s rock or something because I’ve got it pretty high up and that’s mostly what I listen to

[skadreamer]

It's sounds to me like what people normally associate with Laurel Canyon music. Sort of like country pop rock, artists like Jim Croce John Denver the Carpenters etc. Tom Petty is a great later example.  

[mattlach]

Lol @ "Emphasis is on clean production, harmonies, and melodic compositions."

That sounds just like a definiton of "music".   Everything else is just noise.

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That sounds like a definitoln

[Deliae]

Apparently my No 1 artist is chicane but I don’t have a single song of theirs in my entire saved collection and I don’t listen to them at all