Summer ’22 Playlist

Well hello there!

Every summer for the past six years, I’ve done an actual summer playlist on here. I’ve loved putting them together for not only you, but for myself because then I can keep track of these amazing songs year after year. I suppose if you wanted to go back even further on what I liked to listen to prior to these individual posts, you can look through at June through September and you might find some more jams that way, it’s just going to be time-consuming on you though. My only regret is I just wish my Spotify worked in 2016-18 so that I could have collected even more and shared them with you but can’t quite fix it now.

In the beginning, I was obsessed with EDM (electronic dance music) and I would go crazy for anything that would come out in mid-March in that genre and see how it would become the summer jam of the year. However, this summer I was really drawn to rock music, and I mean, the majority of the playlist below is made up of rock and heavy metal tracks, I don’t mind the switch one bit honestly. Some of the songs were released at the start of the year and depending on my love for it and how much its played on the various Sirius XM stations I listen to, will make its way to the summer playlist, so I hope everyone loves on what I’ve been enjoying lately and maybe you’ll find your anthem for the year, that is if you haven’t already!

Here is my Top 12 songs of the summer. Want to check out the entire playlist? Click here.

Rest in Peace by Dorothy
About Damn Time by Lizzo
ABCDEFU by GAYLE
Eye of The Storm by Pop Evil
Cleopatra by Train featuring Sofia Reyes
Pink Rover by Scene Queen
Trap God by Hollywood Undead
Voices In My Head by Falling In Reserve
Meteorite by BANKS
Pink Venom by BLACKPINK
Happy Ending by Demi Lovato
Boyfriend by Dove Cameron

Now have I found my anthem for the year? I don’t think so. Every time I think I’ve found it though, it changes on me, so that definitely doesn’t help me out at all, but any of these songs on the list above can be a great reminder of summer 2022. I would really love to hear your favorites on your own list in the comments.

March Playlist

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The music I was listening to this month was all over the place. Well, it’s like that all of the time, but I didn’t want a single artist/genre, I was switching it up every day. The reason for this was because I found my main Blog Playlist, I had on the right side of the site in 2015-16, when our internet wouldn’t allow me to have my Spotify for a longer period of time. I can’t tell you how grateful to have three separate ways to listen to my playlists now! Anyways, the playlist has some good jams, but it is super long, so I’ll probably listening to it as we make our way into April.

I’ve also made it my mission every week to pay attention to my ‘Discover Weekly’ too. I like how on the beginning and end of the weeks are controlled by the wide range of music. My DW playlist changes on Monday and every Friday we get brand new music, so they are really handy if you want something new or want to stay with a certain genre/mood. For example, if I’m in a mood for BANKS and proceed to listen to her stuff for like half a week, it’ll give you artists and songs that might be similar to her.

For March, I thought we should bring back the Top 25 because why not? If you’d like to listen to the full playlist, click here.

Transform by Julianne Hough
Trophy Hunter by Within Temptation
Bitch by Emily Vaughn
iPad by The Chainsmokers
Holding Back by BANKS
Chicken Teriyaki by Rosalia
Chaos by Hollywood Undead
Bad Girlfriend by Theory of a Deadman
Every Man Is A Warrior by Lena Fayre
Go by Meg Myers
Day Before We Went To War by Dido
God Gave Me You by Dave Barnes
Impermanence (Abbey Road Version) by Architects
Invisible by Ashlee Simpson
Now I’m In It by HAIM
My Universe by Kurt Hugo Schneider featuring Alex Goot & First To Eleven
Crystaleyes by AVIVA
Decay by Sevendust
Bad Habits by The Animal In Me
Love Me Harder by Lauren Babic featuring Radvansky
War (Epic Trailer Version) by J2 featuring Maddi Lasker
American Idiot by Halocene
Pinky Ring by Ne-Yo featuring O.T. Genasis
Butterflies by Abe Parker
Circle The Drain by Wage War

Whenever there is a situation somewhere in the world, I tend to really lean on my cinematic music, especially the superhero/uplifting type of music, but ever since the start of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, I’ve really pushed them away because it just seemed weird to be listening much less sing along to lyrics that these people are actually experiencing right now. Honestly, I didn’t want to talk about my thoughts of what’s going on, but there is one song that I found at the beginning of the fighting, and it was J2’s version of Edwin Starr’s “War (What Is It Good For?)” featuring the singer Maddi Lasker. I’ve only listened to it twice earlier in the month, but I can’t hear it anymore or else it’ll make me sadder of what’s going on.

