Sar’s Reviews > Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist > Status Update

interesting to be reading the take on the playlist and then going to Spotify today to see they’ve changed the layout to make creating playlists much easier than it was yesterday hmmmm

this is making me feel icky like I have fallen for every sketchy thing TikTok and Spotify have done that has been more fake and set up than authentic

I liked the analysis on self help/wellbeing mood music that is passively listened to by people needing to set the mood, and how it perverted ambient music into an unrecognizable genre. It’s also interesting to hear about the Spotify generated playlist, and how those made artists so much money while at the same time not giving them any recognition, leading to the increase of ghostwriting, this is all just very

The idea of functional listening is really interesting too lots to think about