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"You drive 20 minutes to the gym, spend two hours in a room blasted with A/C, mindlessly listen to a current events podcast or the first AI-artist high-BPM house playlist that Spotify drums up for you, speak to no one except for the purpose of seeing if that guy lying on the bench in an Instagram ree"
"Since then I took off to focus on myself; I went back to school for dental hygiene, started committing to the gym, and getting better at singing. I now have 30k monthly listeners on Spotify."
"All my old punk friends are dying or desperate, except the handful who live in LA and NYC and make lists of their taste for Criterion and Spotify."
"Just read the report that the UK is somehow banning 16-17 year olds from listening to "explicit" content on Spotify, and anyone under 18 has to give ID to be able to even use the app."
"Started listening to this is your brain on birth control by Sarah hill (it's on Spotify) and it's phenomenal."
"Keeping their UI designers employed by inventing problems"
"Along with the constant interstitial advertisements and kitschy theme music, those ringer/earwolf/pushkin/Spotify-sanctioned podcasts are always inevitably hosted by an aggressively annoying and self-absorbed person... It's also funny that Spotify tries to foreground so many nyt/npr/demographically "
"I'm entranced by this brand of terrible writing: all of it elaborate, most of it pretentious, some of it just plain unintelligible. Where did it come from?"
"Omg, you don't have an Instagram? You don't have Netflix? What about HBO? You don't have HBO? Apple music? Spotify?"
"The worst I've ever seen is customer support forced to roleplay. Like reaching out to Spotify support, they say'going backstage to see what the roadies can do' or some shit like that."
"i mean with spotify, as evil as it is, these kids have all the music they could ever want to listen to, at their fingertips and they wont even drop like 50$ for some used semi-alright audio equipment. what the hells the point of a spotify subscription if everything sounds like shit?"
"Nothing to do with vaccines, I did this about a month ago bc I'm moving into collecting an archive of digital files. I'm going back to mp3 mode. I'm gonna buy a huge hard drive. When the Internet is all fucked up I'll at least have my files."
"The amount of money you can make from such a low effort medium is criminal so it makes sense that the market is flooded with Spotify-sanctioned dogshit, but the intense monetization and professionalization of the format has really killed whatever made it compelling a decade ago."
"So, I go on spotify, click the song at the beginning of the most popular list 'Dog Days Are Over' and after a few seconds of listening, I realised that I had heard this song dozens of times, and that it fucking blows"
""Memory unlocked", "in your indie sleaze era", "sad girl aesthetic", "trippy", "vaporwave isn't dead", "badass" like PLEASE just recommend music I haven't heard before without introducing it like some overly online zoomer"
"She has the 4th most monthly listeners on Spotify despite not having released an album since 2016 - more listeners than Beyonce or Drake, both of whom have dropped albums recently."
"i've spent the past thirty minutes cross referencing people who follow him on spotify with people who follow him on instagram, then going back and seeing what artists they like to see if his current music taste has been influenced by them."
"most of them voted for Biden in the primary and have a #resist sticker on their car lmao"
"used to get a lot of matches - including every woman with a septum piercing but one of these three factors ruined my profile: - adding a picture where I'm smiling - adding my 'low-class' job (mailman) - changing my 'spotify anthem' from a bladee song to a deftones song"
"On the one hand, it's basically a 90 minute giga-ad for Amazon, Microsoft Teams, Facebook, Whatsapp, Teamviewer, Zoom, Google, Fox News, Staples, Spotify, and many more. That alone makes it an interesting case study in pushing the limits of product placement."
"a woman just told me she's in the 10% of spotify's top listeners of the smiths"
"Every time I open the Spotify desktop app and it gets some new ugly feature that hampers my ability to actually just scroll through my library and play some music I die a little more inside."
"Spotify listeners are giving up on new music"
"These people log thousands of hours on Spotify and they really just go about their life listening to that? I get that some of my friends are npcs and don't do anything with their life but like how is that not torture?"
"no I do not want to listen to 15 different demos, B-sides and live versions after a full album and manually pruning them every time you listen to it is a pain in the arse (fuck knows why they removed being able to save only partial albums)"
"The equivalent subreddits now are just internet addict zoomers who heard the Black Keys on Spotify. The death of traditional forums seems to kill off these types."
