Spotify Wrapped: the Evening Standard team on their most concerning takeaways

It’s the most wonderful time of year! That’s right, the time for having our true colours mercilessly revealed by Spotify Wrapped is upon us once more. 

Given that it’s compiled by an algorithm that simply tots up all of the things people actively chose to listen to, you would think that Wrapped wouldn’t come as so much of a surprise; it’s quite clear who exactly was solely responsible for pressing play on the ten minute Taylor’s Version of All Too Well (47 times within a week) after all. Still, there’s something quite harrowing about seeing all of it together in the same place, isn’t there?

When we’re in polite company, we make certain music choices; a nice tasteful bit of jaunty instrumental