"And if I want to find the song 'Landslide' by Fleetwood Mac I have to remember that I bought it for someone in the fall of 1983 pile, but didn't give it to them for personal reasons." ~ High Fidelity
Sitting by the radio, finger poised over the "REC" button with a growing bitterness for DJs that don't announce the song before they play it has a special spot in the annals of mating rutuals before the invention of the compact discs, MP3s, and playlists. Even after the invention of these epic game-changers, the mixtape maintained its lofty position amongst the courtship rituals of the youth. Only now, instead of sitting around the stereo waiting and wishing for the next song on their mixtape to blare across the airwaves, eager young Romeos and Juliets can simply point, click, download, and send. It doesn't matter if the mixtape is recorded on an actual "tape", it's the organization of the tracks that really bring about that "mixtape madness".Courtship today can be as simple as "swipe right" and "how you doin'?" but one intrepid man in Alabama has decided to re-visit the ancient tradition of the mixtape (on actual cassette) with the hope to win his wife back. However, his mixtape was so explosively romantic as to require the bomb squad to give it a first listen. The reason the authorities were called in to investigate this particular mixtape mix-up was almost certainly due to the fact that he used 1980s technology (the cassette) to show his 2010s love (blurred lines-style).
*Part 2 will be an actual mixtape, the form of which is as yet to be determined.
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