Spotify Wrapped rolled out a new way to psychoanalyze yourself this year with its “listening age” card, and plenty of adults watched their profiles age faster than a banana. One minute you’re coasting along on your usual Wrapped dopamine hit, and the next, Spotify informs you that your musical identity belongs to someone who probably remembers rotary phones.

Professor Susan Krauss Whitbourne explained in Psychology Today that the company calculated this number by locking onto your most-played release years and matching them to the age someone would’ve been when those songs first landed.

Psychologists have been chasing a clean measure of “how old someone feels” for decades, and it never quite works. People shade the truth. People round down. People insist they’re still 27 inside. Listenin

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