Daylist Titles The Xavierite
Despite being the most popular music streaming platform in the world, Spotify is still testing new features to attract more users. One of their recent endeavors, the Daylist, has quickly gained traction due to its unnecessarily niche names.
When it was first launched in late 2023, the Daylist was described as “hyper-personalized, dynamic, and playful,” an ever-evolving playlist generated at fixed points throughout the day to match the listener’s ever-evolving mood.
On paper, it’s certainly an interesting concept. Your listening habits are a reflection of your personality, your mood, and a million other variables that change from day to day or even hour to hour. Could an app really track that?
Spotify has a well-known history of cultivating seemingly random user-specific experiences to maintain an edge above competitors like Apple Music. Some, like Spotify Wrapped, become cult classics while others, like the “Blend” feature, quickly fall into obscurity.
Daylists could have been a hit or miss, but one defining feature has garnered worldwide attention: the names.
Every time your Daylist updates, the title of the playlist does as well.
My Spotify seems to think I’ve been jilted, giving me Daylists called “divorced masterpiece evening” and “heartbroken divorced night” on the regular.
Others have even more absurd Daylists like “lilith coastal cowgirl saturday morning” and “nervous ocean thursday afternoon.”
Seeing these hyper-specific titles that make little-to-no sense rouses amusement but also annoyance. After laughing at how preposterous the title is, many listeners wonder how these names are generated in the first place.
Why are your listening habits grouped into “steamy writer’s block monday” or “liquid funk afternoon” so arbitrarily?
Daylists merely reflect the trend of people categorizing themselves with overparticular labels that mean nothing substantial. But now it isn’t you needlessly labeling yourself: it’s your streaming service!
Public service announcement: it’s okay to not be niche.
Push back. Be yourself without worrying what microgenre you fit into. Listen to your own playlists instead of your Spotify-generated esoteric not-like-other-people evening mix.
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