While SPOTIFY's paid subscription base continues to grow (it's now 113 million globally) and its average revenue per user shrinks—these two things are related—noted streaming skeptic THOM YORKE is here to tell us that what's missing between the numbers, besides sufficient artist royalties, is a way to connect those users to each other. There are endless paths to discovering music on streaming services, but how many of them feel truly communal? Do any of them? In Yorke's words: "I feel that 'If you like this, you’ll love this' or 'share this' is commodifying a deeply personal human experience between people. That experience is why music matters, because the experience stays with you forever." In mine: Could you maybe do a little work on your "Friend Activity" sidebar, SPOTIFY? The one you don't seem to have touched since the last time a team from Washington was in the WORLD SERIES? Or anything, really, to heighten the feeling that I'm listening and sharing and trading ideas with someone else? This is, of course, not entirely a music streaming problem. It's a digital universe problem. But gamers, at least, get to game with each other. And texters and tweeters get to text and tweet with each other, even if they literally never see each other. How can Spotify or APPLE or AMAZON or anyone get us to music with each other? How can they get us 113 million subscribers into fewer than 113 million individual rooms? Who's working on solving that?... FACEBOOK, meanwhile, wants to fill a gap in the digital ecosystem in how artists connect with fans, says TAMARA HRIVNAK, head of music business development and partnerships. That's important, too. As long as Facebook can convince the artists that those are actual fans and the fans that those are actual artists... A melancholic tip of the hat to MARISSA R. MOSS, one of my favorite country music follows on TWITTER, for predicting that LUKE BRYAN's "WHAT SHE WANTS TONIGHT" "will get 90% more adds than songs from women about what they actually want." She was, of course, right. Whether Luke Bryan is right about what the woman in his song wants ("my hands on her body") may depend on whether you're hearing the song on one of the 110 radio stations that added it last week or watching the video, which adds a twist. Either way, he told ROLLING STONE, "I think women listeners are going to like that the girl in the song controls the dynamic of the situation." Which apparently is intended to make sense in the world of country radio, which plays both kinds of music: songs by men about what men want and songs by men about what women want. There's said to be another kind, but maybe it's just a rumor. It's also rumored that the greatest country singer of the 21st century, who "couldn't get a single on the charts to save my life" when her last album came out but who did win the Song of the Year trophy at the 2018 ACM AWARDS, has a new album coming this Friday. Pass it on, if you can figure out anyone to pass it on to... NPR MUSIC is streaming surprise live shows all week from the TINY DESK inside its Washington, D.C., HQ. The Tiny Desk Fest kicked off Monday night with MEGAN THEE STALLION and PHONY PPL... Baby, it's woke outside... MORRISSEY invents the autographed album once removed.