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    Sam Roberts

    Three Music Moments

    1. My first major breakup in high school occured when I was listening to The Way We Move
    by Langhorne Slim. That album is very much not a breakup album, but listening to it in
    my car debating on dumping the boy who cheated on me after two years of dating (in
    high school… geez!) very much made it so. “On the Attack” has the lyrics ‘you take a
    step forward, you take two steps back’, which I applied to my situation at the time. Now,
    whenever I listen to that album I see my ex’s ceiling fan, his mom smoking outside on
    the porch, the forest my family went camping the week after. Now there’s an album that
    was there for me during one of the biggest personality-changing moments, when I went
    from being introverted to extroverted. I didn’t listen to that album for a good six months
    afterwards, so it makes it the perfect time capsule of that terrible, crying in the car in the
    high school parking lot time period.
    2. This one’s a bit different. Every year since 7th grade, I’ve edited together a montage
    video of all the photos and videos on my phone in a sort of video scrapbook. Each year, I
    choose an upbeat song to put the videos to - a song that I listened to a lot during that
    year. 7th Grade - “Good Morning Sunshine” by Alex Day; This song means being
    embarrassing at my friends house and obsessing over TV shows. 10th Grade - “House
    of Gold” by TwentyOne Pilots; This song means volunteering on the weekends at church
    camp and singing in after school choir. 12th Grade - “She’s a Riot” by The Jungle Giants;
    This song means going to the art museum, staying after school for AV Club, and driving
    around town. The original reason why I started making video scrapbooks is so I could
    keep my memories altogether in a place more reliable than my phone’s cloud. So,
    having the songs correlate with the year I listened to them only enhances the memories
    that I have of each year. Now, whenever I hear “Good Morning Sunshine” come up on
    my music, I skip it automatically because I don’t want to be reminded of the
    embarrassing junior high moments I had on a daily basis.
    3. “Casimir Pulaski Day” by Sufjan Stevens is probably one of the strongest memory
    associations I have with music. Playing that song reminds me of junior high, doing my
    algebra homework under the window in my room. It feels like fall and cold weather, but it
    retains such a warm feeling in my memories. I can almost see the pages of my algebra
    textbook, see the trees outside the bus ramp while pulling up to school. This song
    always came up whenever someone asked me what my favorite song was, from ages 13
    to 18 - but I hardly ever listened to it. Listening to “Casimir Pulaski Day” had such a
    strong and intense feeling that I couldn’t just listen to it whenever I wanted, otherwise the
    effect of the memory would get ruined. It reminds me of a time when I was less jaded
    about music taste, and thought of it as a journey that I could go on and discover versus
    something that everyone took part in.

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