At this time of year, many people post their ‘wrapped’ lists on Spotify, revealing which songs have played the most in the past 12 months.
But a new app uses artificial intelligence to tell you if your musical taste is good or if, to quote a person’s results, it’s’ women-of-a-certain-age-stan-suburban-80s-music-on-dramamine bad.’
The online culture magazine The Pudding fed millions of indicators of what it considered music to be objectively good, including Pitchfork reviews, recommendations from record stores and subreddits you’ve never heard of.
In addition to evaluating your taste in the tracks, ‘How Bad Is Your Spotify?’ The app will tell you which songs you play a lot and which artists you’re obsessed with ‘uncomfortably’.
Launching on Wednesday, it proved successful trend on Twitter.
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Logging into Spotify through ‘How Bad is Your Spotify’ allows the site to analyze and judge your ‘lousy’ musical taste
‘My Spotify AI really came to me,’ tweeted a fan of Taylor Swift, who was told that her Spotify playlist was ‘folklore-evermore-dumbledore-witch-pop-eyeliner-and-screaming-cottagecore’
Another shared that they had been told, due to their constant reproduction of Eminem and Blink 182, that their playlist was’ moms-spaghetti-high-school-graduation-middle-age-pop-punk bad.
Depending on how high the traffic is, it may take a few minutes to assess your musical taste.
The ‘How Bad Is Your Spotify?’ The program’s AI was developed for The Pudding by freelance writer and creative director Mike Lacher and visual journalist Matt Daniels.
Depending on the acts on your playlist, sophisticated AI may ask you if you are ‘okay’
After a few seconds, he makes a severe assessment of his musical tastes
To be ashamed of the app, visitors need to log in to Spotify through the Pudding website.
AI promises that it is only scanning its music, although it is not clear whether it is also dating its Spotify for another purpose.
Daniels admits the program’s popularity has also caused the site to crash.
While downloading your playlist, the site checks to see if you really “listen” to certain songs.
The system also lists the songs you play a lot and the artists you listen to ‘uncomfortably’, before revealing how basic or modern you are
The program requires users to log in to Spotify through The Pudding website. It is not clear whether the data will be used for other purposes
He also invites you to play a f — match, marry and kill with three artists who make regular appearances on your Spotify.
If you hear melancholy acts like Phoebe Bridgers or Belle and Sebastian, you may even ask, ‘is everything okay?’
Eventually, users get a salty reading of their playlists and the artists who played ad nauseum, along with an explanation of what percentage they are “basic” or modern.
After an analysis, the AI declared: ‘I need to sit in silence for a second. Turning off.’
Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny was the most broadcast artist by Spotify in 2020, with over 8.3 billion people
As for Wrapped, Spotify’s own review of musical trends in 2020, rapper Bad Bunny was the most broadcast artist on Earth, with over 8.3 billion people heard.
Not surprisingly, his album YHLQMDLG was the most broadcast, with over 3.3 billion reproductions.
The most streamed song of 2020 was The Weeknd’s ‘Blinding Lights’, with almost 1.6 billion streams, followed by the 2019 hit by Tones And I ‘Dance Monkey’ and ‘The Box’ by Roddy Ricch, reaching the second and third place, respectively.