Instagram Introduces MySpace-Style Option to Add Music to Profile

For those who aren’t old enough to remember, MySpace was a trip. Back in the early days of social media, the online space where everyone was friends with Tom added a lot of weird features you could use to customize your profile, including forcing you to choose which of your friends were your favorite and letting you add glitchy banners and graphics that would take forever to load.

But one of the coolest ideas was the option to make a song play on your profile, which would send anyone visiting your profile scrambling for the volume control. Sure, MySpace fell out of popularity as Facebook became the new standard but, somehow, it inexplicably still exists today. I imagine that office has one of those boards up that says “It has been ___ days since an employee openly wept at their desk.” It’s always set to zero.

Well, that music feature is back now on popular social media site Instagram. As of yesterday, you can add a 30-second clip of any song in their library to your page. You already had the option of adding songs to individual posts, and now you can just have one that plays on your regular profile. Instagram took to their own Threads page to make the announcement yesterday.

“We’re excited to announced that you can now add a song to your profile, giving you more ways to express yourself through music. Your profile song selection will live on your profile until you swap out the song.”

You can go to the “Edit Profile” button on your profile and add a song. Now, whenever someone visits your profile they can tell how badass you are when it starts playing Metallica’s “Fuel” over those pictures of your camping trip in Maine. Or they can see how depressed you are as it plays “Song of the Siren” by This Mortal Coil over images of you stuffing your face with a KFC Famous Bowl. If anyone gets what that’s a reference to, I’ll be astonished.