We need a word that expresses the instances where a song randomly playing on your personal MP3 device is strangely and coincidentally appropriate to the situation you are currently in. For instance, one of my first days at work here at the Romance Factory, I walked up the front steps to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs crooning: "There is no modern romance." Or a couple of weeks ago, on one of the first noticeably crisp and cool fall days, I arrived to Travis' "Luv", which contains the elegant lyrics:
The summer didn't bother getting up this morning
So all the trees forgot to wake
Dropping all their leaves on the ground below them.
And today I rolled in to The Darkness declaring: "I believe in a thing called love!" Sure, a disproportionately large number of songs are about love, so I have a higher-than-average chance of encountering such world/music alignments, but I'd still like a word for it.
I suggest:
SERENDiPODIPITY : The phenomenon of a random but agreeable song played by a personal music device that coincides with the listener's current mood and/or situation.
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Je l'adore!
-podipity is my favourite part!
(...and then my word verification was "ipity!" - is there a word for that?)
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