I was talking to some people recently about how they used to make mixtapes for friends, which they used to personalize by recording movie quotes or little comedy skits or just personal messages between the songs. And my immediate thought was how much easier you can do all that stuff today now that we can find and make recordings digitally… and then I realized that I was dead wrong, and it's actually harder to make something like that today.
In a world where the best music streaming services are king, we have so much less flexibility in what we do with music. You can make a playlist and share it with someone (as long as they have the same service as you!), but you can't do many interesting things with that playlist.
