I went to art school lol. A lot of this I still stand by tho
May 28, 2025
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I started high school during the end of my kpop era transitioning into my hipster indie Tumblr era which stuck around until the end. But I was committed to the emo trinity (fall out boy, my chemical romance, panic! at the disco) too. And dabbling in post hardcore. I was a music kid so naturally I loved musical theatre. This was peak Hamilton era. I also loved going to the opera and ended up listening to a lot of operas too. By the end of high school CTRL by SZA just came out and everyone was in their r&b, hiphop and rap era. Just in time for me to get into Brockhampton for first year uni.
I wish I had a picture of my music stand from this era. I doodled all over it with band logos and lyrics.
May 26, 2025
i listened to other artists and genres too but my high school playlists were mostly these!!
May 26, 2025
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.
May 26, 2025
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i don’t subscribe but I buy single issues in bookstores when I can. Always so beautiful and not available digitally. Also lit mags! Conduit, POETRY, etc.
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Website called the smoking gun full of mug shots... gangster, celebrity, topless…the whole nine yards
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Best 80s fantasy movie of all time I swear!! Tim Curry as the lord of darkness. Baby Tom Cruise…hot sexy beautiful Mia Sara. and the soundtrack goes hardddd. I love it so much it’s perfect!
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