{"id":11912,"date":"2026-02-25T12:44:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=11912"},"modified":"2026-02-25T12:44:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:44:02","slug":"was-the-liquid-death-x-spotify-speaker-collab-a-grave-mistake-for-the-beloved-water-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=11912","title":{"rendered":"Was the Liquid Death x Spotify Speaker Collab a Grave Mistake for the Beloved Water Brand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>For the most part, I would say that Liquid Death has a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/liquid-death-and-fruity-pebbles-collab-on-sparkling-cereal-water-and-its-not-as-unhinged-as-you-think\/\">pretty good track record<\/a>\u00a0when it comes to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/liquid-death-and-elf-collab-to-murder-your-black-metal-beauty-needs\/\">brand collabs<\/a>, but you\u2019d be justified in saying that they\u2019ve jumped the shark and hit a cultural saturation point where their schtick is starting to feel tired.<\/p>\n<p>That said, for a company built on purpose (<a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/should-liquid-deaths-powdered-drink-mix-raise-doubts-about-its-death-to-plastic-mission\/\">death to plastic<\/a><em>, anyone<\/em>?), they sure did pick a questionable partner for their latest piece of trick marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Liquid Death and Spotify have now partnered for a wireless Bluetooth speaker. Dubbed the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/liquiddeath.com\/pages\/spotify-urn\">Eternal Playlist Urn<\/a>, the speaker is shaped like a vessel for your loved one\u2019s cremains, and after the ol\u2019 eye test, maybe you can jam some jams\u00a0<em>and<\/em>ashes into that Liquid Death and Spotify-branded pot. Only 150 of the 7-inch-by-11.4-inch speakers exist, and they will retail for $495. Now, all you need to do is just have Spotify generate an afterlife playlist based on your listening habits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><button id=\"expand-paywall-button\" class=\"expand-paywall-button\">Subscribe to Read More<\/button><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/was-the-liquid-death-x-spotify-speaker-collab-a-grave-mistake-for-the-beloved-water-brand\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the most part, I would say that Liquid Death has a\u00a0pretty good track record\u00a0when it comes to\u00a0brand collabs, but you\u2019d be justified in saying that they\u2019ve jumped the shark and hit a cultural saturation point where their schtick is starting to feel tired. That said, for a company built on purpose (death to plastic, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[3564,3565,3122,3566,3567,3568,2951,3569,570,2474,3570,3571,3572,3573,54],"class_list":["post-11912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news","tag-artist-royalties","tag-bluetooth-speaker","tag-brand-collaborations","tag-corporate-ethics","tag-cultural-saturation","tag-daniel-ek","tag-dieline","tag-eternal-playlist-urn","tag-limited-edition","tag-liquid-death","tag-marketing-critique","tag-music-industry","tag-spotify","tag-stunt-marketing","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}