Spotify’s new karaoke function that judges you like your friends secretly do, explained

Spotify karaoke is coming!!

Spotify has given us Wrapped at the holidays to remind us of all the weird stuff we listen to. There’s also the Spotify pie chart to do the same.

But now? Say hello to … Spotify karaoke!!!

That’s right, there’s now a way for some users — sorry, not all of you have it yet, we’ll get into that — to click a button, have the music get lower and sing along. AND on top of that? You’ll get judged, the same way your friends do when you deliver that off-key version of Friends in Low Places around 1 AM.

Let’s break it down: