Last night, SNL weighed in on a modern annual rite: taking stock of the past year through data-driven retrospective lists. But the usual exercise in mapping one's consumption patterns soon transformed into an uncomfortably real humiliation ritual. The advertisement spoof began innocuously, introducing the 2025 edition of Spotify 'Wrapped''the streaming service's popular year-in-review feature that repackages data gathered from individual listeners into brightly hued, shareable statistics'which the show also tackled last year. When Spotify revealed to Andrew Dismukes's character that he'd jammed to 2,705 minutes of Steely Dan since January, his character smiled knowingly: 'Yeah, that tracks.' In her role, Ashley Padilla was similarly thrilled to learn that she'd listened to enough Sabrina Carpenter in 2025 to be one of the pop singer's top global listeners. Then, the advertisement introduced a different way of measuring 'who you truly were this year,' as the voice-over cheerily...
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