You Can’t Outrun Spotify

Video: Vulture, Graphic: Spotify

As a consumer-facing product, Spotify has sucked for years. Whatever utilitarian elegance the platform might’ve had in its early days has given way to a confusing, ugly algorithm blob of videos, podcasts, and audiobooks you don’t want as you mosey about trying to find the music you do. As I write this, my “Home” tab is being dominated by an autoplaying tech-bro clip about artificial general intelligence, which Spotify has decided to shove in my face because...