I mean, how do you get to know somebody if you cannot hear what they’re thinking through music? I remember making mix tapes tapes in my youth. I remember receiving mixtapes in my youth. I’m sure, if I still had a tape recorder and those cassettes, I would still be listening to them.
Next types put me onto things like the joys of people like Rodriguez, Johnny Clegg and many other artists of the 80s, many of whom were South African, who I would’ve never heard of if they weren’t put onto said mix tapes.
And there is no romance in a playlist.
At least a mixed tape was something physical, even it's successor, the CD has some sort of permanence, opposed to a playlist which goes out there in the affair and sits around on Spotify doing nothing (And what if, like me, you don’t have a Spotify account? And yes, I know that I am a bit of an enigma with this, but like not getting an air fryer, I don’t see the point and there are other things out there that do the job.)
Here is a question. If you were getting to know somebody now, and you were asked to make them a mixtape, what would you put on there? How would you tailor this list of songs? Which era would you focus on? How confident would you be that this person was still your friend after listening to this list of songs? What would you like that person to discover about you through your music?
It’s just an interesting list of questions. Next tapes used to be so much of our lives, back in the day. How can the youth of the day feel complete When I have never had to compose a digital list on a piece of magnetise plastic, often waiting near a radio for a song to come on. Will they ever experience that sort of anticipation, or regret when an ad cuts through the song?
How do they get to know their friends? For without music who are we?
I'm going to ponder this and maybe write about it tomorrow - for anything is better than writing about Revenue functions and the role of the SDC marker on customer accounts.
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