This article was originally published on CNN.
A night spent watching music videos is a most sacred ritual.
It begins, for me and my loved ones, when the night feels like it’s ending. It’s late, we’re drowsy and conversation is dwindling. Someone turns on YouTube and starts playing the music video to a song they love.
We perk up. Chappell Roan’s “My Kink is Karma” kicks us off. Inspired, my friend requests a video of Kelly Clarkson covering the same song. Then I request a Kelly Clarkson single that appeared in “The Princess Diaries 2.” And down the rabbit hole we go, spending hours singing and dancing along to music videos we haven’t seen in years. The night ends somewhere around Ludacris’ “Pimpin’ All Over the World.”
