You’ll not have an excuse to mess up the lyrics of each track. Spotify is lastly including a live lyrics function, so all you need to do is play a track to lastly discover out if Taylor Swift is singing about “Starbucks lovers” (the reply, sadly, isn’t any).

Spotify teamed up with Musixmatch to completely combine stay lyrics into the app. The firm already powers Spotify’s lyrics search, which turns up track outcomes based mostly on lyrics you sort within the search bar. The stay lyrics function is accessible to each free and premium Spotify customers globally.

Spotify began testing stay lyrics inside its app again in February, although it was solely accessible to a small subset of take a look at customers. On-screen lyrics have been one of many firm’s most generally requested options.

Spotify had a lyrics snippet function earlier than this, powered by the lyric and annotation firm Genius, which extracts attention-grabbing tidbits in regards to the track’s lyrics and historical past as you’re listening to it. Engadget had reported earlier this yr that this function would doubtless go away if Spotify selected to launch the stay lyrics capability.

To see the brand new stay lyrics, open Spotify on iOS or Android and faucet on the Now Playing view on a track. As you’re listening, swipe up from the underside to disclose the lyrics, which is able to scroll up in real-time.

Suppose there’s a specific line that speaks to you. In that case, you’ll be able to faucet the Share button on the button to pick out the lyrics you need to put out into the world, the identical method an getting older millennial (me) would painstakingly sort out traces from Taking Back Sunday’s “There’s No ‘I’ In Team” to share in an AIM amethod message. Listen, feel your emotions!

The lyrics function can even be built-in into the Spotify desktop app and its respective TV apps by means of the identical Now Playing menu. You also can entry it out of your recreation console, together with the PlayStation 4, PS5 and the Xbox One.