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Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist

Comprehensive ... Her approach is aggressively moralistic ... Pelly is a romantic, but her book isn’t an exercise in nostalgia. It’s about how we have come to view art and creativity, what it means to be an individual, and what we learn when we first hum along to a beloved pop song.
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Pelly builds her tendentious but convincing case on internal Slack transcripts, anonymous interviews with disenchanted current and former employees, the company’s changing narratives of itself, and some door-knocking in Stockholm, where Spotify is headquartered, to present a bruising portrait of the company.
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Pelly’s meticulous documentation makes Mood Machine an important book. A little friction, it seems, can be good to hang on to.
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