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You Are Having Fun February 10, 2025
I CAN’T GET RID of my CD player. It’s a relic from 2003, a Sony CFD-E75—glossy, bulbous, and Ferrari-red, barely functional after two decades of overuse. Still, I can’t get rid of my CD player. What are my options? I’ve spent the past decade purchasi...
Learning to Listen January 27, 2025
I remember being in college in 2010. My friend had just returned from vacation in Stockholm during the summer break, and he brought back this peculiar new software called Spotify that his local Swedish friends had installed for him. ...
On 'Mood Machine' January 13, 2025
You may be shocked to hear this, but that Swedish kid who worked at Jajja (SEO firm) and Stardoll (browser-based cartoon game) before cofounding Advertigo (ad-targeting agency) did in fact impress Universal and Sony and Warner with his final boss pro...
Is There Any Escape from the Spotify Syndrome? January 03, 2025
Like countless other people around the globe, I stream music, and like more than six hundred million of them I mainly use Spotify. Streaming currently accounts for about eighty per cent of the American recording industry’s revenue, and in recent year...
The Ringer’s 30 Best Albums of 2024 December 12, 2024
The problem with covering music as a pop culture outlet is the very fractured nature of listenership in the modern age. We don’t all tune in to the radio. MTV doesn’t exist like it used to. The music that’s fed to us on apps like Spotify (The Ringer’...
The Hollow Allure of Spotify Wrapped December 12, 2024
I joined Spotify, the Swedish streaming service, toward the end of 2020, spending the better part of a Sunday transferring my Apple Music library and local files onto the platform. I had nothing against Apple Music—I was even a little sad to leave it...
Why I Finally Quit Spotify August 01, 2024
The other week, I updated the operating system on my Mac laptop after putting the task off for many months. (One intractable flaw of technological devices: they never actually update overnight as promised.) The apps on my computer all upgraded to the...
