Fall 2023 Playlist

I used to make monthly playlists all the time in high school. Every few weeks I’d spend hours on music blogs, MySpace, Xanga, and LiveJournal to find new music. I’d download low-quality songs from Xanga music blogs (Limewire scared me), import them into iTunes, spend way too long renaming them and finding album art, and craft the perfect playlist. I’d text my friends and trade burned CDs or USB drives filled with new songs we found.

I kept these monthly playlists going from 2005 until the fall of 2010 when I started my first year at art school. I lived in an apartment alone and didn’t have money. I made around $160/month working in a business office on campus where nobody liked me and this guy named Miguel kept bringing in donuts into the office on Fridays. He couldn’t eat the donuts because he was pre-diabetic and he would get irrationally upset over this.

But making so little money meant I couldn’t afford internet and didn’t have time when I was at school to download new music, so that year I just kind of missed out on making these playlists. I eventually dropped out of art school and moved into an apartment with my boyfriend, started working at Forever21, and was able to afford internet again. So I started making my playlists again. And now I’m going to start sharing them.

I don’t quite make them monthly anymore. I just don’t find myself looking for new music that much. But I do aim to make a new playlist based on the seasons: a fall playlist, winter, summer, and spring. It’s a fun way to look back on my life in that time period. It’s fun to pick a playlist from a few years back and revisit those songs. Sometimes I’m like… huh, I was really listening to that? But it’s fun.

My Fall 2023 is a mix of old and new. There’s a lot of new music from bands like blink-182 and Sum 41. There’s some music from a couple of years ago. A few pop songs. Idk, I just feel like it all kind of works together though.

You can find my Fall 2023 playlist on Spotify and Apple Music now. Enjoy!