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By Script Writers

April 17, 2025

Tip line: How to get out of a Music Slump

You know the feeling. You open up your music app and you just stare. Nothing sounds good, everything is bland. What even is music anymore? So what do you do, how do you love music again?

It may seem counterintuitive but the surest way to crave music again is to stop listening to it entirely. I bet your music sounds really good after working out with only the sweet sounds of grunting and the BWC country station to entertain you. 

Speaking of the radio: It’s a great way to discover new music. The North 103.3 is a Duluth radio station that has programming 24 hours a day. Tune in at any given time and you might hear jazz, ska, indie pop, hard rock, or eight-minute meandering psychedelic numbers. What you hear might not be for you, but it’ll almost certainly be something new. If you don’t have a radio (who does?) you can listen to their live programming from their website. 

Still searching for new sounds? Try actually listening to albums, front to back, top to bottom. Albums are coherent pieces of art, and it’s impossible to take in the whole story if you only hear a couple of songs. Why make a playlist yourself when the artist already made one for you? 

Except that playlists are a lot of fun. You’re probably just sick of yours. A great way to overcome that is to add one song you’ve never heard before to a playlist each day. Do it for a week, a month, a year, a decade—the timeline doesn’t matter; just commit. 

It’s not music that’s the problem, it’s you! You’re the only person who can drag yourself, song-by-song, out of this slump. By the end of it, you’ll have a very long playlist and a lot of cool jams.

Happy listening,

The Script. 

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