Week 7 Radio - Music Archive
Hello XPUB1!☺
For the Week 7: Radio Show, we would love to hear your songs!♫♪
More specifically, songs from your early teenage years (13 to 16y.o.)! There are specific themes for the songs we are looking to collect, explained in the sections below.⇊
Please, upload your songs as .mp3, add your name, the name of the song and artist and if you want, a short description as to how & why your song relates the theme/prompt. We already uploaded a song as a template to copy/paste with your songs.
Thank you!♡
- Chrissy, Imina, Kiara, Tessa & Charlie
SHAME
Prompt: A song you were ashamed of liking when you were 13-16.
Charlie: "Ningyo Hime" - Rie Tanaka (CHOBITS Anime Ending)
Age: 13-15
Context: Chobits was the first Manga I ever saw/read at 10 y.o., which sparked my love for Manga and Anime, which ultimately sparked my love for drawing and arts.. I still LOVE the song but I was super ashamed to unironically listen to anime music back in my early teenage years.
Zuhui: "Prologue" - David Newman (Soundtrack from Disney movie 'Anastasia')
Age: 14-16
Context: I remember feeling a sense of shame for liking music from animated series or movie when I was a teenager. As a kid I wanted to be seen as grown up as much as possible and do grown up stuffs, so enjoying something from animated contents made me feel immature. Apart from how misleading the historical facts are in this Disney movie, I still love the atmosphere and the song it created around the pre and post Russian revolution, with magic in between.
GUILT
Prompt: A guilty pleasure song from your teenage years (you still listen to).
Imina: "You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home" - Hannah Montana
Age: 12-14
Context: If Hannah Montana can find her way back home, so can I :')
Zuhui: "Pump it" - Black Eyed Peas
Age: 14-16
Context: I used to be a big fan of the Black Eyed Peas as a teenager because back then they were the coolest thing ever. I still listen to some of their songs, but I think I feel guilty about it because my friends think they're cringe. It's mostly because their music is now played regularly at tasteless pubs and clubs during 2000s-themed nights(but I would still love to dance my ass off to this).
SORROW
Prompt: A song that made you sob or which you listened to when you were terribly sad.
Zuhui: "Sometimes" - The Drones
Age: 16
Context: This song always managed to hit the melancholy just right, violent sobbing included!
LOVE
Prompt: A song from an artist/artists/band you still listen to today.
Sevgi: "Haberin Yok Oluyorum" - Duman
Age: 15
Context: Duman's concerts were the first concerts where I went with my friends, drank beers and had loads of fun. I loved this song because the crowd would become one and sway one way and then the other together and it felt incredible to finally be a person but also belong to the crowd.
Alexandria: Free Money - Patti Smith
Age: 15-16
Context: I always admired Patti Smith, and she's one of the few artists I never really "got over". Learning more about her as I went kept fascinating me and reeling me back into her music, and I've accepted that Horses is a permanent fixture in my top picks for my favourite albums.