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Spotify is the Way to My Heart
Expressing Your Feelings and Dancing Through the Pain
Back in 2017, the Internet was consumed by a flirting strategy for those struggling to tell a crush how they felt. Hannah Woodley, a 17-year old who couldn’t figure out the best way to confess her feelings to her crush, took to Spotify and ignited a trend many called “Spotify Flirting”.
Hannah decided to create a Spotify playlist, carefully constructed to make a message through song titles. She then posted a screenshot of her work on Twitter and the strategy exploded in popularity. Soon, there were hundreds of commenters posting screenshots of their own clever playlists.
I remember hearing about “Spotify Flirting” on Twitter and I couldn’t help but smile as I browsed through the comments of the many hopeless romantics vying for their crush’s attention. Although I was in a committed relationship at the time, I thought back to my years in high school and wished I had been as clever as Hannah. Sure, I had gone the route of compacting a mixtape for my girlfriend back when I was still crushing on her from a distance, but I never worked up the courage to give it to her until we had been…
