Picture this: You are walking back from a friend's apartment late at night. You're feeling fine; you're a little tired, but you had a nice time. You decide to listen to music for a few minutes as you make your way back to your dorm. You press shuffle on your favorite songs on Spotify (or Apple Music, if you're a barbarian), and the first song that comes on is "Ivy" by Frank Ocean. Before you know it, you're ugly crying. You have to stop and sit down on a bench to collect yourself. Several people stop and ask if you need help. (This is all hypothetical, of course.)
Whether or not you’re familiar with this situation, in our dynamic and fast-paced lives as students, it is absolutely necessary to have multiple playlists for different occasions. Your background music when you're getting ready for a 10 a.m. Monday class should sound a lot different from your background music when you're getting ready to go out at 10 p.m. on a lively Saturday. Your life deserves a movie-quality soundtrack. Therefore, I've curated a master list of four ten-song, no-skip playlists for different moments in your day-to-day life:
“Miss Summer,” ODIE
“Venus Flytrap,” Feng Suave
“OUTTA MY MIND,” Monsune
“Weekend Friend,” Goth Babe
“Headfucked,” Shy Girls
“Show Me How,” Men I Trust
“Saw You In A Dream,” The Japanese House
“Visions,” Loving
“Shampoo Bottles,” Peach Pit
“You Say I'm in Love,” Banes World
for when you're walking down Thayer feeling like a BMOC (Big Man on Campus)
“Skate,” Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak, Silk Sonic
“Freeze Tag (feat. Phoelix),” Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, 9th Wonder“I Wish,” Skee-Lo
“CRISIS,” Sam Ezeh
“We Don't Care,” Kanye West
“I Believed It (feat. Mac Miller),” dvsn, Ty Dolla $ign
“The Count (feat. Wiz Khalifa),” Curren$y, Harry Fraud
“I Was Sad Last Night I'm OK Now,” tobi lou
“HIT EM WHERE IT HURTS,” PawPaw Rod
“Jet Black (feat. Brandy),” Anderson .Paak
“Violent Crimes,” Kanye West
“Cold Little Heart - Radio Edit,” Michael Kiwanuka
“Come Back to Earth,” Mac Miller
“when the party's over,” Billie Eilish
“Fade Into You,” Mazzy Star
“SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK,” Joji
“Holding Out For You,” Pond
“Tommy's Party,” Peach Pit
“Godspeed,” Frank Ocean
“Paul,” Big Thief
“In My Room,” Frank Ocean
“WUSYANAME (feat. YoungBoy Never Broke Again),” Tyler, The Creator
“Ghost Town,” Kanye West, PARTYNEXTDOOR
“Funny Thing,” Thundercat
“Photo ID (with Dominic Fike),” Remi Wolf
“Borderline,” Tame Impala
“Waves,” Kanye West
“BOY BYE,” BROCKHAMPTON
“Ego Death (feat. Kanye West),” Ty Dolla $ign, FKA twigs, Skrillex
“Dang! (feat. Anderson .Paak),” Mac Miller