Adele, Spotify and how streaming changed the sound of music. Plus: an extremely online vocab test
After Adele got Spotify to hide their album shuffle button, Alyx Gorman, Michael Sun and Steph Harmon called up Aria-winner Georgia Mooney, of All Our Exes Live In Texas, to talk about writing music for the world of streaming – and trying to make a buck from it. Later, Alyx quizzes Michael and Steph on Macquarie Dictionary’s new contenders for Word of the Year
- Read up on the changes Spotify made to the shuffle button, by way of Adele – and here is a piece in the Guardian about how streaming is changing the music industry, and one from the Verge about Charlie XCX, and how Spotify changed song-writing.
- Georgia Mooney is playing shows with Youth Group’s Toby Martin soon; buy tickets here. And you can buy All Our Exes Live In Texas’ music here – and their merch here.
- Vote for Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year, and please follow this salient medical advice about dry scooping (don’t do it).
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