Listen to music like it's 2005

Indeed. There are even scientific studies which found that more and more people just consume (anonymous) playlists according to their mood, not caring who actually composed or played it. Spotify "helped" music to become an anonymous commodity; people buy it by liter, meter or kilogram, like food, and consume it to meet a specific function. This is essentially one of three groups. There is also a group of people that primarily wants to worship artists and consumes everything that has been “created” by these artists (or rather, the many people who work for them), regardless of whether they actually like it or not; the music could also be generated by a computer and attributed to the artists, and people would hardly notice (there are also scientific studies that show that hardly anyone can distinguish between music generated by humans and computers); for them, famous artists are primarily important because they make the music they want to listen to (not because of their hairstyles or status). The author likely belongs to the latter group, so he essentially describes why he doesn't like the tools optimized for the other groups, which is kind of self-evident.