Larry’s Playlist

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Songs or a lack of, tells a lot about a person. I used to hate listening to music and think it very intrusive and loud, too much waves and sounds disrupting my serene meditation but after holding out a losing battle to conform in with the rest of my peers that distinguished based on which songs you listen to. I finally fell to Vitamin C’s song Friends Forever, which is the first song that I really appreciated and acknowledged as a part of me to relate to, which also ironically was the graduation song when I heard it too. After a few years, the next song I can relate to was Greenday’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams. It had finally dawned on me almost leaving junior high that the hopes of being rekindled with elementary school friends was close to none and that truly everyone was off on their own separate paths in life and our paths never crossing again. Next was The Last Night where I thought about my next move and nights about how to cope with upcoming responsibilities. Frontline and Headstrong talks about how I felt coming out of junior high into high school with a can-do attitude towards everything and always fearless to do what others wouldn’t – or couldn’t. Eager to start fights, these two songs perfectly captures that mood. Songs 6,7, and 8 to me were a period in time where I was having emotional turnovers and seeking spiritual guidance and a well defined moral compass based on MY values, ethics and feelings rather than what others around me thought were the best move. Throughout my whole high school career, Eminem’s 8 Mile soundtrack Lose Yourself couldn’t describe me more perfect. Everyday was a day where I did what I wanted to, whether it was to cut class, socialize during class, or copy homework for the next class in a previous class. But as we go along life, we pick up things that weren’t ours and we make it a part of us. Like my disposition towards music which turned into defining who I am, and my initial confrontation of conforming, we all follow trends set by society. Nothing says this more than the next and last song, which was very popular during 2010 and opened the pathway to my taste in music which is now hip hop and pop, Far East Movement’s Like a G6.