Ep 69: How Spotify Threatens Our Musical Taste | A Discussion with Jenny Judge

[@meniokottakis124]

Great discussion about music and musical “tastes”. With the advent of AI I think it’s valuable to know how it and Spotify can affect our choice in what to listen to.

[@steveerickson411]

In the segment about the aesthetics of Spotify, most of this just seems like a more powerful extension of commercial radio's worst aspects. Radio was the original recommendation algorithm and the first medium to use music to push listeners towards advertising.

[@happinesstan]

If they can infer your emotional state, they can control it.

[@Bytorand1]

TL;DR the medium is the message Thanks, guy, but McLuhan already covered this 70 years ago.