Do Music Wraps Offend Listeners?

Music has a way of connecting people with specific melodies and lyricism.

As the year comes to an end, music apps like Apple Music and Spotify have continued the tradition of showing listeners their top artists, genres and song selections for the year. However, what does the calculated results mean for avid music fans?

In Anabel Pasarow's "Are You As Embarrassed About Your Spotify Wrapped As I Am By Mine," she writes, "To be told it so plainly in the form of hard data on my personal music-listening habits from the last year (and decade!) is an affront to my eyeballs and ego. But I digress. Today is an annoying day on my social media feeds, which are mostly comprised of my peers sharing their Spotify Wrapped data to assert publicly that they listen to obscure music under the thinly-veiled guise of partaking in a cute year-end reflection.

But what about those among us who feel knocked down a few pegs by seeing our musical sensibilities synthesized so boldly?"

While the wrapped may seem like the platform is judging you, it's important to recognize that this music list is a direct reminder of the choices you made all-year-round. Regardless of the top artist or song, or whether it is Apple music, Youtube Music or Spotify, music has a funny way of reminding us of a time where it was all we did and how we dealt with certain parts of our lives.

The Spotify Wrapped, Apple Music Wrapped and Youtube Music Wrapped show us just how diverse our tastes in music are and calls us out for the type of music we've listened to all year round.

Whether you agree with your results or not, there's always next year to change your taste in music or even keep track on your own to determine what you think is the truth behind your music history.