Spotify is a system that allows you to play music and link the songs you've listened to, to social networks(facebook) which allows you to display to your peers that you are a hip, non-mainstream person who has an impeccable taste in music.
John:"Man I really want to get Becky's attention and I feel a great way would be to use Spotify so I can show her my virtuoso taste in music."
-Plays said music
Becky:"Awwwww, I just saw John listening to Taking Back Sunday, he is so in tune with his feelings. We should date."
They start dating and live a long life together filled with marriage, kids, a couple dogs, and an excellent retirement plan. John can attribute the inception of the relationship as well as his life long success directly to Spotify.
spotify: want a break from the ads? if you tap now to watch a short video, you'll receive30 minutes of ad-free music. yes, really, if you tap now to watch a short video, you'll receive 30 minutes of ad-free music.
me: FINE, TAKE MY ONLY $15, I GUESS IM NOT GOING TO HAVE FOOD THIS WEEK
An app that will give you 100,000,000,000,000 ads every single second because they want you to sign up for spotify premium, which most of us can't afford. lol
Other then that, Its a good way to listen to music, good user interface, easy to use. Bad if you want to listen to unreleased Michael Jackson songs