Spotify Wrapped Is One of the Last Great Mass Cultural Events

By Bonnie Stiernberg Here at InsideHook HQ, we’ve been bemoaning the death of the monoculture for quite some time. Last year, the pandemic provided a brief, welcome return to the pleasures of watching or experiencing the same piece of pop culture at the same time as we all found ourselves confined to our homes desperate for something — anything! — to talk about besides COVID-19. We live-tweeted each new episode of The Last Dance and, in the very early days of lockdown, convinced each other to watch Tiger King. It was comforting, but it was short-lived. Now that we’ve all gradually inched close…

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