The great playlist debate

Jake came over to study and somehow we ended up in a forty-minute discussion about music organization. He has this elaborate system on his iPod where everything is sorted by mood and activity level, which sounds logical until you realize he has seventeen different categories for “driving music” alone.

The great playlist debate

I made the mistake of asking why Dashboard Confessional was filed under both “Angry” and “Nostalgic” and got a ten-minute explanation involving something called “emotional complexity mapping.” Meanwhile my iPod is literally just “Good Songs” and “Songs I Skip But Keep Anyway.” Apparently this makes me a musical barbarian.

Defending my Britney Spears collection. No shame.

He’s currently trying to reorganize my entire library while I defend my right to have three different Britney albums. Some battles are worth fighting, and this is definitely one of them. Carmen’s going to die laughing when I tell her about this tomorrow.

Update: He just discovered I have the entire Twilight soundtrack and his face went through about five different expressions. This is better than cable TV.