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For all the boys I longed to kiss
For All The Boys I Longed to Kiss Entered into Vocal's Teen Angst Playlist Challenge: Share a playlist of your favorite angsty teenage songs, and tell us why they were an important part of your adolescence.
By Rachel M.J5 years ago in Beat
Return to 2015
Ah, high school. How I miss those simpler days. I can still smell the fresh printer paper and the whiteboard markers. I remember those days, when my biggest problems seemed to be studying for exams and dealing with petty gossip between my friends. I miss those angsty days. I really do. Going back through my Spotify, I found a whole bunch of songs from back in the good old days.
By Chloe Rose Violet 🌹5 years ago in Beat
Black as Death
Every teen has some angst - teens wouldn't be teens without it. I'd like to think my teen angst was a little different than most, though, because mine had something a little different to fuel it. Rather than being angry, rebellious, and stressed about how my parents "didn't get me", I kicked off my teen years with an especially distressing event: my dad died. With that, my teenage years became more angsty than they might have been otherwise, with a decidedly dark, brooding and mournful cast.
By Sasha Smith5 years ago in Beat
Music Gives Me Feels
Do you have any songs that make you sing so powerfully the experience brings a tear to your eye? ... I may have a few of those. In fact, a fair few are from my middle and high school years, and I still listen to them on occasion for the nostalgia factor.
By Kaitlyn Dawn5 years ago in Beat
Nothing is Angstier Than Evanescence
I love that feeling when I hear a melody that somehow causes butterflies in my stomach and it’s all I can do to sit still and not get up and dance with the music. A euphoric wave envelopes me for just a minute or two and I can’t concentrate on anything but rather devote all my brainpower to the song and extend that dopamine rush as long as possible, which of course means I play that shit on repeat.
By TJ Sage5 years ago in Beat
Music in the Coming of Age in a Strict, Christian, Old-School Household
I remember feeling music to be my only method of escape from the endless ocean of pain that was my life as a young teen. As I floated through each day of eighth grade, ninth grade, and then the tenth, music was always my number one choice of medicine. Alas, during those years, life was truly a hard journey, indeed. I mean, between the eighth-grade science and the not knowing how to talk to my crush and the stuffing the back of my pants to make my butt look bigger because I wanted to look like the new girl all the boys in my pod were drooling over (yes I did this), I could see how the teen pressures got to me. I also vividly remember that I wholeheartedly believed my taste in music to be a gift to mankind, albeit the more grungy and alternative percentage of mankind. Quite a bit of my early teenage years is actually pretty much blocked from my memory because...duh. But the bits and pieces that still stick out to me like a sore thumb all have songs and emotions associated with them, which is basically perfect for this situation. Let's jump in at the beginning, shall we?
By Dani5 years ago in Beat
My Teenage Soundtrack
The most frustrating times of my life Unlike many teen movies, I would not call my teen years glamorous. In fact, I would say the opposite. I didn’t really enjoy school. It was a time where I was lead to believe that we all had to feel the same and be the same and if you didn’t fit into a certain stereotype or trope, And you get caught in gossip and stress from schoolwork. Teenage Angst by Placebo is the first song that came to my head when I saw this Vocal Challange.
By Chloe Gilholy5 years ago in Beat
Looking for Love
The year is 1978. Julie is an eighth-grade wallflower, the shiest girl at her school. She is taller than all the other students, including the boys, so she slouches in an attempt to conceal her height, for all the good that does. As the second child in a family of seven, all living on a teacher’s income, she can’t wear the latest fashions, and she certainly doesn’t fit in with the popular crowd. Her classmates rarely give her a second look, other than an occasional sneer . Her home life is fine, but her social life is nonexistent. Worst of all, she’s too shy to attract a boyfriend.
By Julie Lacksonen5 years ago in Beat
On Shuffle
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YobwCtJmJxm3mXggs8bfp?si=5f27d27d4e284618 Angst is defined as a feeling of deep anxiety or dread, typically an unfocused one about the human condition. Simply put, being in a state of angst involves a stagnant negative energy. Unless we are good about thought tracing, we are usually unaware of where it’s coming from. Everything in the universe is made of atoms that vibrate constantly, even if we don’t notice it with the naked eye. Humans are not an exception. We, too, are made of atoms that cause us to vibrate at a certain frequency. I remember learning the energy equation in Physics class: E = hv; where E represents energy, h is Planck’s constant (6.626 x 10-34 J · s), and v is frequency. By looking at this equation, we know that there is a direct relationship between energy and frequency. Stressful situations, confusion, peer pressure, depression, etc. are all experiences we go through that can cause us to vibrate at a lower frequency. When we have a lower frequency, we tend to feel and give off “negative energy”.
By Jessica Ann5 years ago in Beat
Why I Won't Use Spotify
I listen to music, a lot, I love it. In fact, one of the things I like most about my job is that I am justified in putting on headphones and blocking out everyone else in the office and listening to the music I want in isolation as I work.
By Jodie Adam5 years ago in Beat
A Typical Cliché
Music saved my life. I bet you read that, rolled your eyes and thought “what a cliché” but it is true. Growing up, I didn’t have the best home life and through my teenage years I ended up getting into drugs and drinking to try to cope with it. The only constant my life had with a sense of normality was music. They say that your life reflects in the music you listen to and I’m living proof of that. Every song I listened to always spoke to me in ways I couldn’t understand. With Billie Eilish becoming popular in recent years, I’d like to talk about the “sad girl” music before her that will always be iconic.
By YesItsMocha5 years ago in Beat
Nervous Young Man
Growing up I was always scared of pretty much everything and to this day I wouldn't be able to tell you why. I felt like making solid friendships and maintaining them was the only way I could be happy (realistically I still do). I'd say between the ages of 10-12 were really difficult and isolating, in which I felt a strong disconnect from the people around me and I didn't know who to talk to about it or what to do, I rarely slept well and I couldn't relax my mind. It was when I was 12 that I started to really get into music and understand how I wasn't alone in any of my feelings and I could resonate with these people. Below, I've attached my playlist, after which I want to describe why each of the songs listed are important to me at very specific and key moments in my teenage development.
By Ewan Zottarelli5 years ago in Beat