Today, a colleague born after 2000 asked me what I use to listen to music.

I said NetEase Cloud.
He laughed and said that's for old people, now everyone just skips songs.
He told me to download Soda Music, saying its algorithm is super accurate, much better than my crappy playlist.
I did it in front of him.
Opened it, the first recommended song on the homepage was a ringtone I’ve used for ten years.
The second was the last song my ex shared with me when we broke up.
The third was the song I looped all night at the funeral home the year my dad passed away.
I handed him my phone and said, your algorithm really is more accurate than my playlist.
It finished off the debt I hadn’t listened to in ten years in just a few minutes.
He didn’t say anything.
I uninstalled Soda Music.
NetEase Cloud is still on my phone, the playlist hasn’t been updated in a long time, but I know why each song is there.
The algorithm doesn’t know.