"Enraging, thoroughly depressing, but entirely necessary, Mood Music offers a timely, forensically researched demolition of Spotify. In Pelly's account, the music streaming giant views music as a kind of nondescript sonic wallpaper, artists as an unnecessary encumbrance to the business of making more money and its target market not as music fans, but mindless drones who don't really care what they're listening to, ripe for manipulation by its algorithm."
"There's no doubt that Men of a Certain Age is a hard sell, a semi-autobiographical book in which the New Statesman's arts editor traces her obsession with often wildly unfashionable, ageing male artists Queen's Roger Taylor, Bruce Hornsby, Steve Perry of Journey, Jon Bon Jovi among them through a series of interviews variously absurd, insightful, hair-raising and weirdly touching."
Spotify treats music as nondescript sonic wallpaper and positions artists as unnecessary encumbrances to the business of making money. The platform's algorithms target users as passive consumers rather than engaged music fans, curating playlists designed to maximize listening time and monetization. Sharp business practices and algorithmic strategies have demonstrable deleterious effects on the quality and variety of new music, privileging easily digestible tracks. Artist compensation and creative diversity suffer as playlist-driven streaming concentrates listening and revenue around algorithm-friendly songs. Convenience and the dominance of curated playlists leave few viable alternatives for preserving musical diversity in the current market.
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