unwrapping my spotify wrapped and gifting my recommendations!
spotify wrapped dropped last week, and it’s always a day I look forward to. spotify is a flawed platform and company for many reasons; they underpay artists, but they give hyper specific recommendations, often for artists I wouldn’t have otherwise discovered. they also developed the first algorithm of its kind that rewards users for interacting with art. many other media tracking and productivity apps have since followed suit; beli, letterboxd, and goodreads all provide their users with personalized data to show off how many restaurants we ate at, movies we watched, and books we read in a given year. these types of apps have really become their own niche kinds of social media, which can be equally fun and insufferable. for better or for worse, I’m more addicted to them than I ever was to Instagram…
