Though bad music during a wedding reception is expected—if not mandatory—songs chosen for first dances are a different beast. Though a combination of free alcohol, old friends, and terrible cousins can make even the worst song a joy to dance to by the end of a night, the first dance is different. All (mostly sober)…

So much goes into planning a national party convention! You have to work out transportation and housing logistics with the host city. Prepare the venue(s). Develop a schedule of speakers and panelists. Field media requests. Beg celebrities to drop by. And coordinate an army of over 10,000 volunteers and DNC staffers,…

In the tech industry, paid leave is becoming a sought-after benefit for employees, and for employers like Spotify, Twitter, Etsy, Netflix, it’s become an explicit priority. But, as Rebecca Greenfield writes at Bloomberg, these policies are made feasible partly because the tech workforce is still mostly male.

Very Specific Playlists is a weekly feature in which Jezebel staffers make very specific Spotify playlists based on their weird proclivities.

On July 20, 2015, Spotify introduced a new feature called Discover Weekly. It works like this: every Monday, Spotify presents you with a 30-song playlist—approximately two hours’ worth of music—based on “both your own listening as well as what others are playlisting and listening to around the songs you love, making…

Spotify is considering letting a handful of artists release new music to paying subscribers only. According to the Wall Street Journal, the streaming service is reversing course on its business plan because major stars, like Taylor Swift, are unhappy with the company’s current policy that all music must be released to…

It’s the time/ of the season/ to look at your Spotify Year in Music and be like, “Yeah, I took the emo revival a little too far.”

Music streaming giant Spotify has just announced a new global parental leave policy that is reasonable, necessary, and makes Amazon’s recent foray into more family-friendly leave policies look like the half-baked publicity fart it almost definitely was.

Halloween is enjoyable in moderation, but, as is the case with many vices, it is difficult to enjoy without overindulging. Every year, I set out to have a good spooky time, and before I know it, I’m huddled under a blanket with all the lights on because I thought it might be fun to cook dinner while the creepiness…

Spotify users have been taking “Netflix and chill” to a new level by creating themed playlists, which the music streaming company noticed, and decided to aggregate into their own. At the top of the list of the 20 most popular come-over-let’s-bone tracks is a hit from 1996—Ginuwine’s “Pony,” whose recent resurge in…

Spotify kicked up their privacy policy, and now the music streaming platform wants to… see your photos and know where you’re going? Or maybe just give you the option of putting your latest selfie atop a new playlist? Either way, users weren’t happy, and Spotify CEO Daniel Elk just apologized for trying to raid our…

This is a story about former One Direction member Zayn Malik, his new enemy Calvin Harris, Calvin’s girlfriend Taylor Swift, Taylor’s newish enemy Miley Cyrus, Taylor’s longtime enemy Spotify, Taylor’s almost-enemy Apple Music, and a Twitter user named Bitch Problems. So sit down, grab a cup of tea, and put a few…

Taylor Swift, music’s guardian white angel, just got Apple to come up off its money stacks.

Fox & Friends, deeply unfunny despite its best efforts, recently proved its propensity for selective truth extends to music criticism, as Elisabeth Hasselbeck chose one verse from an American Authors song—”I’m a little bit jealous/ I’m a little bit slow/ I’m a little bit hurtful/ and I don’t wanna let it go”—and used…

Hillary Clinton, Presidential candidate and purveyor of millennial-targeted merchandise, is fully ready to take this election thing by storm. And as everyone knows, to run for President, you have to have signature jams to back you up. Hillary just don’t stop thinkin’ about tomorrow.

Very Specific Playlists is a weekly feature in which Jezebel staffers make very specific Spotify playlists based on their weird proclivities.