Current Music Vibes December 2025
Music is meditation. If a song makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up and, if after hear it my skin is covered in goosebumps, I will replay that song as many times as I need to soothe whatever it is in me.
I started making a new playlist for my current year of life about six years ago. While I don't do New Year's Resolutions, I have been setting my intentions for the upcoming year. Over the last four years, I've been clearing out my entertainment buckets each year by deleting my profiles on each streaming platform I still use. For 2026 my family did not renew our family Spotify plan when it expired. We switched to Tidal, which is owned by Block. I know there are no perfect platforms and no ethical billionaires. We are using Tidal for now while we work to re/build our analog music collection. This emptying of the old to make way to the new has become a ritual I enjoy. It's intentional. I do it when and only when it feels right; natural. I don't set a deadline and I don't assign guilt to not doing it.
First published on My Mercurial Nature.