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Playlists: What is «Globi» doing on my Spotify annual hit list?
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The streaming service believes that my mood was hopeless to encouraging in 2021, and it could be wrong.
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Which song did you listen to the most in 2021? Spotify knows exactly.
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It’s that time of year again in December. As safely as Niklaus brings the nuts, Spotify sends its 381 million subscribers their personal annual review. Actually, nothing else than the disclosure of all user data eagerly collected by the streaming service. Because Spotify knows exactly who, when, what, how long, how often, in which country, in which city. And that’s pretty revealing. Because people forget very quickly, which is why these annual reviews are so popular.
They are shared hundreds of thousands of times on social media. What was once the record collection in the parlor is now the annual review of the preferred streaming service: A possibility to inform those around you about your own music preferences without being asked. You would like your own exquisite taste in music to crystallize out of your personal top ten list, but for most of them, commerce should also find its way onto the podium. Although there has been a lot of discussion about the demanding album of this new band from New Hampshire, what has been heard above all is Adele and Taylor Swift.
The saddest song of all time at number 1
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Happy doomsday song by Aske and Finneas: Till Forever Falls Apart.
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Also a bit frightening when, like myself, a rather sad song is lonely at the top. It is the duet “Till Forever Falls Apart” by Billie Eilish’s brother Finneas and the singer Ashe. It’s about the end, the great flood, and that it won’t feel bad when you know you’ve spent your time with the best of people. I’ve heard the song over 70 times, writes Spotify, and says it was probably not an easy year.
Mood: Hopelessly romantic
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My «audio aura», created from the mood, the tempo and the music style of my playlist, is green-pink and fluctuates between hopelessly romantic and comforting. I think that goes very well with this year. Hasn’t the mood of the entire world population fluctuated between hopeless and comforting depending on the number of infections and the associated measures? From “it’s soon over, we’re almost there” to – “no, unfortunately not.”
Whereby I skilfully lead Spotify behind the light of data analysis. Because I share my account with my family.
This has disadvantages, for example when I hear Philip Glass in the office and it throws me completely out of concentration when my husband throws a reggae party at home with the children in the garden and lets John Holt go for it. But it is also informative when I see on my smartphone that someone is hearing Adele, who otherwise claims that he cannot do anything with this quote: «Heulboje».
The fact that “Globi and the crazy machine” appears in the front ranks and that my favorite style is “Progressive Metal” does not show my schizophrenia, but the diversity of my family very well.
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