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.
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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
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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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I was blessed to come of age at a time in which both physical media and streaming were prevalent. One of my friends/neighbors got sent away to a boarding school run by monks in alaska and gave me his crate of CD‘s for safekeeping. this led to a lot of classic hipster /mu albums like in the aeroplane over the sea, oracular spectacular, hospice, gorillaz/demon days/plastic beach (i got rise of the ogre from the library and asked my mom what cunt meant bc it was in the book), the suburbs, the reminder, and bands like TMBG, james blake, eels, sleighbells, etc. I also was one of the only people in my school who loved lana del ray, even after her SNL performance. I had a good friend who i bonded with over born to die and after her death, i further deepened my relationship with lana’s music. She also really liked WHY? and alopecia was a big grief album for me.
I also listened to a lot of rap like the first odd future album, XXX, down from the 36 chambers, ex military (found takyon on youtube and it changed something in me) and most of all good kid MAAD city which i had on CD and blasted in the minivan on the drive to school daily.
The most cringe aspects were my deep love of ska punk and folk punk like defiance ohio, AJJ, reel big fish, but especially streetlight manifesto, who I quoted in my senior yearbook. I don’t listen to ska anymore so that’s why I consider it cringe, it’s so far from who I am now, but if i hear a streetlight song i’ll still know all the words.
Mix CD’s also had a huge impact on my music taste. The cool older hipster kids (these are all people who were unimaginably tumblr famous, especially being from a small town) who got together and created the Royal Mixtape Society. It only happened once, but we all created a mix CD and got a copy of everyone else’s in return. This lead to a lot of incredible discoveries, most of all the “Butts“ mixtape which has been the soundtrack to core memories of me and my best friends.
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It's not in our hands sometimes but it's not cool to be surrounded by people who don't take anything seriously
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Y'all ever write a word and suddenly it looks wrong? Like, the word just looks unusual. Then you cross it out and write it again but it's still the same cause the spelling is right but it looks so wrong! And so you repeat, but it remains the same and at that point you're agitated! What the actual fuck is wrong with me!
And so you just ignore it and continue writing but it still bothers you. You look in the dictionary and the spelling is still the same and the word still looks wrong and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.
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It happens often that I watch a movie or read a book that I don't quite understand. It is only as I move on in life, i understand them. It's not just with things I don't understand but everything else as well.
I find myself interpreting the same sentence differently at different points in my life and i think it's absolutely beautiful.
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