Music streaming giant Spotify is always attempting to improve upon their discovery tools, helping you happen upon new music that you might like and rediscover the music you used to love through curated playlists. Their newest playlist, “Time Capsule,” uses an algorithm based on your current and past listening habits to guess what you used to listen to when you were a teenager, and puts it all into a nice, neat, probably super embarrassing playlist ready for you to reminisce over. But hey, that’s the whole fun of it…
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Since its launch on Friday, fans everywhere have weighed in on the new Spotify playlist feature, and the reviews are pretty uniform: Whatever magical algorithm the streaming service is using to guess your deepest, darkest musical skeletons is creepily accurate. Did you go through an emo phase back when Fall Out Boy was all the range? That’ll be on your Time Capsule list. Were you just, like, crazy into Britney Spears‘ early stuff? Did you listen to “The Hardest Part of Breaking Up (Is Getting Back Your Stuff)” by 2gether on repeat when the MTV quasi-real boy band was all the rage? Were you a sucker for Ja Rule‘s sweet, sweet rasp? There’s a good chance that Spotify knows about it, and that those gems from your musical past willl show up in your Time Capsule.
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Whatever your guilty pleasures and former flavors of the day/week/month may lurk in your pass, Spotify’s new Time Capsule playlist somehow traces your current tastes back and comes up with, by all accounts, an eerily accurate but wholly welcome trip down memory lane.
You can get your own customized Spotify Time Capsule playlist by following this link. Check it out, let the algorithm work its magic, and see what musical memories it happens to dig up.
[h/t – The Ringer]