SweetGirlSmirk

President Obama just got us all singing this weekend when he released his first (and second) Spotify playlist . I, of course, rejoiced that even the leader of the free world gets just how fun it is assembling your must have songs in pitch perfect order, making sure you don't tip your hand to too many guilty pleasures, and agonizing over which might actually have to be cut. It is an American pastime for the ages. It used to be mixtapes, actual cassette tapes cobbled together from staticy second hand recordings, radio requests, and if you were bougie you could record directly from another tape. Then it became the cd, which we all had to name, date, and doodle on because this was OUR HISTORY, man! it was the best of times, it was the worst of times Now, we get the Spotify playlist. My first playlist was birthed August of 2011, and completed sometime around October of 2011. Clocking it at over 3 hours of play, and including 56 songs, I obviously did not give a damn about edit