What were you listening to in March?

February Playlist

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It is time for this month’s playlist and I am SO excited because I felt like this was such a big time for music! I did a lot of discovering new music and reading for February, and I actually enjoyed being able to multitask like this! I would go back and forth between wanting to read my books as you’ve probably seen with all of my reviews lately, but music has played a big part of it too!

This month’s playlist on Spotify is gigantic! I mean, I’m not really surprised but I wasn’t expecting the actual  number to be lower than 200! As I am writing this post, the amount of songs included is: 139!

I am definitely bringing back listing my Top 25 songs for this! I feel like I would have a difficult time making it smaller, so it’ll just make things easier on me so I can add all of my favorites.

Good In Goodbye by Madison Beer
Mambo by Nikki Vianna
Reckless by Yellow Claw x Fatman Scoop
Light It Up by UNSECRET featuring Manafest
Someone New by Astrid S
Gotta Make It by Trey Songz featuring Twista
Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera
Hi Bitch by Bhad Bhabie
So Thick by WHIPPED CREAM featuring Baby Goth
Noise by Nightwish
React by The Pussycat Dolls
Medusa by Jhay Cortez with Anuel AA & J Balvin
No Good by Ally Brooke
Supernova by Within Temptation
Billie Jean by The Civil Wars
Do Or Die by Amaranthe featuring Angela Gossow
Have You Ever Been In Love? XYLO
Out Of The Mind by Lawless with MXMS
A Thousand Years by Jasmine Thompson
Not About Angels by Jasmine Thompson
16 Shots by Steffion Don
I Do!! by Toya
Fuego by DJ Snake featuring Sean Paul, Anitta, & Tainy
Mirage by Nextro

As I mentioned above, I did a lot of reading this month too. How are you about music playing in the background while you clean or read? I honestly enjoy listening to instrumentals; it is my go-to every time. However, lately I’ve been wanting something different, because sometimes whenever I have instrumental music going on, it can make me want to go to sleep. For two days in a row, I used Spotify’s playlist called “Arabic Trap”. I love trap music but with very little vocals. There is another one I like to use and it’s called “Ethnic Trap” and this has both Indian and Arabic trap music included. I don’t use it very often, but since I feel like I have listened to all of the tracks in the first one, I may have to switch them around.

I know I haven’t done any music reviews lately, but that doesn’t mean I’m not checking them out though! I’ve heard Major Lazer’s new EP “Soca Storm” and Krewella’s new album “zer0” so far. I have three others left and I’ll try to get to them soon!

What have you been listening to for February? Do you have a favorite album and/or song?

The Best Songs Of 2019!

Howdy!

This week is my chance to catch up on previous posts that I wanted to do back in December, but I didn’t have room in the week to post and schedule them. I was a bit hesitant to publish them now, but considering I’m still seeing people on BookTube sharing what they read and their favorites for 2019, I knew I was still good to get this one and Friday’s post live for you!

For both my birthday and Christmas, I was gifted with a tablet and new laptop, thanks to my nana and with that, I managed to gain access to Spotify again! I was way too giddy when I downloaded both apps onto the devices. I have spent about two years of using it off and on because I just didn’t have any more space on my laptop to open it. It didn’t matter how much I deleted files or photos, it was never enough to play music for longer than a day. As much as it sucked, I learned to go in another route with the usage of YouTube, although this required you to have a list of songs to look up beforehand, so I ended up listening to the same stuff everyday.

Now what’s funny is that when I finally had time to get my “Best Songs of ’19” together, I wondered if the amount of songs would be lower than the last time I did this. Back in 2015, I compiled a playlist on Spotify of my favorite songs and that was a time were I could visit the app whenever I wanted, so the total number of songs on there is: 83. I thought it was more than that honestly! For this playlist though, it was the polar opposite; it has 119 songs on it! I have to admit, it does help to create a monthly playlist to help keep up with new music, and I tried my best to have one at the end of the month!

So, I thought about this and have decided I am going to list my Top 25 songs of 2019 for you today!

