Reddit sharemusic5/6/2023 Where are we supposed to keep the social media song tradition alive? Tinder? Friends, we deserve better. Sure, there's Spotify and Apple Music, but those display everything we listen to, not just the songs that have made a particular impact. MySpace and Xanga as we know them are gone, Facebook is overrun with olds, and tweeting an earnest song lyric on Twitter (hell) is a recipe for disaster. It's harder to do these things on the internet now. In some cases, these posts were musical thirst traps - we wanted a particular person (usually a crush) to read, understand, and respond. In high school and college, my friends and I posted Facebook statuses with lyrics and YouTube links to declare how we were feeling. (For 14-year-old me, this was inexplicably "With Arms Outstretched" by Rilo Kiley). In the storied MySpace era - a simpler time online - the profile song was a means of distilling, then expressing the identity you believed yourself to possess. Please Instagram, don't take away my mindless, time-killing scrolling You just have to wait for the Stories to roll in. You wouldn't necessarily feel comfortable texting them to ask for music recommendations, right? Here, you don't have to. Inevitably, you follow people on Instagram whom you don't know that well, but you think are extremely cool. It's also a great way to discover new music. Users can do this through Spotify and Soundcloud as well as through Instagram directly, which means your feed is probably full of people advertising that they're listening to "7 rings." Yes, this can be annoying. ![]() ![]() One particularly unpopular practice is posting music to Stories. Some people scoff at sunset pics some don't like overlong birthday posts some swear they'll throw their phones into the ocean if they see another person film their laptop while they watch The Great British Baking Show. There's no right way to do Instagram, but everyone has a pet peeve. is a weekly column where we share the stuff we're really into in hopes that you'll be really into it, too.
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