Feeling sad is a universal emotion, and it’s easy to find a corporation’s attempt to quantify that emotion for promotional gain equally humorous and off-putting, and that about sums up our approach here.
Let’s break down the criteria here: These 56 songs have been arranged from least to most effective, according to the playlist’s stated (and, despite its assumed glibness, slightly aggressive) mission statement of intensifying the morose mood listeners may be in when seeking it out.Ī note before we begin: this ranking is not intended to make light of depressive feelings or mental-health issues - similar to how, one would hope, Spotify wasn’t intending to make light of mental-health issues when putting this together. What follows is an extensive ranking of every song featured in the 3-hour-40-minute playlist - but this is no ordinary “Worst to Best” ranking. “These songs will probably only make you feel worse, but at least they’ll let you know you’re not alone.” Will they actually, though?
“Feeling like everything just plain sucks? We’ve all been there,” says the intro to the whopping 56-song collection, which was created in April of this year and currently counts over 1.2 million followers. Which brings us to the “Life Sucks” playlist. For the latter service, there seems to be playlists for pretty much any mood and situation. The rapper Cyhi the Prynce once said on Kanye West’s “So Appalled,” “If God had an iPod, I’d be on his playlist.” The method of music storage might be outdated now, but playlists loom larger than ever in the streaming era of music-listener culture, with subscription services like Apple Music and Spotify acting as the presumptive deities.
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