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

'Datafication, or the process of rendering our lives as data, is first and foremost a kind of surveillance designed to impose classifications and norms on the surveilled, while devaluing way they understand themselves. It's a way to encourage artists to minimize their own conception of their work, and maximize its machine legibility.'

That's gonna stick with me, and not just in the context of Spotify or music.