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Liz Pelly
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Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
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2025
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10 editions
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This Woman's Work: Essays on Music
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2022
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2 editions
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The Baffler (vol. xxi)
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Listen to Lists (DNA #2)
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“And platforms mostly only offered the illusion of togetherness. They are not public squares; they’re corporate digital enclosures where your every move is tracked.”
― Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
― Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
“In her 2014 book The People’s Platform, the writer and filmmaker Astra Taylor challenged the idea that the so-called digital revolution had democratized culture. In particular, she warned that the same problems of “consolidation, centralization, and commercialism” that defined our old media systems would continue to shape the digital world without a serious reckoning.”
― Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
― Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
“Streaming, and Spotify in particular, created a music-themed version, where participation was captured, reduced to data points, and used to strengthen a commercial machine, to achieve the financial goals of Spotify and the majors.”
― Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
― Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
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