i love looking at my music listening stats bc i love a pattern recognition moment but i've become indifferent to spotify wrapped for sometime now for various reasons.
seeing all those layoffs happen right after last yearās wrapped left a bad taste in my mouth and with how much the company is leaning into generative ai, i wouldnāt be suprised if gen ai is being used to supplement the missing labor for wrapped this year. music is not as fun without the humans.
i also dislike the culture that slowly formed around it. the idea of adjusting your listening habits so your results are āpresentableā to your social media following is wild to meā¦why donāt you justā¦enjoy the music? i donāt know, people hold it on some weird pedestal.
this is honestly tied into my increase in grievances with the app as a whole. if i didnāt amass 40+ playlists in the last ten years or listen to thousands of songs from an array of places, people and time periods, i wouldāve left altogether. but alas, i am here. and i wont pretend i dont still look at my wrapped results when they drop. anyways, last.fm is more accurate and i donāt have to wait yearly for those stats.