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Spotify wrapped 2021 funny1/17/2024 ![]() ![]() What out-of-touch executive wrote these jokes? Great - but what are those of us who don’t know how to read aura colors supposed to do with that blob of color? Give us our top songs and move on.Ģ. “You’ll get two colors and the first one will be who you are, and the second one is what you reach for,” she explained. As for the auras, Nylon reported that they were made in collaboration with a “celebrity aura reader and medium,” Mystic Michaela, and are based on the mood tags that come with songs uploaded to Spotify. But what does all that even mean? Past the fact that “the song playing as you face off against your rival dance crew” is a totally ambiguous category, the songs also aren’t guaranteed to be in your top five, or 100, for that matter (one of this writer’s wasn’t!). This year’s new features include the three songs that would comprise “the movie soundtrack” of your 2021 and the moods and image of your “audio aura” for your year. But every year, the streaming platform adds new bells and whistles: more data points to pore over, more to share or complain about on social media, and more slides to click through to actually get to those top songs and artists. And what’s an “audio aura”?Įvery year, the top songs and artists are what Spotify users are hungry for. What does “your year as a movie soundtrack” mean? 3b. ![]() Come on, Spotify: Throw old-fashioned listeners a bone!ģa. Still, if you’re an albums listener who uses Spotify, it can be a bit silly to see your top five dominated by songs off a single album, and then not see what other albums you had in heavy rotation this year. Spotify isn’t an albums-oriented platform, as proven by the fact that the app just got rid of its auto-shuffle for albums - and only at the insistence of Adele, one of the biggest artists in music. I guess graphic design was the passion of whoever headed up this part of the project. And puzzlingly, but thankfully, it’s only on the genres slide. Let’s start with something we can all agree on: What do the genres at the bottom of our top-five list even say? No matter that they are barely recognizable as real genres (more on that later), the progressively more condensed text at the bottom of the slide makes some genre names nearly impossible to read. ![]()
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