Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (Liz Pelly)
An interesting and scary overview of how streaming and playlistification have gone too far. I’ve been feeling for a while like these streaming services aren’t worth my time or energy as an artist, but I sort of tried to dismiss it as myself overthinking it or being too skeptical. I now feel extremely justified, and this book was an important reminder that to Spotify and other tech companies disguised as music companies, artists are as much a product as listeners are.