--- title: Breakup Song Playlist Goes Viral description: A resourceful girl made a Spotify playlist to tell the guy she was dating that she just wasn't that into him. canonical: https://time.com/4732898/girl-breakup-song-playlist/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-10T16:10:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:42:40.297Z og:title: Girl Makes Spotify Playlist to Tell Boy She's Not Interested og:description: That's one way to do it og:url: https://time.com/4732898/girl-breakup-song-playlist/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Girl Makes Spotify Playlist to Tell Boy She's Not Interested twitter:description: That's one way to do it twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Resourceful Girl Broke Up With a Guy With a Spotify Playlist > Sponsored content. 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According to [_Buzzfeed_](https://www.buzzfeed.com/remysmidt/because-i-am-kinda-lovin-someone-else?utm%5Fterm=.tsrMOyR9o#.trq43ZLXB), 19-year-old Kirsten Titus was dating 20-year-old Wyatt Hall, a fellow Brigham Young University student, until she was no longer interested in Hall romantically. To let him know that she just wasn’t that into him, she crafted a playlist titled “To: Wyatt” with a selection of song titles that eventually read “Do you still want kiss me because I am kinda lovin’ someone else but we can still be friends.” The playlist went viral after Titus’s little sister Erika saw the playlist on their shared Spotify account and tweeted out the playlist to the world. > [](https://twitter.com/errikkxa/status/849349212005421056) Wyatt, for his part, responded with a playlist of his own, though considerably shorter. > [](https://twitter.com/wyman778/status/849685387052171266) Ah, the perils of young love in [the age of music streaming services](http://time.com/4533923/amazon-music-unlimited-spotify/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4732898/girl-breakup-song-playlist/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4732898/girl-breakup-song-playlist/"},"headline":"Resourceful Girl Broke Up With a Guy With a Spotify Playlist","datePublished":"2017-04-10T16:10:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:42:40.297Z","description":"That's one way to do it","url":"https://time.com/4732898/girl-breakup-song-playlist/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","viral","Spotify","Bizarre","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4732898/girl-breakup-song-playlist/","name":"Resourceful Girl Broke Up With a Guy With a Spotify Playlist"}}]}] ```