When I Die by ALMA
Gloria Regali by Tommee Profit x Fleurie
Loyal To Me by Nina Nesbitt
Give You Up by Dido
You Should See Me In A Crown by Billie Eilish
Kill This Love by BLACKPINK
Gimme by BANKS
Queen Of Mean by Sarah Jeffrey
Malibu Night by LANY
Out Of Love by Alessia Cara
Mamacita by Jason Derulo featuring Farruko
Let Me Down Slowly by Alec Benjamin
Strip by Little Mix featuring Sharaya J
Lost In Japan by Shawn Mendes
Graveyard by Halsey
You Need To Calm Down by Taylor Swift
Wish Wish by DJ Khaled featuring Cardi B & 21 Savage
China by Anuel AA with Daddy Yankee, Ozuna, Karol G & J Balvin
Mother’s Daughter by Miley Cyrus
Sucker by Jonas Brothers
Lose You To Love Me by Selena Gomez
Me Necesita by PRETTYMUCH x CNCO
Into The Unknown by Idina Menzel & AURORA
Mind Over Matter by Anthony Ramos
Promises by Calvin Harris featuring Sam Smith

Man, that is a long list of songs!

And something that I wasn’t expecting was the fact that I was easier than I thought it would be. As I kept typing different ones, I was half accepting the fact that I would go over the amount, but I only had to delete one!

I picked all of these songs for different reasons: they were played a million times, came at me in a happy or sad time, they could have brought out my sexy side, etc. I went through a lot of emotions last year and took lots of breaks in between blog posts too so I had time on my feet to enjoy some great music!

If you would like to see what else I was loving, you can click here to be directed to my (even longer!) Spotify playlist. Hope you have enjoyed this post and I’ll see you here on Friday!

What were your top songs of 2019?

Summer Playlist 2019!

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It is time for a whole new summer playlist! This is usually one of my favorite things to look forward to, because if you know me well enough I have never really liked the season. I mainly like it for the amount of really great music that comes out!

Now I say “usually” because whenever I work on these posts I always get very angry at myself because I never keep track of the music that I’ve enjoyed listening to, for some reason I’m always hoping it’ll still be in my Top 10 or 20 list in my head but it never happens! However, what does keep me in positive spirits is the fact that I continue to publish my monthly playlists on here, so if I do forget a notable song that is like at the very tip of my tongue, there’s a good chance it could be in the other posts… If it’s not, I have to go on YouTube to search the most popular summer anthems of the year, which is what I had to do with this post, so I still feel like I’m forgetting a few but I also didn’t want to go overboard the amount of songs on this list either.

Here are the songs that I liked the most over the past four months now!

Say My Name by David Guetta feat. Bebe Rexha & J Balvin
China by Anuel AA feat. Ozuna, Daddy Yankee, Karol G & J Balvin
Runaway by Sebastien Yatra feat. Jonas Brothers, Natti Natasha & Daddy Yankee
I Don’t Care by Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber
Sucker by Jonas Brothers
The Search by NF
Me by Taylor Swift feat. Brandon Urie
Dancing With A Stranger by Sam Smith & Normani
Thinkin Bout You by Ciara
Wish Wish by DJ Khaled feat. CardI B & 21 Savage
Nightmare by Halsey
How Can I Forget by MKTO
Last Hurrah by Bebe Rexha
Medicine by Jennifer Lopez feat. French Montana
If I Can’t Have You by Shawn Mendes
Started by Iggy Azalea
Never Really Over by Katy Perry
Kill This Love by Blackpink
Only Want You by Rita Ora
Lips on’t Lie by Ally Brooke feat. A Boogie With da Hoodie
Mother’s Daughter by Miley Cyrus
Easier by 5 Seconds of Summer
Banana by Anitta feat. Becky G
Rescue Me by OneReuplic
Talk by Khalid
Glad He’s Gone by Tove Lo
Better When You’re Gone by David Guetta, Brooks & Loote
Out Of Love by Alessia Cara

Yeah, I know. This is massive but I feel like every single one of them came to me at a specific point in my life. Some were easy to spot and understand while the rest are still a mystery!

I said this in my previous playlist but I have been listening to a lot of raggaeton music lately and was pretty sure that it would cover the entire thing but it didn’t, I was actually very surprised! The only bad thing about doing this post in the middle of the month is that there could be some last minute bangers–I mean, a week after I finished last year’s post, DJ Snake’s “Taki Taki” with Ozuna, Cardi B and Selena Gomez came out and I cannot tell you how pissed off I was for not waiting a little longer, but I’ve learned to live with it.

Now it’s over to you, what do you think were the best summer anthems of 2019?