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How to put together a great playlist

 If you've watched "High Fidelity" (the movie or the new series), you will probably remember the scenes where Rob talks about the art of making a playlist. This blog post is inspired by that, I've also added my advice and tipps. Here are 10 steps to a great playlist:

1. have a cool theme. 

This can be either songs that all contain the same word (like for example "yellow") in their title or just have similar ~vibes~ (I prefer the latter tho, while it's fun to put playlists that contain the same word in the title, I don't find listening to them as interesting as to the ones with a similar musical theme). One example would be to have songs that have a light airy flow to them, or dark depressed songs. Or the most common probably ... love songs.

2. don't use too many songs by the same artist (unless that's your theme as Rob said lol). It showes more creativity (and that you know more bands and artists) if you use different ones and still manage to fit them in the theme.

3. start strong and catch their attention.

Studies show that people only take a few seconds to decide on whether or not they like a song. Don't use your "best" song yet tho, that one is for later.

4. the second song has to be a bit less exciting, but still has to be engaging and interesting. 

5. after that something slow and chill would fit well

6. Switch between a song that's a tad more exciting and one that's more chill, but make sure that it feels natural and that the flow is organic.

7. build up and then use your "best" song (the song that gets your message accross the best, or the one that inspired your playlist, ...) in the finale.

8. like with lunches, end with a desert and serve your listener something sweet at the end.

9. don't forget to give the playlist an interesting title, something that perfectly captures the essence of it.

10. most importantly, have fun, f the rules, even this post is not gospel. Make your own rules, see what works for you, mess around. Music is not supposed to follow a certain scheme anyways.


If you do chose to follow the rules above, I've drawn a scetch of what I think the "perfect" playlist sounds like. And definetly check out High Fidelity, I haven't read the book (yet) but I've heard it's good too. And Zoe Kravitz is really pretty in the series lol.

Also disclamer: the "playlist of the month" playlists on this blog aren't rlly following this, they are more a lose bundle of songs that I particularly liked that month, but maybe I'll post some themed playlists in the future


Love,

Pluto
 

PS: 

please leave a comment, I'm interested in if someone actually reads this blog lol. Still figuring all of this stuff out, so suggestions on how to improve it are very welcome! 

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