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What I Listened to the Week of July 25th, 2020

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My playlist for this week was the playlist I listened to at my consignment shop internship. At work, my boss put on a Pandora radio station with alternative vibes, and at the beginning, I only knew one song. However, after seven days of the same songs, I really liked a lot of them, and tried to track them all down! This involved testing the Sam Feldt Radio station on Pandora (my boss’s playlist was one of his songs, I just didn’t know which one), taking pictures of the currently playing song on the iPad, and typing the lyrics I could make out into the memo app on my watch. This is the list I came up with:

P.S. I included the Spotify link to the whole playlist at the end of the list too!

1.) Roses by SAINt JHN (Imanbek Remix)

2.) Carry Me by Kygo (ft. Julia Michaels)

3.) Dancing On My Own by Calum Scott

4.) Stargazing by Kygo (ft. Justin Jesso)

5.) Post Malone by Sam Feldt (ft. RANI)

6.) Save Tonight by Sam Feldt (Redondo Remix)

7.) More Than You Know by Axwell ^ Ingrosso

8.) Tie Me Down by Gryffin with Elley Duhé

9.) Yes by Sam Feldt (ft. Akon)

10.) Freedom by Kygo (ft. Zac Abel)

11.) Stranger Things by Kygo (ft. OneRepublic)

12.) Exodus by Sam Feldt (ft. Otis Parker & Garrison Starr)

13.) Alive (The Edge) by Sam Feldt (ft. ROOKIES)

14.) Scared To Be Lonely by Dua Lipa & Martin Garrix

15.) Carry Me Home by Sam Feldt (ft. Sam Martin)

16.) So Close by NOTD & Felix Jaehn (ft. Georgia Ku & Captain Cuts)

17.) Raging by Kygo (ft. Kodaline)

18.) Something Strange by Vicetone (ft. Haley Reinhart)

19.) Firestone by Kygo (ft. Conrad Sewell)

20.) Blackbird by Sam Feldt (ft. Jake Reese)

21.) We Don’t Walk We Fly by Sam Feldt (ft. Bright Sparks)

22.) High and Low by Sam Feldt (ft. Joshua Radin)

23.) Leave Me Alone by Sam Feldt (ft. George Shelley)

24.) Capsize by Frenship & Emily Warren

25.) Show Me Love by Sam Feldt (ft. Kimberly Anne)

26.) Sensational by Sam Feldt

27.) Wishing Well by Sam Feldt (ft. Olivia Sebastianelli)

28.) Stole The Show by Kygo (ft. Parson James)

29.) I’ll Be Back by Sam Feldt (ft. ROOKIES)

30.) Closure by Sam Feldt (ft. Valerie Broussard)

31.) Start Again by Sam Feldt

32.) Higher Love by Kygo (ft. Whitney Houston)

33.) Chase You Down by RUNAGROUND

34.) Head & Heart by Joel Corry x MNEK

Here is the playlist on Spotify as well:

Disclaimer: I don’t own any of these songs.

What I Listened to the Week of July 19th, 2020

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I will admit, I listened to two songs on repeat this entire week, and I didn’t even listen to the full songs. These two songs are 1.) Alexander Hamilton, and 2.) My Shot, both from the Hamilton Soundtrack. I listened to the first minute and 19 seconds of Alexander Hamilton, and the first minute and 14 seconds of My Shot.

When Hamilton the musical first became famous and the music was posted online, many people would listen to the entire soundtrack again and again, but I was not one of them. I was lucky enough to get to see the show in the spring of my freshman year of high school, so I thought that since I was going to go see it, I didn’t need to listen to the music in advance. When we saw the show, it was great, but I didn’t become obsessed with it. Come Disney Plus’s release of the show, I watched it again, and this time, I could actually see everyone’s faces (I had forgotten my glasses when we saw it on Broadway), and this time I realized how good it was, and saw how inspirational Alexander Hamilton was. I decided I wanted to learn the beginning of the show, as I kept seeing ads of it, so I started learning the opening to Alexander Hamilton the song. Then, after watching a clip of Lin Manuel-Miranda rapping part of My Shot on youtube, I decided I had to learn that too. Now, I am proud to say I have learned both parts and done my best to imitate the actual speech patterns of the respective singers.

In my time learning the songs, I realized that Mr. Hamilton was indeed a hard worker and a self-starter, and I decided to be one too. The songs motivated me to reach out to a small business owner in my town to see if I would get a job or internship, and it actually worked. Now, as I start my website/blog and do my internship, I am reminded to keep grinding, as Hamilton plays in my head (or out loud) constantly!

I will say, the writers of Hamilton are genius’s, simply put, and now I can say I am Hamilton obsessed too, just like the rest of the world. So, if you are in need of some motivation or a rap to learn, I highly recommend these songs, as I will probably be listening to them on repeat for the coming weeks as well.

Now, for that apology to my family for my incessant noise…