Apple's Game-Changing Feature

Plus: Lady Gaga's new song, Ariana Grande's tour and Rolling Stone's Musicians on Musicians

September 05, 2025

👋 Remember when switching streaming services meant losing all your playlists? After years of being trapped by our own music libraries, Apple just delivered the solution we've been waiting for.

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FEATURE

🎧 Apple's Game-Changing Feature

Most streaming services make you rebuild your entire music library from scratch when you switch platforms. Apple Music said "that's ridiculous" and rolled out playlist importing across the US, UK, and more countries right when cross-platform features are becoming essential.

The rollout details:

  • Import playlists from any major streaming service through a simple settings menu

  • Available in US, UK, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, and Mexico after testing in Australia

  • Works through the app or web browser with detailed instructions from Apple Support

What makes this smart: Anyone who's ever been curious about different platforms knows rebuilding playlists feels like digital torture. Whether you're exploring options, sharing music with friends on different services, or just want flexibility, Apple basically removed the biggest barrier to platform experimentation.

The interesting timing: This launches as several indie rock bands like Hotline TNT, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and King Gizzard have left Spotify over concerns about CEO Daniel Ek's investments in defense AI company Helsing. Whether those departures matter to you or not, having easy playlist portability just became more valuable.

The genius move: Apple tested this quietly in smaller markets first, then rolled it out globally just as streaming competition intensified. They basically identified a universal pain point and solved it.

Bottom line: This isn't about platform loyalty - it's about making your music library truly portable. Finally, your carefully curated playlists can travel wherever the features you want are. 🎵

SONG OF THE WEEK

📀 “True Believer” by Hayley Williams| ⭐ 4.3/5

Williams delivers her most scathing critique of Southern Christianity disguised as a haunting, slow-burning confessional track.

  • It was released as one of 17 singles dropped simultaneously in July 2025, initially accessible only through her Good Dye Young website codes

  • Built around a hypnotic, monotonous melody that mirrors the trance-like repetition of evangelical worship services

  • Addresses Nashville's gentrification directly with lyrics about hardcore venues becoming Domino's pizza shops and memories turned into apartments

  • Resonated deeply with pastor's kids and religious trauma survivors who called it validation for their own deconstruction journeys

The song transforms Williams' personal faith crisis into her boldest artistic and political declaration yet.

Review of True Believer by eremitica - Musicboard

Review of True Believer by Hayley Williams. 🐇 rated the single 4.5 / 5 stars. This one had to grow on me. I love when Hayley utilizes her lower register like she does in the verses here, and though I wasn’t big on the chorus at first, I appreciate it’s kind of early 2000s alt feel. Lyrically, I think she did a much better job handling a more “political” topic than she has in ...

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