{"id":2186507,"date":"2025-12-04T09:03:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T09:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2186507"},"modified":"2025-12-04T09:03:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T09:03:36","slug":"spotify-wrappeds-new-listening-age-feature-did-not-need-to-read-us-quite-so-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/spotify-wrappeds-new-listening-age-feature-did-not-need-to-read-us-quite-so-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify Wrapped\u2019s New \u201cListening Age\u201d Feature Did Not Need to Read Us Quite So Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>I don\u2019t give Spotify a <em>ton<\/em> of credit for its annual Wrapped feature (the idea <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/intern-created-spotify-wrapped-feature-195344023.html\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/intern-created-spotify-wrapped-feature-195344023.html&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/intern-created-spotify-wrapped-feature-195344023.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">famously came from an intern<\/a>!), but I have to admit that this year\u2019s campaign is pretty fun\u2014the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teenvogue.com\/story\/spotify-wrapped-2025-find-your-listening-age-top-songs-and-more\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cListening Age\u201d part<\/a>, which estimates how old you are based on your music tastes, especially.<\/p>\n<p>When I opened my Wrapped on Wednesday, I assumed my Listening Age would be somewhere near my actual age of 32, given my two most-played artists are Lorde (teen vibes) and the cast of the 2006 Broadway revival of <em>Company<\/em> (geriatric energy). In fact, this was <em>not<\/em> the case; Spotify deemed my Listening Age to be a whopping 51 years old, due largely to the fact that I apparently listen to a lot of music from the early \u201990s. Sorry, but why am I being held accountable for the fact that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/post-roe-v-wade-riot-grrrl-anger\" target=\"_blank\">riot grrrl<\/a> rocks?<\/p>\n<p>Curious about my colleagues\u2019 listening habits, I dropped a query about everyone else\u2019s Listening Age into the <em>Vogue<\/em> team Slack channel. As it turns out, I wasn\u2019t the only one Spotify had dramatically aged: \u201cI\u2019m 41, and my Spotify age is 53,\u201d said <em>Vogue<\/em> Runway senior fashion news editor Laia Garcia-Furtado. This, she didn\u2019t mind so much: \u201cI\u2019ve read before that 1984 is part of a micro-generation that\u2019s, like, too young to be proper Gen X or too old to be proper millennial? Anyway, what I\u2019m saying is this spiritually tracks.\u201d Senior editor Marley Marius, who is 31, was hit with a Listening Age of 79. \u201cMy top artists are Barbra Streisand, Bach, Luther Vandross, Amy Winehouse, and Johnny Mathis,\u201d she reported, \u201cso\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone at <em>Vogue<\/em> had a Listening Age that skewed old-school, however. \u201cI was embarrassingly overjoyed to learn that my Spotify age was 29\u2014and, yes, mystified, given that for me this was, largely, the Year of Oasis (and given that I\u2019m, let\u2019s say, somewhere north of 50),\u201d senior editor Corey Seymour told me. \u201cMy glee quickly turned to a sigh when I saw that the music tastes of my 13-year-old daughter, Esme, were reflected on my Wrapped (she has her own Spotify account and I\u2019d assumed this would be the first year in a long while that wouldn\u2019t have, say, Melanie Martinez, or whatever this year\u2019s version of My Little Pony is, on it). Alas! Word quickly spread through our family text thread like wildfire that Esme\u2019s age was 36 (but why? her Laufey-heavy playlists? Chappell?), leaving me as the, ahem, baby of our family. Small victories!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was 17, all I listened to was Bob Dylan. I was so in love with him, in fact, that my dad and I followed him on a casino tour through South America for my senior spring break while all my peers were drinking and French kissing in Mexico,\u201d said senior beauty and wellness editor Margaux Anbouba. \u201cToday, Spotify told me that I have the music taste of a 17-year-old (Doechii and Tate McCray were big on my top-played list). I am 35, so I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m aging in reverse, or just my music tastes are.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.vogue.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t give Spotify a ton of credit for its annual Wrapped feature (the idea famously came from an intern!), but I have to admit that this year\u2019s campaign is pretty fun\u2014the \u201cListening Age\u201d part, which estimates how old you are based on your music tastes, especially. 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