i was 15 when i discovered musical consciousness. Before i would just listen to the charts and not really feel the need to use music as a vessel of self expression. I was 15 when i got spotify. I remember the music being: George Ezra, The Beatles, The Blues Brothers, Avicii, and then a lot of generic pop. When i turned 16, i remember finding Green Day and The Rolling Stones for the first time. i think they were the only 2 bands i listened to for the entire year of 2016. Then i found a band called "The Frights" in late 2016, through Billie Joe's son's band "SWMRS". The frights have led me to where i am now
I think it's really cool seeing how my music has changed through the years. I think music dictates a person more than their clothes and most other interests. My spotify liked songs is my journey from a boy to a man, and i think that's pretty neat
6d ago
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first thing that comes to mind that feels of the time is all the vitamin string quartet covers I was obsessed with lolololol I should get back into those!!
Also loved Hozier, Laura Gibson (LOVED her—listened to skin, warming skin on repeat), of mice and men, mumford and sons, band of horses, Lorde, the black keys, FOB, Panic!, All Time Low, a little 21 pilots, a little MCR, Halsey, and the Beatles (especially early in high school and especially the songs featured in across the universe (2007) but I also loved paperback writer for some reason).
Very tail end of my senior year I got more into broadway and was obsessed with everything from Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (which was SNUBBED for the Tony by dear evan Hansen 🤮)
Didn’t do a lot of country, was mostly into country in elementary and middle school, then got back into it after graduating college, both from nostalgia and from a desire to preserve that part of me when I decided to move to the east coast.
The first ones I mentioned were from streaming(not a lot since unlimited data wasn’t a thing for me at the time and my parents also weren’t paying for Spotify for me so the ads were annoying), my iTunes library, YouTube to mp3 files I put on my phone back when it was easier to do that, and CDs. But I also liked the hard rock and classic rock stations on the radio for my drives to and from school.
Spotify also tells me I liked death cab for cutie and needtobreathe more than I remembered lol
6d ago
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I used to listen to anime openings and endings which got me into J-pop and J-rock, then I somehow got to ichika nito which lead me to, and I still remember that evening when I first listened to falkor by covet in 2019. Life changing moment fr. I listened to it on loop for MONTHS! I also fell into the rabbit hole of math rock with bands like chon, polyphia and shit. I really got into music atp and came across Adam Neely on youtube. It was a video about "bussing". That's where I discovered jazz. Adam's band, the sungazers is an experimental jazz band so I got into that. I was obsessed with their song threshold. Since then I've been listening to lots of other stuff.
A big part of my personality in HS was about listening to bands and music that no one else around me had ever even heard of lol.
6d ago
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freshman year was hot off the coat tails of my emo/scene years. somehow transitioned from that to mostly bachata and reggaeton. lots of joey bada$$ / pro era new york rap as well. and i loved lana del rey.
sophomore year was a blur i couldn’t tell you. probably the same with a bit more rap. loved me some lorde tho. i think i also stumbled upon genesis by grimes around this time.
junior year i discovered fka twigs and it changed me. it was a lot of her and childish gambino. anime soundtracks and j-rock too. lots of nujabes bc i had just watched samurai champloo. ultraviolence came out that year. it was crazy.
senior year was a lot. i got back into kpop + k r&b for a bit (had a brief stint in middle school). i was really into mac demarco and loved kali uchis down. i also discovered kilo kish this year. i graduated in the infancy of the flower boy peach sunflower era so that should inform you on what my tastes were morphing into.
i also have awful memory in general but looking back makes me realize i truly tell time through music. that’s the bulk of what i can remember from my teen years.
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