On the New York Times podcast, Popcast, during their final episode of 2018, Joe Coscarelli explains why he sometimes gets misty-eyed listening to music. For him, it is not a particular song that brings it on, but concerts, or rather, the audience that attends them, “Seeing large groups of people enjoy something in, like, the most earnest way.” 

I am the first person to call myself sensitive, not that I think it is a bad thing, mostly it is just plain fact. I am a known crier when it comes to Google commercials, sappy movies, and 60 Minutes segments. My first cry of 2019 was to the Taylor Swift reputation Stadium Tour streaming on Netflix.

I first downloaded Spotify in Fall of 2015, I had just gone away to college and needed something to fill the silence of everyday life. Drawn to the personalized features Spotify offered, I was quick to check out the recommendations I received via "Discovery Weekly" and to follow the playlists my friends created. It's interesting that an online streaming service was able to make me feel like I was part of a community, but it did and at a time in my life when I craved connection.