You only feature the playlists you want people to think you listen to on your profile. On Instagram you post the best pictures of yourself that reflect your desired vibe and aesthetic, on Spotify you do the same thing, but with your playlists.

The app is more than just a music streaming platform - your friends can follow you and see what you're listening to at all times.Īnd if your playlists are public, anyone who finds your profile can see them, so they've become another way to define yourself on the internet. This trend is a response to Spotify becoming another performative social media platform for younger users. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences.

They can even tell strange and unexpected stories through the titles. Instead these playlists make jokes that rely on the playlist title and song titles. This phase rejects the classic idea of a playlist - the songs on the list aren't exactly intended for listening. The Weird Spotify Playlist trend is the next phase of the playlist that dates back to the mix tape, as pointed out by Miles Klee of Mel Magazine. The Twitter is run by Matt who runs a handful of other Twitter meme pages like True, I Guess. The account crowdsources playlists in their dms and on the Weird Spotify Playlists subreddit, which has over 14,000 members. The account quickly gained half a million followers and posts a handful of bizarre playlists daily. Starting in the first week of August my Twitter feed became inundated by the account Weird Spotify Playlists, which posts screenshots of playlists where weird doesn't even begin to cover it. Weird Spotify Playlists subvert the idea of the playlist as something to listen to.

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