‘Tis the month before Christmas, which means only one thing: time for Spotify to tell us all we’re onions. According to the music streaming behemoth, whose annual “Spotify Wrapped” feature is out imminently, our multitudinous listening habits are akin to the multiple layers of a malodorous root vegetable. Time to peel it back: don your anthropologist's cap and dive headfirst into your listening history, preferably with a scalpel and a magnifying glass. Unless, like me, you've already done so because you hacked into Spotify Wrapped a week early for journalistic purposes.
I am what I like to call a trackhead. A music junkie. Specifically, it would seem, a dance music junkie, with my top ten tracks from the last six months including Charli XCX's Von Dutch, Confidence Man's Boyfriend (Repeat) and Billie Eilish's L’amour de ma vie [over now extended edit]. Is dance music more inherently addictive than other genres? I was hoping so, if only to offer some sort of excuse when people looked at me aghast for gaining entry to the top one percent of Charli XCX listeners in the year of Brat.
