This is the second time I've been subjected in public to what I'm pretty sure are Spotify covers, e.g. new versions of songs that aren't soundalikes exactly but certainly don't add anything interesting, being played on a coffee shop's PA. The first one was Maps but just slightly defanged, and just now it was This Must Be The Place but with a vocalist who sounded figuratively, but not literally, like he was generated by AI. I Shazammed the first one - if that's ironic in some way, we can talk about that some other time - but I have yet to do anything to try and verify my theory that it's a Spotify-produced version.
I wonder how I can best help to create a norm of public venues noticing, perhaps even skipping and/or reporting these songs. But maybe that's silly.