![]() ![]() Did I make one called “I will fight gravity in hand-to-hand combat and win?” Perhaps. I know I definitely made more playlists this year than I have for any other. I think that was a particularly fitting theme for this year, because sometimes it’s just you and your wildly specific Spotify playlists against the world. “This year, my top song was “Little Talks” by Of Monsters and Men, which in my opinion, is the perfect combination of aching nostalgia and the undeniable power of human memories. After all, who doesn’t love an algorithm’s in-depth and terrifyingly accurate analysis of your personality via the songs you listen to while fighting your way through finals season, especially when framed in bright and bold colors? It was my primary motivation for making a Spotify account in the first place. dreams I write in my Notes app: something that I can share in snippets, but that ultimately I would rather keep to myself.” I’m not ashamed, I just think my Spotify Wrapped is like the 3 a.m. For me, it meant listening to BTS’s “Butter” 518 times as I reaped every ounce of serotonin I could before my seasonal depression hit. For some people, that resulted in braggable year-end lists and aesthetic auras. ![]() Between Zoom classes and the emergence of new COVID-19 variants, we each did what we had to do to get through this past year. I respond to my brother’s all-caps enthusiasm - “SHOW US THE GOODS” - by admitting that Nicholas Britell was my second most-listened-to artist for the second year in a row - I write all my papers to the “Succession” soundtrack. When friends ask about my top five songs, I tell them I spent 52,290 minutes listening to music. “ Every year, I give out my Spotify Wrapped in pieces. Maybe next year I’ll strike a balance between surpassing my fellow music listeners in adjective count and properly existing within this century.” Cool in modernity? I think the necessary use of the word “modernity” is the nail in the coffin on that hard no. This pride ride was quickly shot down, however, upon discovering that my top song of the year was “Clair de Lune, L. Is it a singular adjective which contains two adjectives, thereby meaning that Spotify described my music taste in three adjectives unlike the rest of Spotify’s peasantly two-adjective music listening population? Yes. ![]() “Upon opening my much anticipated Spotify Wrapped, I was mostly honored to have my music taste described in three adjectives instead of a measly two - “happy” and “hopeless romantic.” Is hopeless romantic technically one adjective? Perhaps. It does feel like a lot of time, but seems to pale in comparison to my friends’ literal months of lofi hip hop study beats.” I ended up spending approximately 17 days of my life this year listening to Spotify, none of which I regret - although the brief foray into alt-communist punk was a strange era. Indeed, the mix of starting the year amidst the throes of the pandemic back home and finishing it amidst the crazy that has been my first semester at Yale really did create dual personalities for my Wrapped aura. “I’m not entirely sure how these two can go together, but I find it representative of the fact that my top 10 songs come straight off of my workout playlist and the next 10 come off my main character, deep feels playlist that I reserve exclusively for trying to romanticize my walk from Branford College to Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall. ![]() “Spotify says my Audio Aura is wistful and confident. ![]()
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