On Making It Up 115, Charis and Eugene talk about Spotify’s recent acquisition of The Ringer and the effects of media consolidation. They also discuss a personal essay that describes the discomfort felt in hearing black music become the default choice for high end spaces and how black music is cherrypicked as being beneficial to commercial spaces.

Timestamps

00:01:52 Spotify and The Ringer

00:26:26 Black music

Links

• The Verge: Spotify needed a huge podcast, and it just bought one of the biggest
• Slate: Heard but Not Seen — Black music in white spaces.