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A & A✨ 💐

The Marías y Más (💐 edition)

Dear A,

This is where my nerd tendencies meet your museum curator tendencies, and (obviously) I think that's a great combination.

This playlist is beautiful! Most of the songs are warm, hazy, a little wistful, and sway-y. I intentionally sorted them into a few scenes—thinking about what the vibes might be if we were cooking dinner and dancing around the living room. The key and tempo of a song are huge mood-shapers: fast songs feel jumpy, slow songs feel sway-y, minor keys feel more wistful, major keys brighter. When songs share the same key or a similar tempo, they tend to flow well into each other.

1. Initial nerves Gentle and sway-y, like we're fumbling around finding the cutting board and clinking wine glasses. Starts around "Sweet Boy."
2. Finding our rhythm Now we're moving around, bumping into each other in the kitchen, maybe I've already spilled something on myself. Starts around "Hush."
3. Dancing in the living room Things are in the oven, the wine is hitting, dinner's almost ready, and we're just being silly. Starts around "Tired."
4. Popcorn on the couch Settling back in, winding-down, someone says they need to get an early night because they have to wake up early tomorrow. Starts around "Ache."

A small example from Spotify's Mix view: these two are both 8A and 115 BPM, so the Auto mixer handles the transition beautifully. (Tap Auto to change any transition.)

P.S. — the cover is a photo I took in Chamonix, France. The whole town was full of elite runners because the UTMB (Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc) had just wrapped up, so it felt like you.

I thought it felt right for you.

Version two

The first version of this was a bit of a love letter — a playlist I sorted for you by hand, one song easing into the next.

Version two is more an act of service. I turned that hand-sorting into a small tool of your own. Connect your Spotify, save a copy of any playlist so you never lose it, and re-sort it however you like — by artist, by when you added each song, or into a set that flows by tempo and key, the way this one does.