Nobody Likes You When You’re 23

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What if you woke up and music was extinct? No more songs. Each day you make it to 5pm is more disappearing of the memory of albums and melodies, playlists and mix-CDs that were the soundtrack to your growing.

I had that thought sometime this summer, driving to work, Frank Ocean’s falsetto in my ears.

Fuck I’m glad we have music.

And so are our writers. 12 out of 14 reference music. Favorite artists, playing for sanity, how a music podcast saved their life.

We didn’t plan that. I don’t remember talking with the writers about it. But, I’m not surprised.

Music is human.

Check out the songs that helped us keep being it.