#the other thing i liked about 8tracks was you uploaded your own mp3s (lol) so I'd include weird things like recorded poetry

[bloomfish]

the thing is i miss 8tracks so much. and i was so good at it lol several of my mixes were very popular on there and not just fandom stuff I had mixes that were like "for when you're drowning in melancholy" or "a mix for the boredom of a young girl in small town suburbia". the thing about spotify is that the playlist function encourages you to dump as many songs as possible into it. so when I look at the playlists that have a lot of likes its just the most random collection of stuff, no thought put into it at all beyond "this vaguely fits the theme/style" and you'll have playlists with good semi-obscure stuff but then randomly taylor swift. whereas I would agonise over the song selection (and i still do) and the ORDER the songs were in, like I made sure the mix transitioned smoothly and I would do so much digging to find the perfect songs in terms of style and lyrics as well. there's no market for that anymore! i wish it was my job i should become a DJ

#ive never livedin small town suburbia so idk where i was getting that from. but it had platinum cries #though i dont think that one was one of my best #the ones i'm proudest of are probably the ones i made for the planets in mass effect andromeda. which i only played once lol #but i've put them all on spotify to listen to them lol. they were mostly ambient #and i had a few dishonored ones which were also very good #the other thing i liked about 8tracks was you uploaded your own mp3s (lol) so I'd include weird things like recorded poetry