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# Liz Pelly of Spotify exposé Mood Machine: Jay Gilbert interviews
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/liz-pelly-of-spotify-expose-mood-machine-jay-gilbert-interviews/
- Published: 2025-01-31T16:21:24.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-31T16:28:51.000Z
- Description: On a special edition of the Your Morning Coffee podcast, co-host Jay Gilbert sits down with author Liz Pelly of Spotify exposé “Mood Machine, the Rise of Spotify and the Costs. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2025/01/liz-pelly-of-spotify-expose-mood-machine-jay-gilbert-interviews.h
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Business, Music Tech, Streaming, DIY musicians, music, music industry, musician, musicians, Spotify, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:15

On a special edition of the Your Morning Coffee podcast, co-host Jay Gilbert sits down with author Liz Pelly of Spotify exposé “Mood Machine, the Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist.” **LISTEN HERE:**

![Liz Pelly of Spotify exposé ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/spcdn-shortpixel-ai/spio/ret_img-q_cdnize/www-hypebot-com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/pelly-book.jpg)

#### This book is rocking the music industry, not just with [behind the scenes details](https://www.hypebot.com/liz-pelly-mood-machine-investigation-questions-spotifys-financial-integrity/), but by offering an unvarnished view of how Spotify has reshaped – often for the worse – how music is discovered and consumed.

### **Liz Pelly of Spotify exposé Mood Machine: Jay Gilbert interviews**

Liz Pelly and Jay Gilbert discuss Spotify’s early years as an online advertising business vs. the common narrative of Daniel Ek as having created a legal alternative to music piracy, Ghost Artists, functional music, Perfect Fit Content (PFC), Streaming as Surveillance, Pro-rata, user-centric vs. artist-centric payout models and much more.

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