- This is the most unnecessary way to talk to someone else.
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- (FBE) So today we're going to show you a trend
that is a specific way of sending messages to significant others.
- What? DMs? Is it DMs?
- This has nothing to do with calling your boyfriend or girlfriend "bae,"
right, because that's the dumbest word in the world.
- I have no idea and I have a feeling I'm going to feel really old.
This is going to be one of those where I'm going to feel
really old after this shoot.
So thanks again for this, guys.
- "So"-- oh, the Spotify lists?
Okay, yeah, I have seen some of those.
- Oh, I know what it is!
It's the playlist thing, the Spotify playlist.
- What?
"So my sister's gone on a couple dates with a guy named Wyatt,
but she likes someone else, so she made him a Spotify playlist and..."
- "Do you"-- what is it-- "Still want to..."
- "...kiss me because I am kinda lovin' someone else."
- "But we can still be friends."
That's pretty good.
- "We can still be f--" Ah, that took a dark turn.
"But we can still be friends." (chuckling)
- This is the most unnecessary way to talk to someone else.
- What she said wasn't very cute. That wasn't very nice.
But I think it's sweet!
You put in a lot of time and effort.
- That's just mean. That's not right!
You should have just called
and you could have just had lunch, but, you know, I'm old school.
Excuse me.
- To be like, "Hey, guess what?
Our relationship's over. Here's a playlist."
Like, [bleep] you, man!
- (FBE) So there was a reply.
- (spitefully) "I made her one back, by the way."
(laughing) "Shut the [bleep] up."
- "Shut the [bleep] up."
(laughing breathlessly) Yeah, that's...
that's kind of expected.
- I don't blame him!
Go, Wyatt!
- That means both parties have a sense of humor at least.
It kind of softens the blow for an otherwise
kind of sucky conversation.
- Breaking up with someone via text, that used to be cold.
This is ice!
If someone did this to me, gosh, I don't know what I would do.
- "I told my crush I liked them through a Spotify playlist."
- There's a song called "I"? Wow.
"I kinda like you and I wanted to tell you.
You might not..."
- "...feel the same and that's okay, but I thought you should know."
- Oh god! It keeps going.
"If you don't feel it, I still want to be friends."
- "I am corny." What? (giggling)
That's a long one.
- People have a lot of time on their hands.
- This is too much!
This would get old for me real quick.
- I'm going to be blunt. It seems a little stupid.
They make you a mix tape for someone, I like that
because it's like, okay, you remind me of this song
or we spent a moment together and this song reminded me of you.
This is just a bunch of [bleep] words!
- "Do you mind having sex with me, perhaps ♪ birthday sex ♪ ?
[Bleep] it."
- "Let's get married." Oh geeze.
That escalated fast.
- "Matter of fact, just for now, send nudes."
(laughing)
And the crazy part is somebody might think that's really clever.
- Our generation, man.
This is a really high class guy.
- So that's just like another form of creepy text.
That's all that is.
- I like the creativity.
I don't know if I'd write this exact one,
but I'd be more on the trolling side of this
if I was going to make someone a Spotify playlist.
- "I created a playlist for my crush." (laughing)
"Send nudes!"
That one, I like.
That was just straight to the point.
- "Send"-- wow. (giggling)
"Send nudes," huh? Just get right to the point.
- Boo, don't send nudes.
- I bet there's a million playlists on Spotify right now
that just have those two songs right there.
- "My crush answered: Hey, idiot!
Shut up. You're not funny."
- Nice. (giggling)
- They have the Black Eyed Peas, so this playlist is winning.
- If that's your crush and you're trying to get nudes like that,
it's like, man, you're just desensitized to everything.
They just want to see some nudes and it's just like, no, that's wack.
- That's funny. I love this trend!
I think it's so... I don't know, it's so creative.
It's just like, let's take texting to a whole new level.
- "I told my dad what I wanted for breakfast this morning
using a Spotify playlist." (laughing)
- "I would like bacon and eggs, sunny side up, served hot,
alongside toasted..."
- "...white bread and dat tasty as..." (cracking up)
"...tasty as [bleep] orange juice and..."
- "...put it on some kinda fancy fine china plate.
Cheers."
- It's funny. It's just dumb.
- That's kind of cool, man.
You know what? I kinda like it now.
Man, it got me, man.
