In an effort to consume media more thoughtfully, one of my New Year’s resolutions was to listen to more albums. I only came to recognize how Spotify may be hindering my appreciation of music in a moment of panic over the overwhelming amount of options of music offered up to me. I have spent countless hours streaming and creating playlists on this service. Yet the Spotify algorithm is constantly choosing the music that you should listen to and the music that will keep you on this app.īefore I feign any more superiority, I must admit that I am an avid and active Spotify user. There is an illusion of choice that depends on our assumption that we are the ones making the decisions to craft, curate and listen. Create your online music profile and become another falsified version of a marketable online self. What are you feeling like listening to today? Here are all of the awesome songs that you have listened to in the past year and here are all the awesome songs you may like this week based off of everything we track you listening to. Just as many have analyzed with other social media apps, while it may seem that the app and its amenities are the product, in actuality you are the product that is being sold. Take your pick! If it’s an algorithm approved choice. There are countless “daily mix” playlists created each day based around the decades, moods, artists or general listening. Every Friday, Spotify users are updated with their “Release Radar,” a playlist of songs each week of new releases from artists that you listen to or follow. We must interrogate the reasoning for Spotify to create and promote these aesthetically-based genres.Įvery Monday, Spotify users can look forward to their “Discover Weekly,” a playlist of new songs to check out that the algorithm puts together based off of your recent listening. It’s a genius marketing scheme-and it’s ruining the way that we listen to music.Īccording to my Spotify Wrapped (a feature where users get to view a compilation of their listening data for the year), I listened to 150 genres on the app. These expressions, which essentially mean nothing without the context of social media, have now permeated the popular streaming service Spotify. No, these are not phrases spouted out by a ChatGPT- bot attempting to come up with vague internet-esque phrases to assimilate with the youth, but they may as well be.
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