 Rebecca Jennings, Vox.com. So just to summarize here, Sabrina Carpenter isn't an industry plant, or at least she's not a particularly new one. Spotify is recommending her a lot, but probably just because they think you'll like her, not because she's paying them to do so, probably. But if you're looking for a reason to be mad at Spotify, we might have one when we're back on Today Explained.