New Zealand singer Lorde has publicly criticised Spotify's "About the Song" feature, an AI-powered tool currently in beta that pulls context and background information about tracks from third-party sources. She said on Instagram that artists "don't want this", arguing that the AI-generated descriptions reduce songs to a single interpretation and stifle listeners' freedom to interpret music for themselves, while also calling on Spotify to let artists opt out of the feature.

Lorde's complaint was prompted by an inaccurate AI summary attached to her song "Current Affairs", which wrongly described a striptease-and-water performance from her Ultrasound World Tour as happening during that track. Spotify has since removed the description and told Pitchfork the feature is still in beta, that its content is drawn from articles across the internet, and that it moves quickly to correct errors, though it did not address Lorde's opt-out request directly.