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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

TBD | Spotify Trapped

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate

News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Spotify is shaping listening habits, so much so that musicians are shaping themselves for Spotify. It makes your musical world a little more prescribed, a little smaller.  If it feels like everything’s getting a little stale, how do we get out? Guest: Tiffany Ng, culture and tech writer. Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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A quick note before we get started, there is some grown-up music on this episode.

1:04.5

Plus, I have a little bit of a cold, so my voice sounds a touch scratchy.

1:10.1

Here is the show.

1:18.5

On Wednesday, like a lot of people, I got my Spotify wrapped.

1:25.1

My number one song was a 25-year-old hit.

1:29.3

Back That Ass Up by Juvenile.

1:40.1

Um, yeah.

1:41.6

I had cancer surgery at the start of this year, and this song, from my senior year in college,

1:48.0

was my post-cancer psych-up song.

1:50.9

It's honestly pretty great when you need some motivation.

1:55.2

Anyway, according to Spotify, I played it more than anything else this year,

2:00.1

followed by two Chapel Rhone songs

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