The Art of the Musical Dedication: Why We Give Away Our Favorite Songs
There is a distinct, breathless kind of magic that happens when someone looks at you and says, “This song made me think of you.”
Long before playlists could be shared across continents with a tap of a screen, and way back before custom mixtape cassettes were being meticulously timed with a pencil in hand, humans have used music as a proxy language. When our own vocabulary falls short—whether we are trying to confess a crush, apologize for a clumsy argument, or capture the bittersweet weight of a friendship changing shape—we borrow someone else’s lyrics. We dedicate a song.
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