Another social media user claimed the issue was “the case with lots of musicals on Spotify”, adding that the cast recordings of the Stephen Sondheim show Company often have “extra/missing lyrics”.
Musicals theatre fans issue complaint to Spotify over ‘embarrassing’ error involving hit shows ‘Riddled with typos,’ one user said.
A genre that users have repeatedly reported to be affected is musical theatre, with one person on X/Twitter highlighting mistakes in the lyrics for the Hairspray Live rendition of “(The Legend of) Miss Baltimore Crabs”.
One X/Twitter user dubbed the on-screen lyrics a “mess”, adding they were “embarrassingly incorrect and riddled with typos” and begged the streaming platform to rectify the errors immediately.
In the UK, Spotify’s real-time lyrics are provided by Musixmatch – an Italian music data company who also work with Apple Music and Instagram.
