For years, listeners have surrendered their musical identity to an invisible system, trusting that a machine could know them better than they know themselves. Spotify's new Taste Profile feature, rolling out in beta to US Premium subscribers, quietly reverses that assumption — offering users a hand in shaping the algorithmic mirror that reflects their taste back to them. It is a small but meaningful concession: an acknowledgment that even the most sophisticated curation cannot fully hold the complexity of a human listener.