Dan Mitchell

If you’ve ever found yourself humming a song you don’t even like, congratulations — you’ve been caught in an earworm, a neurological feedback loop where melody, memory, and rhythm conspire to hijack your attention. The phenomenon is so universal it…

Why that hook? Why that beat? Why that lyric you can’t get out of your head no matter how hard you try? In a world ruled by the scroll and the skip, musical stickiness is a survival mechanism — and…

How brevity became the ultimate clickbait for your ears. One word.Four minutes.Billions of streams. In the age of infinite scroll, where attention is the rarest currency, musicians have quietly rediscovered an old truth: fewer letters, bigger impact. This isn’t just…

Today’s parents aren’t queuing up lullabies. They’re streaming lofi chillhop, indie electronica, and Burial. Yes — that Burial. Welcome to Parenting by Playlist, where the soundtrack of childhood is curated, moodboarded, and vibe-optimized by the same people who once made…

Forget the choreographed perfection and viral fan cams — in the underground of Korea’s digital backstreets, a quieter, scrappier sound is playing through earbuds. And it’s not K-pop. Beneath the global spectacle of K-pop’s glitz lies an entire generation of…

The Rise of Musical Anti-Aesthetic There’s a new sound in your feed and it’s wrong in all the right ways. Off-key vocals, broken beats, awkward lyrics delivered with unflinching sincerity. What once would’ve been laughed off the stage is now…

“A soundtrack for breaking down, beautifully, where everyone can see.” It’s not always in the privacy of your bedroom.Sometimes the tears come in a stairwell. On a train. In the frozen aisle at 7-Eleven.Crying in public is a strange kind…

You put them on to tune out the noise. But what if you’re also tuning out the people? The Rise of the Private Sound Bubble Once a quirky accessory for audiophiles, headphones have become our default social armor. In cafés,…