By Laura Medina
The founder
https://vinyllyapp.com/
For all you Baby Boomers and Gen-Xers, remember how you nervously attempt up your crush, by simply asking, "What your favorite music?" "What's your favorite band?"
Something so simple can drive so deep in how musical preference can define a person.
Fast forward to Valentine's 2021, Vinylly takes that simple concept then drive it deeper.
Using music preferences and Spotify data, Vinylly matches on compatiblity.
According to Vinylly's blog,..
"In order to understand how music compatibility works, we need to first understand how music impacts our own brains. Dr. Daniel Levitin, a cognitive psychologist, writer, neuroscientist, record producer, and musician, is an expert on music’s effects on the brain. “We did some experiments in my laboratory that show that listening to music changes your brain chemistry. And we know that people use music the way they use drugs,” Dr. Levitin said in an NPR recording.
Levitin goes on to talk about how we choose different music for different activities.
“When it comes to sharing interests such as music, art, and general entertainment, compatibility in these areas can be essential for some people and fairly irrelevant for others. If a certain type of music is an essential part of a person’s life, that person may tend to gravitate toward a partner who understands and shares that interest. On the opposite end of the continuum, if a person has little regard or great dislike for a certain interest that is deeply valued by the other partner, that disparity can be a dealbreaker,”
states Dr. Carla Marie Manly, a psychologist and author. Manly also explains that a factor in overall compatibility includes having shared interests, which can range from movies, literature, physical activities, and music.
In a Zoe Report article, Dr. Paulette Sherman, a psychologist, author, and podcast host, says that music is a great way to bond. She also says that “it’s emotional and can be a light, fun way to get to know someone in the beginning.” You can read the Zoe Report article here.
While connecting over music can be fun in the beginning, music can also be important for your compatibility as a whole.
Some level of tolerance and compromise is important in any relationship, and this is an important sign that when it comes to deeper-rooted issues, this partner may not be as understanding.
Sometimes, though, having relationships with people with different taste in music can be fun. This can expose you to new music, and you may even discover that you like a band or genre you had never expected to enjoy. And, you get to share your favorite music and why you love it. It’s all about tolerance, acceptance, and willingness to try new things.
Many dating apps today are based on superficial qualities, like swiping and matching based on appearances. Vinylly, however, allows you to connect with people on less of a surface-level, and more of a music-level. Vinylly’s algorithm allows you to match with people who have some similarities in music interests–just enough for you to find something in common, while also growing and expanding your music library. Get on out there and find a significant other you can bond over music with."
Vinylly, pairs users Spotify habits to find local connections - Vinylly invites users to press play when they discover someone to connect with.
Proving there's everything for everyone and anything for anyone, Vinylly has no intention of replacing mating and dating apps. It just unites people with something they have in common, sharing favorite musicians, bands, and music then meeting at a concert or a music set, later down the line. The founder said, that later in the year, music venues and the opportunities just to hang out will return.
Vinylly is the courting and dating of today versus the other apps that are all about the mating.
The founder developed Vinylly after watching friends and family struggle with existing dating apps that only gave way to meaningless connections. She knew immediately that she wanted to create Vinylly and that she wanted it to leverage music data with a really great user experience.
In today's pandemic and quarantine, Vinylly adapted quickly. Vinylly provides access in the chat function to suggest live-streaming concerts for its users to attend as well as live concerts when they return. So, connected users have a variety of custom-tailored, music-inspired date ideas to stream — adding safe and socially distant options to the current dating scene.
Not only are users connecting thru mutual musical preferences, through enjoying each other's company, this might lead to deeper conversations and more meaningful connections and relationships.
Very inclusive and not superficial.
Using Vinylly as a new way courting, getting to know one another before deep diving without looking.
Before COVID-19, pre-pandemic, and pre-quarantine, with Millennials being so focus on careers to pay off college loans, they forgot how to actually date, can't imagine courting then went straight to the mating.
Vinylly is the 21st century of courting and real dating, finding common ground, learning how to socialize, enjoy each others' company then find that magical compatibility.
Once you built your real relationship on compatibility, through music, thanks to Vinylly's help, Annmarie Kelly says that any relationship can be a "Five-Year Marriage," whether it be on paper or not, because all relationships go through changes. It's up to you all to adapt, accept, and change or realize you all no longer have anything in common then it's more gracious to depart to some others who are more compatible to who you are right now.
Annemarie Kelly's "The Five-Year Marriage, Shifting the Marriage Paradigm," proves you all unknowingly were and are in a five-year marriage because it's all about relationship. Yes, "marriage" is a relationship and you all just don't know it.
Why "The Five-Year Marriage"? Five years is long to experience and witness changes, accidents, moves, firings, promotions, and illness. Five years is long enough for anyone to change. Annemarie says it is up to you all to liking those transitions or not liking them at all. That five years is a mile marker or milestone. Rather than be trapped in a destructive, abusive marriage or be flaky in lesser years. Five years also give each one of you all to really to know yourself and each other. Have you ever wondered why your relationship, sans the marriage paper, naturally peters out by the fifth or sixth year? You're unknowingly in a "Five-Year Marriage."
"The Five-Year Marriage" is all about the average lifespan of any relationship.
If you all manage to weather the storms, when shit happens the fan, survive accidents and illnesses and know that drama means change, then true congratulations, you all made it and there's nothing wrong with renewal. Whether it's finally to put it on paper or renew your marriage vows, cheers your relationship survives for the stronger.
