"Taste like yours can't be defined, Spotify's report informed me, but let's try anyway Your listening age is 86. The numbers were emblazoned on the screen in big pink letters. It took a long time for my 13-year-old daughter (listening age: 19) and my 46-year-old husband (listening age: 38) to stop laughing at me. Where did I go wrong, I wondered, feeling far older than 44. But it seems I'm not alone."
"Another post, with a brutal clip of Judi Dench shouting you're not young at Cate Blanchett, was liked more than 26,000 times. The 22-year-old actor Louis Partridge best mirrored my reaction when he shared his listening age of 100 on Instagram stories with the caption: uhhh. Rage bait defined as online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage in order to increase web traffic is the Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year."
She woke up after a 44th birthday hangover and found Spotify Wrapped calculating 4,863 minutes of listening and, for the first time, a listening age of 86. Family members laughed at the discrepancy. Users on X expressed feeling personally victimised and viral posts, including a Judi Dench clip, attracted tens of thousands of likes. Actor Louis Partridge posted a listening age of 100. The Oxford English Dictionary named 'rage bait' word of the year, defined as online content designed to elicit anger. The user's top artist was Sabrina Carpenter, 722 minutes, placing her in the top 3% of global fans.
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