Do you know Chappell Roan drew inspiration for her hit music Pink Pony Membership from The Pink Cadillac, the title of a hot-pink strip membership in her Missouri hometown? Or that Fountains of Wayne’s music Stacy’s Mother was impressed by a confessed crush a pal had on the late co-founder Adam Schlesinger’s grandmother?
In the event you’re a fan of realizing juicy little tidbits about fashionable songs, you may discover extra trivia in Concerning the Track, a brand new function from streaming large Spotify that is type of just like the outdated VH1 present Pop-Up Video.
Concerning the Track is out there within the US, UK, New Zealand and Australia, initially for Spotify Premium members solely. It is solely on sure songs, however it can seemingly hold rolling out to extra music. Music info are sourced from a wide range of web sites and summarized by AI, and seem beneath the music’s lyrics if you’re enjoying a selected music.
“Music followers know the sensation: A music stops you in your tracks, and also you instantly wish to know extra. What impressed it, and what is the which means behind it? We imagine that understanding the craft and context behind a music can deepen your connection to the music you like,” Spotify wrote in a blog post.
Whereas this model of the function is new, it isn’t the primary time Spotify has featured enjoyable info in regards to the music it performs. The streaming large partnered with Genius a decade in the past for Behind the Lyrics, which included themed playlists with factoids and trivia about every music. Spotify saved this up for just a few years earlier than canceling because of a number of controversies, together with Paramore’s Hayley Williams blasting Genius for utilizing inaccurate and outdated info.
Spotify soon started testing its Storyline function, which featured enjoyable info about songs in a restricted capability for some customers, however was by no means launched as a central function.
Concerning the Track is the most recent in an extended string of bulletins from Spotify, together with a Page Match feature that permits you to seamlessly swap to an audiobook from a bodily ebook, and an AI tool that creates playlists for you. Spotify additionally not too long ago introduced that it will start selling physical books.
Learn how to use Concerning the Track
In the event you’re a Spotify Premium person, the function must be out there the subsequent time you hearken to music on the app.
- Begin listening to any supported music.
- Scroll down previous the lyrics preview field to the Concerning the Track field.
- Swipe left and proper to see extra info in regards to the music.
I attempted this with just a few tracks, and was happy to study that it does not simply work for the newest hits. Spotify’s card for Metallica’s 1986 music Grasp of Puppets notes the music’s surge in recognition after its cameo in a 2022 episode of Stranger Issues. The second card discusses the band’s album artwork for Grasp of Puppets and the way it was conceptualized.
To see how far help for the function actually went, I appeared up just a few tracks from off the crushed path, like NoFX’s The Decline and Ice 9 Kills’ Thank God It is Friday. Spotify supported each monitor I personally checked.
There does seem like a restrict to the depth of the enjoyable info, which is sensible since not each music has an advanced story. For these songs, Spotify defaults to trivia in regards to the album that options the music or an AI abstract of the lyrics and what they could imply.
