Music video nights are the pinnacle of friendship
CNN
Music video marathons can be the ultimate bonding activity, inspiring friends to share memories and get to know each other better.
A night spent watching music videos is a most sacred ritual. It begins, for me and my loved ones, when the night feels like it’s ending. It’s late, we’re drowsy and conversation is dwindling. Someone turns on YouTube and starts playing the music video to a song they love. We perk up. Chappell Roan’s “My Kink is Karma” kicks us off. Inspired, my friend requests a video of Kelly Clarkson covering the same song. Then I request a Kelly Clarkson single that appeared in “The Princess Diaries 2.” And down the rabbit hole we go, spending hours singing and dancing along to music videos we haven’t seen in years. The night ends somewhere around Ludacris’ “Pimpin’ All Over the World.” Stumbling into a music video marathon with friends is the ultimate bonding activity: It’s a nostalgia trip. A musical catharsis. A pop culture crash course. A “gay pastime.” And, thank goodness, mostly free! But for its simple charms, it can provoke some remarkably deep revelations — exchanging memories surrounding the videos is how we learn each other’s lore. “You’re saying something about your inner life, your story,” said Clay Routledge, a psychologist who studies nostalgia at the Archbridge Institute think tank. “You don’t normally think that watching music videos might do that.”
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