From: Veronica to Morgan Willis

Date: 4 January 2022

Message:

Hi Morgan, I feel compelled to write to you and tell you how your music has enriched my life. I’ve always been a synthwave fan ever since I was a baby in the 80s. My passion for the genre was reignited after buying the complete series of Miami Vice on a whim at a hardware store about a year ago. I then introduced the show to a man I had just begun dating and over the course of the last year we fell in love with each other, the show, and synthwave music. We also discovered our mutual love of tennis and spent hours upon hours on the tennis court this summer and fall, listening to our favorite synthwave mixes on our Bluetooth speaker.

When we discovered Miami Calling, it was like we found the soundtrack to our happiness and love for each other. It was the perfect music to play tennis to—the steady, rhythmic, yet mellow beats made our swings better! Since my boyfriend and I are both single parents who are budget conscious, we play at the local high school tennis courts because they are nice and better yet—free. Towards the end of the season, a man we saw playing there regularly too came up to us and said “I’ve really enjoyed your music. It’s something I look forward to when I’m here!”

This summer we were inspired to go on a tennis vacation for a weekend to a local lake town nearby called Saugatuck, Michigan. We brought the speaker and played in a very cool public tennis court located downtown. We played all day, listening to Miami Calling, with lots of passersby saying “this is awesome tennis music! Who is this?” Of course we told them!

I live in South Bend, Indiana which is far away from you I’m sure. But I think it would be rad if maybe we can be pen pals. Thank you for being you and sharing your gift of music with others. It has truly impacted my life in such a positive way. Veronica

THEN HE WROTE BACK!!

From: Morgan to Veronica

Date: 14 January 2022

Message:

Hi Veronica,

sorry for the delay.  

your message touched me, I am very happy that my music can accompany you,.

  thank you so much that’s why I make music, your message is a wonderful reward <3

Thank you 

I was so stoked he wrote back!! I spent some time carefully crafting my next response. It had to be perfect.

From: Veronica to Morgan

Date: 8 February 2022

Message:

Hi Morgan,

I wanted to tell you I was so excited to receive your message. I’ve been meaning to write back sooner, but then life happened and I’m just now getting to it. I wanted to ask you: how did you get into synthwave? It seems like your earlier work is more of the House genre, but then there was a switch to synthwave somewhere around Hyperion. What made you switch? I wonder if there’s an interesting story there.

My boyfriend and I are getting ready for tennis season in the spring and are putting together our playlists. Any recommendations? 

Veronica

I am still waiting on those recommendations. My heart is a little broken I got ghosted. But according to the kids, I am besties with a French DJ. In the meantime, you all can enjoy the soundtrack to our love story: The Saugatuck playlist.