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As a consumer-facing product, Spotify has sucked for years.
But is the worm finally turning?
Users expressedsharpdisappointmentwith the lack of data specificity they were accustomed to getting in the past.
I was hungry for a book like this.
Pelly, a veteran music journalist, was early intreating Spotify with sober skepticism.
Pellys resulting image is apocalyptic.
Of course, Spotify isnt singularly responsible for the degradation of music ecologies.
The model now seems closer to financial speculation.
Was it ever a good deal?
But its never been harder to make a living off each individual work of art.
Were losing other things, too, like a sense of a work ever existing in its own context.
This is a terrible thing.
Further complicating matters is Spotifys ever-growing expansionary ambitions.
Were competing with sleep, on the margins.
So, how do we get out of this hellhole?
We cant just think about changing music, or changing music technology, she writes.
Perhaps thats the clearest articulation of the answer.
To get out of this digital hellhole, you should probably literally leave it.