"They are the 151st most popular act on spotify, obviously that doesn't always mean much but they are in ads for GAP and Lush etc so they must have some fanbase."
"I opened spotify to see Willow's smug fucking face staring back at me and I'm sick of this banal hoe and her simpleton brother trying to buy themselves a music career."
"It seems that several years ago the algorithms for suggested videos on youtube and song recommendations on spotify were actually useful for discovering stuff based on your taste. Yet now something like spotify only suggests songs that you're already familiar with and youtube gives the same videos on"
"There was a thread on askUK the other week where the top "luxury" you afford yourself was Spotify premium. I also often get a "ooOoo" when people know I've got Premium. It's about $13 a month! The average album cost that in 1995 THIRTY year's ago."
"All the albums are jumbled together. The delux, live, remastered, compilation albums are all jumbled together. Half the time I like a song, I realize later I've already liked an imperceptibly different version of it. It's recommendations are just songs I've already listened to."
"was this a Covid thing? Vaccine thing? So much dumb shit happens it all blurs together. Part of me is impressed that he's still at it and it wasn't just him hopping on a bandwagon for attention."
"I feel like when I was 12 and would listen to albums I'd downloaded on my ipod for hours on the bus to school every day. When I actually listened to whole albums instead of just songs on shuffle in my liked spotify playlist."
"10 years ago we wouldve made 4 releases and died off. They dont pay enough but many mid tier artist are able to make a living off their art today thanks to dsp's"
"Spotify seemed like a godsend when it came out but now when you realise you have been spending so much over the years just building up it was probs worth it in the end to just buy the songs and use them for free idk. Makes me think that techno feudalism thing was right. We're just serfs and lords."
"Spotify Wrapped time of the year comes around and here's friend 1 with 75k minutes, next one with 68k, next one with 107k, 119k, I saw someone listened to over 225,000 minutes on Spotify this year (TEN hours per day) This cannot be healthy."
"every year spotify wrapped gets lazier and ugly but I liked this one, I got Burlington (Microphones, Built to Spill, Elliott Smith)"
"He just signed a new $250M NON EXCLUSIVE deal with Spotify. Averages 11M daily listeners on Spotify alone 4x a week 50 weeks a year. Those are some obscene numbers."
"Also lamenting the fact that algorithmic radio on apps like Spotify genuinely suck dick. Plus p4k died when conde nast bought it, and youtubers like Fantano are zoomer pandering hacks."
"I didn't think I had that song on the playlist but it just randomly came on after the playlist was done because i listen to it sometimes and i guess spotify knows i like that song!"
"Can't listen to a single song without it pausing or turning smart shuffle on. Every review on the appstore is people saying the app doesn't work at all and is full of ads. And it just keeps getting progressively worse."
"They'll be making $400k, driving Teslas, dressed head to toe in Patagonia and Lululemon, have The Weeknd and keshi on their Spotify wrapped"
"Take listening to music for example. Nowadays it's something you do alone in your room. However, back when there was no YouTube and Spotify what many people did was visit that one rich friend's house and listen to all the new albums there."
"Don't u fools get it, u finding it cute and shareable is part of the psyop"
"somehow i played poppin my collar for three consecutive hours this year"
"Many complain about Spotify prices, saying how 10 bucks a month for unlimited music is too much and the free version having ads is greedy. Nevermind that the app is barely profitable as is and has operated at a loss forever."
"I had to WORK to get where I am today, while they get good shit handed to them on a platter. I've got over 1500 albums on RateYourMusic and they haven't even listened to these albums all the way through a *single time*."
"In the age of sinister algorithms that force-feed you the same shit you already know you like, listening to NTS Radio is such a breath of fresh air."
"Spotify is too good, it's been too good for too long. You can just load up pretty much any song by any artist without any delay and it's in good quality and they don't blast you with 50 ads on your way there. It's insane that this one company just gives you access to everything you'd want to listen "
"My friend tells me he does not have a spotify subscription and walks in silence hearing the environment and practices eye contact."
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