This morning, Spotify pulled a prank on a bunch of their users by replacing their automatically generated “Discover Weekly” playlists with “Discocover Weekly” playlists instead for April Fool’s Day.
The entire playlist was composed of disco covers such as Taylor Swift’s rendition of “September,” Lizzo’s cover of “Stayin’ Alive,” The Fall’s rendition of “Lost in Music,” and Babe’s in Toyland’s cover of “We Are Family.” The interesting thing is that each playlist was still individually tailored to each user’s likes, so you probably got some covers from artists you regularly listen to.
Check out some reactions to the streaming service’s prank below.
Spotify’s April fools prank is pretty good tho pic.twitter.com/yTSdvzJdtS
— Christopher Mims ? (@mims) April 1, 2019
umm did i just get pranked by @Spotify????! fml i was wondering why my whole discover weekly playlist was so off n i just realised it was an april fools prank ???
— • LIV (@livnissan) April 1, 2019
Wow @Spotify got me good with the April Fools disco-cover discover weekly ? although I was digging the ABBA covers
— Alli Woodard (@alli_woodard) April 1, 2019
Lead photo courtesy of @mims on Twitter.
