Don't know what you feel like listening to?
Don't want to typecast your listening habits?
or is it just that your music collection contains many compilations with <various> in the artist field?
For all of the above <various> makes perfect sense.
It far transcends the more ubiquitous 'VA', is easily the superior of the unadorned 'various' and is far more palatable than the overly verbose 'various artists'
In short it is the future of music.
When pop finally eats itself, all music will be categorised <various>
When overproduced and poorly encoded, downloadable file format music finally chokes the life out…