Lets be honest: road rage can get the best of us.
I find this to be especially true when navigating Florida’s tourist-filled highways. As a college student who often commutes from Gainesville to the Space Coast, my numerous solo road trips would be dreadful without Spotify premium. According to a HealthDay article, stress on the road can be eased by listening to music or audio books.
Driving a long distance can be peaceful with the right background noise, which is why I created a playlist full of tranquil tunes with genres ranging from alternative to “indie” to singer/songwriter.
When thinking of a title for said playlist, I wanted to stay away from generic names such as “road trip jams” or “life is a highway.” I finally thought of a creative pun that only I would understand unless explained. I decided on “beep boop bop.” Okay. Hear me out.
The phrase itself comes from the noise a robot makes. I correlated the “beep” with the sound a car makes. I also like to call my favorite songs “bops.” The middle word tied everything together. I don’t think there’s anything a person could directly connect to “boop.” Hopefully this explanation makes sense, and the method to my madness is made apparent.
Some of the songs from my almost three-and-a-half-hour-long playlist, which I listed below, are ones I recently discovered while stumbling upon a wedding videographer’s Instagram. Thanks to Jake Weisler’s flawless taste in music, my inner hopeless romantic can’t stop playing these “bops” on repeat.
Melodies & Mixtapes 