The price of a perfect playlist

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2025-03-17

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Author Liz Pelly on how Spotify changed how we consume music. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is the Guardian today.

  • The cost of the perfect Spotify playlist.

  • Okay, I'm getting onto Spotify now to use the AI dj.

  • So it's come up with the logo in the center of it.

  • Listen, I'm pretty pumped about the songs I got for you today.

  • I know what you listen to.

  • I see Mahmoud there.

  • So I'm going to be here every day playing those artists you got in rotation.

  • Going back into your history for songs you used to love.

  • Using Spotify can feel uncanny these days.

  • There are the playlists that I've created myself.

  • Some of them are over 16 years old.

  • They're full of songs that I've shazam from the radio at some point by artists I've never heard of.

  • There are Scandi Pop playlists, R and B,

  • the songs that remind me of holidays or my friends weddings, my own nostalgia.

  • And then there's the stuff that Spotify's curated for me.

  • There's the Day list.

  • It changes throughout the day, predicting what mood I'll be in right now.

  • It thinks I want Pilates, princess, recession, pop, whatever that means.

  • And then there's the AI dj.