The top 10 neighbors for Mikel Jollett — a musician by subcategory — contain no other musicians. The cluster is built almost entirely from journalists, political figures, and media voices, with scores packed into a narrow band from 0.96 to 0.97.
The shape is flat: no single neighbor dominates. Jared Yates Sexton (0.97), an author, sits at the top, followed closely by actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus (0.97) and journalists Judd Legum (0.97), Dr. emptywheel (0.97), Ben Collins (0.97), and Kyle Griffin (0.96). Journalists account for four of the ten slots. The remaining positions go to Jon Favreau (0.97, Professionals), Brian Schatz (0.96, Politicians), Ben Rhodes (0.96, Government Officials), and NPR Books (0.96, News Publishers). The through-line across these subcategories is political media — journalists, political operatives, elected officials, and a public-radio books channel — rather than anything drawn from the music world.
The audience Jollett shares with these neighbors is shaped by political and media engagement, not by genre or artistic affinity.