Oh What We'll Do

It's a pain only a Spotify listener can know.  It aches; it throbs; and it goes on and on.  It's called the Endometriosis Spotify ad.

"Stop right there – something spoke to you?"

The ads on Spotify annoy me incredibly.  Sometimes you hear the same two ads over and over and over again for three hours.  And often times, it appears that you can listen to music for half-an-hour without a single break for an ad.  Other times, only two songs play before a commercial pops in.  And do I even need to mention the condom ad?  And how are half these commercials relevant to me?

Many of them are creative, I'll give them that.  An orange juice playlist to get me dancing?  That certainly stood out to me.

But oh, the things we'll put up with in order to listen to our music.  And it's funny, because there are many other listening options.  FM radio is the traditional one.  Pandora is a convenient option, with playlists all set and ready to go for you; and Songza is your ever ready slave, presenting time- and day-relevant genres.  And Songza doesn't have audio ads.  And there are more and more online stations and phone apps every day.

But music snobs would much rather put up with the same three annoying commercials than lose their music selection.  They would much rather slave for hours to perfect their playlists than play one already set to go for them.

We are such bratty, spoiled snobs after all.