Our Spotify Wrapped is never as we would like, but it is the report of our mood swings and our guilty pleasure

Spotify Wrapped is back, punctual like Santa Claus every December and, this time too, many of us discovered it thanks to the Instagram stories of friends, relatives and colleagues who showed (some proudly and some ironically) their results.

The most awaited and feared musical report of the year, rather than the mirror of our musical tastes, seems to be that of our fluctuating life moments and our mood swingsmarked alternately bypop euphoria of the biggest hit mainstream of the moment, from nostalgia for the timeless classic from forty years ago, from song more cringe of the world which, in public, you criticize with snobbishness but, in private, you can’t deny that it’s catchy.

And then, again, the song that ours situationship/crush he published in his stories (which was clearly aimed at us, delulu is the solulu) listened to it repeatedly to grasp the deepest nuances of a hidden message (in reality he liked the sound and shared it during a random lunch break).

Then, there is the song that makes us feel understood, in which we take refuge as a form of alternative therapy, the one we put on in the background while we improvise like rock stars in the mirror, the one that makes us cry all our tears and the one that, instead, it makes us stop suddenly and gives us the energy to remember who we are.

Then the “repetitions” before a concert are inevitable: it is not uncommon in fact that, among your favorite artists of the year, there are precisely those that you went to listen to live in 2024. Not surprisingly, in first position in my Spotify Wrapped, Lana Del Rey stands out (I attended her concert in June in Milan and I told you about it here: I’m 26 years old, I’m crazy about Lana Del Rey and I’ll tell you why the concert in Milan was epic).

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Not all the protagonists of the Spotify Wrapped, however, they seem to reflect the image that we ourselves have of ourselves, much less the idea that others have. Probably, not everyone, in the top 5, have appeared the artists who would list among the favorites during a first date to impress and to show off an aura of original connoisseurs and impeccable tastes. Spotify Wrapped it identifies, albeit with some alleged miscalculations of the algorithm, who we are when we stop pretending.

Certain, Spotify Wrappedyou could avoid putting the song you listened to on repeat in February into the cauldron. Now, at the end of the year, we are no longer those people there and we reopen a portal that we have laboriously tried to close.

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While some of us, looking at our rankings, are not at all surprised by the result, others react as if a secret listener, with questionable tastes, had told them hacked the account, drastically ruining his image.

We have to make peace with our moments cringeours guilty pleasure, the memories linked to every song and every song linked to people who may no longer be part of our lives, today and in 2025. By the way, if you really want to be cool next year, start studying a playlist to listen to on repeat after the holidays (we warn you: the risk that, after three days, you will give up, you will abandon that niche band Indies and yours true me will take over is very high).