How Bad Is Your Spotify? The Pudding’s Snarky AI Bot Will Tell You!

Discover everything you need to know regarding Pudding.cool’s savage AI bot that roasts your music taste to ashes.

Spotify Wrapped and Apple Music Replay are great ways to look at your music listening habits for the past year. However, you might find yourself starting to get bored with these summaries. After all, they can be repetitive, especially if you check them out year after year.

It surely doesn’t help that your Spotify Wrapped can make listening to the same artist for three years sound like a good thing. The yearly recap’s bright colors, and its fun, optimistic vibe can sometimes be a bit much, prompting you to look for a change of pace.

Luckily, you’re in the right place. Unique and refreshing in its honest take on your music taste, Pudding.cool’s snarky AI bot might just be what you need. In this article, we’ll explain what this AI bot is, how it judges your music taste, and many more. If this sounds like what you need, keep reading!

What Is Pudding.cool’s ‘Judge My Music’ All About?

‘Judge My Music’ or ‘How Bad Is Your Streaming Music?’ is an artificial intelligence (AI) bot that analyzes music data. Specifically, this bot looks at your artist, album, genre, and track data from streaming apps, and, based on insights from your data, roasts your taste in music.

After giving the bot access to your account, you’ll be able to read its impressions regarding your music data in real time. You’ll find snide remarks on your music choice and condescending prompts, like, “Did you really listen to this song, like, ironically?” Or even “Are you okay?” after enumerating your top artists and albums.

Once the bot finishes analyzing your music data, it summarizes your music taste in one hyphenated phrase – for instance, “tay-tay-fangirl-cabincore-trendy-middle-part bad.” The bot also offers extra descriptors of your music taste using other hyphenated terms, such as “k-pop-for-breakfast bad” or “mason-jar-candle-from-target bad.”

With its unique way of interpreting music data, it’s no surprise that this bot and its snarky remarks have gained popularity on social media. A lot of people have taken to Twitter and Instagram to share their results and poke fun at the bot’s savage pronouncements, such as:

How to Access ‘Judge My Music’

Given the novelty and uniqueness the Pudding.cool Spotify/Apple Music AI has to offer, anyone would be curious to try it out. Here’s how:

Spotify

To use the Pudding.cool Spotify add-on, follow these steps:

1. Head to How Bad Is Your Streaming Music? and click on Find Out.

   

2. Wait for the algorithm to finish initializing. Then click on Log in with Spotify.
   Apart from logging in with Spotify or Apple music, there is also an option to click how do you know what’s good? This option will prompt the AI to explain its basis for determining if your music is good or bad.

   

3. You will be redirected to Spotify’s log-in page. Enter your username and password, then click Log In.

   

4. You will be prompted to allow bad-music, a third-party app, to view your Spotify data and activity. Click on Agree.

   

5. You will now see the bot analyze your data in real time.

   

Apple Music

If you want to laugh over the bot picking apart your music choice in Apple Music, here’s what you need to do:

1. Head to How Bad Is Your Streaming Music? and click on Find Out.

   

2. Wait for the algorithm to finish initializing. Select Music Log in with Apple Music.

   

3. The bot will warn you that you must log in with your Apple ID for one-time access to your music history. To proceed with using the AI, click Sounds good!
   You can select Wait, I’m logging in with my Apple ID?? to learn more about how the website ensures your information is safe.

   

4. A pop-up window will open, where you can sign in with your Apple ID. Enter your Apple ID and password to grant the bot access to your music history.

   

5. You will now see the bot analyze your data in real time.

How Does ‘Judge My Music’ Work?

Now, you might be wondering how the Pudding.cool AI calculates its results. How does it analyze your music data, and how does it know what’s good or bad?

Well, this AI bot doesn’t actually use real artificial intelligence to “judge” your music taste. Instead, its algorithm matches jokes from The Pudding’s database with insights from your music track data.

The AI’s verdict on your music taste comes from “over two million indicators of objectively good music” from which the bot is trained. And these include Pitchfork reviews, music discovery websites, music news, reviews and commentaries, obscure subreddits, and record store recommendations.

Also, because of how the app analyzes your data, the prompts are not entirely personalized from user to user. Indeed, some users have noticed similar roasts and questions, despite listening to different songs and artists.

Is the Pudding’s ‘Judge My Music’ Safe?

Using The Pudding’s Judge My Music requires you to log in via Spotify or Apple, so it’s normal to fret about your data’s safety and privacy.

Luckily, The Pudding has taken many steps to ensure the safety and security of your data, as detailed on their Privacy Policy page. Similarly, you can check their FAQs on data privacy at the lower-right side of the How Bad Is Your Streaming Music? page.

The Pudding assures users that their Spotify or Apple Music data are not saved. After logging in with your streaming account, the website creates a unique, secure one-time code to check your top songs, tracks, artists, and recent playlists.

This access is temporary, which means they won’t be able to access your data until you come back and log in again. Additionally, this also means no information regarding your username or password is shared with The Pudding.

How to revoke app access from ‘Judge My Music’

However, if you’re still worried about your data safety and privacy, you can remove The Pudding’s access to your streaming accounts entirely.

On Spotify, you can revoke the bot’s access via Spotify’s 3rd Party app page. Here’s how:

1. Go to your Spotify account’s Third Party app page.

   

2. Look for bad-music, then click on the Remove Access button to its right.

   

3. You have successfully revoked The Pudding’s access to your account.

   

Conclusion

Using The Pudding’s AI bot is undoubtedly a wild ride. From calling you out on repeatedly listening to the same artists, to rating how basic your music taste is, it’s a unique experience you wouldn’t want to miss or a good alternative for when you can’t see your Spotify Wrapped.

So, if you were previously wondering if you should try it out, we hope this article has answered any questions you might have! Now, you can be sure that using this bot is easy as pie. Plus, revoking access is super simple, too, so there’s no need to worry about the security of your data.

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