"send me a song": getting music recommendations anonymously

"send me a song" is one of the most common things people ask in a story, and it usually goes one of two ways. Nobody answers, because answering means sliding into your DMs with an opinion about your taste. Or a lot of people answer, and now you have forty conversations to keep up with.

The question is fine. The problem is the answer box.

why anonymous works for this

Anonymous question apps took off for a reason: people say more when their name is not attached. For songs that matters twice over. Recommending something is a small risk — you are telling someone what you think they will like — and taking the name off is what makes people take it.

It also changes what you get. Without a name on it, a song is judged as a song rather than as a message from someone.

what a good answer box looks like

• One song, not a message. A search box, not a text field. You get a track, not a paragraph.
• One a day per person. Enough that anyone can answer, not so many that one person can fill your inbox.
• You decide what happens to it. A song waits until you look at it. Keep it or let it go; nothing appears anywhere without you.
• No replies. If the sender cannot be written back to, there is nothing to keep up with.

how to ask

Post the question as a story with a link sticker on it, and put the link in your bio so it keeps working after the story is gone. Say exactly what you want — "your 3am song", "one you'd put on in the car" — because a specific question gets better answers than "send me music".

That is how sixseven works. Your page asks your question, with a search box and the artists you are into, and anyone who opens it can send you one song a day. They never have to make an account, and you never find out who sent what.