Somewhere, you want us to know this, too.
So why would you do that? Expose yourself to your friend list, become the potential subject of their ridicule, and let your community know exactly where you're at (like, down enough to spend three consecutive hours listening to only Sufjan Stevens' Illinois)?įirstly, because we want to know your heart. Put simply: there is nowhere to hide when your listening is public.
It’s a live broadcast of a person's mood at that very second without any crafting. I might argue that even real life rarely affords such moments of complete knowing. Such intimacy simply does not exist on any other social media platform or website. To watch someone’s listening on Spotify is to gain entry into their deepest, real-time truth. Ever.īlack Sabbath, 1970 once heavy metal pioneers and current workout playlist mainstay. That they really and truly only listen to Nicki Minaj. That they have been listening to the A Star is Born soundtrack cover to cover between the hours of 9 a.m. It’s something entirely more honest to know that they work out exclusively to Black Sabbath's Paranoid. It’s one thing to know about the recurring argument your friend has with their boyfriend, but even that gets fed through a lens of their own perception of events. But it also happens to be the only way we can really learn who a person is, organically and authentically, online. This module’s primary use is for music sharing and discovery between friends, I’m sure. I’m talking about the live feed, right there, on the right-hand side of the Spotify desktop app that shows Friend Activity. That doesn’t mean you actually stream any of them. Sure, you can make your public playlists as performatively cool as you want, throwing on every NPR- and Pitchfork-endorsed cut you can find. We post photos to Instagram from our most flattering angles and word our tweets with precision and care, so they’re as sharp and witty or as jaded and aloof as we wish we were. The internet is a place where we diligently curate personas for ourselves, overthinking our profiles in hopes that they'll help us to be perceived in some specific way.
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