Bonding with new people, maintaining contact with old friends or even finding cool stuff to do with the friends you have can sometimes be tough. Whether you like heavy bass booms, soothing lo-fi sounds, weird indie grooves, hit pop jams or killer rap verses, music is an all-encompassing artform that connects people from any walk of life. Woo a potential lover, deepen a friendship or get to know yourself with these acts of music.
Mix your musical DNA
The songs a person relates to often says a lot about who they are. Learn more about a friend and show that friend a bit of yourself by collaborating on a Spotify playlist together. Decide on a theme for your playlist: Do you just want to give each other a taste your respective likes? Are you trying to get hyped for an upcoming event together? Maybe you’d both like a smooth, flowy tracklist? Whatever the case, both of you get to share meaningful lyrics and beats that strike your heart with each other. By the end of it, you’ll have a tangible expression of the effort you’ve put into each other.
Flail around in the dark
If you and your music partner have lots of energy to burn or just want to forget your woes, put on some upbeat tracks and get ready to sweat away your sorrows. You can go out to a club or stay in with your own decorative lights, but either way, you can revel in the lack of self-consciousness you’ll experience with someone you trust there to cheer you on. Dancing like nobody’s watching has never been so easy when you have someone you love doing the same right next to you.
Flail around in the dark ft. live music
Step up your dancing game by dancing in front of the people who make the music you like! Snag cheaper local concert tickets, make a roadtrip to see your favorite artist that’s only playing the next state over or blow all your savings on music festival tickets forget your life for a few days. As long as you bring a person you care about or two, you’re bound to make musical memories that will inspire shower singing for days to come. Plus, you’ll always think fondly of whomever was with you everytime you hear a song by the artist you saw live.
Annoy your neighbors
Stay awake until the late hours of the night with another friend and leave behind your legacy. Produce or compose music and brainstorm lyrics as a group effort, and you’ll create something you can forever be proud of with someone you can forever claim as not only a friend but a partner. Perhaps you and your friends will someday become famous, and you’ll spread love not only to each other but to other people just like you looking to live through song.
Butcher a song for a crowd
If you’re not so musically-inclined, no worries. You and a friend can have just as much fun making noise by attending a karaoke night and wailing your hearts out to that song that you both think slaps. Being off tune won’t matter when you’re able to laugh along with your best pal. Even better, have someone in the audience record, and you’ll always remember the time you both couldn’t hit that note in “Don’t Stop Believin’” by Journey.
Speak in song
Sometimes, the best way to get close to someone is just to be honest. But sometimes, saying the right words is nearly impossible. Say what you really mean by sending a song — or a few — to your friend or lover. Lyrics will poetically proclaim your concern and support. More than that, often you hear songs that remind you of the people you love. Don’t be afraid to let them know you’re thinking of them! Send them that song, and they’ll have a sweet snippet to remember you by.
