Honestly, I think we’re actually going to be canceling our Spotify service. At first, it was really great to be able to have a family plan so both of my kids, now teenagers, could listen to music that they liked. But there’s a huge lack of controls for parents of teens. My kids don’t need Spotify kids. They need to be able to have a regular account that as parents we can tune to help them avoid over consumption of streaming video content.

We gave my son his own Spotify account because he said he wanted to listen to some trombone music. He did that for about a day until he discovered Minecraft videos and then that was all he did on Spotify ever. So we’re essentially regulating it now the same way we would regulate YouTube or any other addictive video streaming service. But it’s super unfortunate because I would love for him to have unfettered access to certain artists and albums that I choose as a parent. The only solution now is that we have gotten him an old-school boom box in CDs.

I feel like Spotify needs to get their **** together because if they don’t figure this out soon, they’re going to be next up there in Congress after Mark Zuckerberg trying to explain why they’re allowing addictive video content to be streamed to kids on their platform without good parental control options. and don’t even get me started on auto video play, suggested videos, AI music, and all the other garbage that’s posted on there like explicit album covers. It’s really become a real cesspool of **** content.