MARISSA BURR
Opinion Editor
Graphic By JOHN LEAHY | Staff Artist
I spend more than 40 hours a week surrounded by toddlers, and another 40 doing homework so I can finally earn my bachelor’s degree — I do not have the mental capacity to listen to songs all the way through. Even my favorite songs get skipped through and I just listen to the same verse of a song over and over and over and over and over until my partner begs me to turn it off.
So if you’re in a similar place — because I can’t be the only one stressed out in the first month of classes — this special edition of “A Playlist For Every Mood” is for you! These are in no particular order because there is no semblance of organization in any part of my life right now.
“But I will not let my grandparents bury their grandchild.” (0:43)
“Gut Punch/Don’t Meet Your Idols” by Everybody’s Worried About Owen
“And all this time spent on you, all these lines I wrote you, how dare they mean nothing at all?” (2:22)
“Tall As Heaven” by Makeout Monday
“But what I’ve left behind looks trifling, what’s ahead looks black, am I doomed to spend my life lingering on?” (3:07)
“On the Right Track” by Patina Miller and Matthew James Thomas
“And I’ll say good riddance, cause it wasn’t sexy once it wasn’t forbidden. I would have died for your sins instead I just died inside, and you deserve prison but you won’t get time.” (2:54)
“The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” by Taylor Swift
*Side note this entire bridge has been on repeat since its release date. It heals something very broken inside of me.
“And I hope you’re there in the open air, there’s no map or compass to guide me.” (2:13)
“Wild Uncharted Waters” by Jonah Hauer-King
“How could anybody do the things you did so easily?” (1:42)
“The Grudge” by Olivia Rodrigo
“Say that I read for fun, but haven’t read in months.” (0:09)
“Quarter Life Crisis” by Taylor Bickett
“I wish I had known what I wanted. I wish you had never got mean.” (0:51)
“Friends (The Way I Wrote It) by Ian McConnell
“I’ve drawn out in Sharpie where I’d take the scissors if that’s what it took for me to look in the mirror. I’ve done every diet to make me look thinner so why do I still feel so god damn inferior?” (1:15)
“Fat Funny Friend” by Maddie Zahm
“If you could only know I’d never let you go.” (3:10) “Unsaid Emily” by Charlie Gillespie
“I’m still standing here. No, I didn’t disappear.” (2:32)
“Never Gone” by Colton Dixon
“No, I’d rather pretend I’m something better than these broken parts, pretend I’m something other than this mess that I am. ‘Cause then I don’t have to look at it and no one gets to look at it. No one can really see, ‘cause I’ve learned to slam on the brakes before I even turn the key, before I make the mistake, before I lead with the worst of me.” (3:40)
“Words Fail” by Ben Platt
“Did the nerves come get you? What’s your alibi?” (2:17)
“Austin” by Dasha
“And you’ll poke that bear ‘till the claws come out, and you’ll find something to wrap your noose around” (1:15) “Mad Woman” by Taylor Swift