What’s your favorite song? How does that song make you feel? The one song that you know all the words to? The song that’s always stuck in your head and never wants to go away? Music is a huge part of everyone’s lives whether they have an earbud in all day or they sing it in the shower, so what are Tahoma students favorite artists, songs, and genres?
Spotify, with over 602 million listeners, is one of the most popular and most used music apps in the world with varying artists and genres, and more than 100 million songs.
As a Spotify user myself, I listened to more than 35 thousand minutes of music in 2023 alone in a variety of genres, and over 50 artists.
When discussing this topic with Chaislynn Hauck, she said that her top three artists right now are Alex Warren, David Kushner, and The Weeknd.
Oftentimes I tend to not listen to an artist’s entire discography, I usually find a song that they sing and only put that one on a playlist, but the right artist can make all the difference when it comes to entire albums and discographies.
Over quarantine I found that I had a lot more free time where I would sit there bored not knowing what to do, so I started to listen to a lot more music and broadened my horizons looking for more genres that I may not have usually found myself listening to.
During Covid I had started listening to Harry Styles, One Direction, and my favorite artist Louis Tomlinson.
Back then I never would have thought I would like any of them because I thought they were silly, but I quickly changed my mind after listening to them and watching interviews and videos and falling in love with their music.
Certain artists and music genres can also help create relationships with people you may never have thought you would.
When discussing music artists with Alexis Blair, we found that we have a very similar music taste with artists like Conan Gray, Harry Styles, One Direction, and Louis Tomlinson which has only strengthened our relationship over time.
As time goes on many people experience changes in their music taste as well, the music we listen to when we’re kids is never the same as our taste as adults, you may change genres from country to rock, or you may just gain a new artist.
When asking Chaislynn how her music taste differs from when she was younger, she said, “when I was younger my mom listened to a lot of country music, but I’m more into pop music and artists like Alex Warren.”
With genres such as pop, indie, rock, and folk, and artists like Noah Kahan, Reneé Rapp, Louis Tomlinson, and The Wallows, sometimes you can listen to a wide variety of music while it all stays in almost the same vibe.
Listening to music can help you get through tough days, and it can also make your good days better as long as you are listening to the right song, the right song can set the mood for any point in your life, you just have to listen closely and feel whatever seems right.
I ask again, what is your favorite song? How does that song make you feel?
