You may have seen those posts online (usually on Twitter) about which album you can save. Typically they are all part of the same genre. Each post will use four album covers and you get to pick which one you’ll “save” (referring to which one is your favourite).

You can only save one pic.twitter.com/K2U9wfkKic

— Spiritbox (@spiritboxband) February 3, 2023

The ones I have seen so far are mostly for metalcore and post-hardcore. It makes a lot of sense for these fandoms since the music is more focused on albums than singles. Since albums can sometimes contain songs you hate, you’re left with a choice between an album that has your favourite song or the one with three from your top five.

There are a few flaws in these. For one, people will just pick the one for their favourite artist. Even if one has more songs they like, they need to pick the one their favourite artist has made. Next, at least from my experience, there are always two albums that wouldn’t be worth saving. Even if the albums weren’t bad, they might not be ones that people would want to save. While part of the process is about sacrificing an album, should they all be albums where people:s brains would explode if someone can only choose one? Whenever I did a few of these, I felt like it was too easy to pick which ones I would ditch right away. Another point from this is that the number of arguments isn’t at the level you would expect them to be. Sure, people will debate or jokingly attack others, but violent outrage doesn’t seem to exist.

You might have that album that you would save no matter what the circumstance is. You might also have that album you would leave in a ditch. No matter what, you will always have something you enjoy from the one that you saved from whatever is affecting the other three.