- I didn't even know there were so many songs you could use
just for a breakfast order.
That's pretty clever.
But... I like how it ends on the fine china.
It's just-- it's a nice touch.
- My dad wouldn't get it.
He'd listen to the playlist and he'd be like, "What?
I don't know what you want for breakfast still."
The more creative it gets, the better I like this trend.
- "I made a Spotify playlist for my crush."
- "Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight
that if you stuck"-- what? (chuckling)
- "...a lump of coal up his ass in two weeks..."
- "...you'd have a diamond!"
- Ferris Bueller?
Is that a line from the movie?
Oh, it is? Okay.
- That was a quote on that movie?
I don't remember that at all, but wow, okay.
If it came from that movie then... (applause)
- That's '80s... Bueller! (giggling)
See, that's clever. That's funny.
- For the crush one, I get that.
Like, you put time and effort.
Like, you know you want something to come of it.
But, like, anything else, it's like... no.
- "I confessed my feelings to my crush through a Spotify playlist."
- "Water. Earth. Air. Long ago the four nations lived--"
[Bleep] Avatar. That's awesome.
- "Water. Earth. Fire. Air.
(excitedly) Long ago, the four nations lived in harmony."
Aah! "Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked."
Oh my god! This speaks to me.
- "Only the Avatar, master of all four elements,
could stop them but..."
- "...when the world needed him most, he vanished.
A hundred years passed and..."
- (FBE) And that's it. - That's it?!
But what about "My brother Sokka and I
discovered him in the iceberg"?
Come on, man! I freaking love The Avatar
and The Legend of Korra.
I could go on and on about this.
- That one got a lot of retweets. I'm happy about that one.
That one, I think, is the best.
- It's annoying to me.
Like, if somebody sent that to me the first time,
it would be funny.
Second time, it's like, stop.
- If you like writing in a sentence to someone,
I think it's funny, but when you're just quoting a song,
you're just copying something that's already made
and putting it in a Spotify playlist.
Like, that's not that funny.
- "I told my crush I liked him through an Apple music playlist."
- Mixing it up!
- "According to all known laws of aviation,
there is no way a..."
- "...a honey bee should be able to fly."
No!
The Bee Movie! Hell yeah! Bring it back.
- "Its wings are too small to get its..."
- "...fat, little body off the ground.
The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care..."
- "...what humans think is impossible."
- I have no idea. What is this?
- So now we bring the Bee Movie back into this.
Of course. (giggling)
Why would I think anything otherwise?
- You just mixed my favorite meme of all times
with this current meme, so obviously, this meme just got
ten times better.
- "Made a playlist for people making Spotify playlists."
"Stop please."
Yes.
- "Stop please." (laughing)
Tell us how you really feel.
- There's always got to be one.
Relax, Kate! Relax. Have some fun.
- It's crazy to me that there's so many people doing this
and I had no idea.
I'm so out of the loop.
- Some of it is really, really clever.
Some of it, I really, really like.
Some of it is just dumb and boring and cliche.
- Making a playlist is serious business.
Like, you can say a lot in a couple songs.
That's just one sentence.
If the songs have meaning, they say so much more.
- (FBE) So this trend seems to have taken off,
with the first one we showed you of the couple breaking up via Spotify,
so what do you think of using this as a way to break up with someone?
- Oh, I think it's classless.
You know, you should really talk to someone.
- It's to be expected from the type of person
who would do that.
- It's absolutely shitty.
You have the responsibility of starting a relationship,
beginning a relationship with somebody.
Now a part of that responsibility is if it doesn't go well,
you have to own up to it.
You get that pit in your stomach,
and you just have to confront them.
- If you're going to break up with someone,
you should always do it in person, face-to-face.
But... if you're gonna do it via text, at least this way is funny.
- (FBE) So, finally, do you think that you are going to start communicating
to people through Spotify playlists? - Hell no!
- No! (laughing)
I've been married for 24 years.
You know, what am I going to do?
Break up with him over Spotify?
He wouldn't even know where to find it!
- I hardly even use Spotify, and when I do,
it's a playlist that are songs I actually want to hear,
not stupid titles that make a random line for some reason,
so, no, (laughing) probably not.
- I don't think I'm going to do that.
I don't think I'm giving into this trend,
but I will definitely read the ones that go viral.
- Not even a little.
I'm going to laugh at this for a month and then forget about it forever.
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