Music courtship

I bought a new pair of headphones (actually, to be somewhat technically anal about it which I gather is de rigeur in headphone cycles: in-ear phones) the other week, which meant that my iPod is going through somewhat of a Renaissance. Now I can actually listen to my music on the Tube; with the standard-issue headphones I couldn't turn up the sound loud enough to hear anything and not get a million angry looks my way for being a tad too social with my somewhat eclectic musical taste which not everyone seems to appreciate. I'm rediscovering the music on it again, listening to more podcasts than ever and enjoying it lots. How could I have forgotten about the genius of The Black Crowes? Or Aretha Franklin? And Geert Mak has me glued to my earphones with his rendering of his book In Europe.

This new listening-revival made me think back to other times when I was heavily into listening to music, which more often than not coincided with being in a love with a guy. Inevitably, the guy would make tapes (and later on CD's), which would be slipped into my hands with short notes confessing endless undying love. I discovered Pink Floyd this way, have good memories of Lenny Kravitz, discovered a love of Lynnyrd Skynnyrd that endures to this day. That lead me to wonder, what do youngsters nowadays do in terms of musical wooing? Burn CD's? Buy each other songs on iTunes? Make a personalized Myspace page? Make a playlist on Last.fm or Pandora? Anyone have any idea how the musical wooing / courtship takes place in 2007?

Comments

[Abhishek]

I have been a regular reader of you blog before and have returned after a long time. Great to see the continuity in ur blogging.

Thanks for pandora and last.fm. I was not aware of those before. They were simply amazing.

[Anand]

I think this is the age where youngster create their own personalised videos, post it on youtube and the post the link on facebook wall to woo!
Btw I discovered pink floyd an entirely different way but they are still close to my heart. infact I used it as inspiration form my prevoius post. I now need to go to bed, have an exam tomorrow!!

[Natasja]

Abishek: you're more than welcome!

Anand: :-) hope the exam went well.