music timeline: 10 songs for 2023
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liptinted10 songs i ended up putting on repeat that got me through the year, not even songs that are released in 2023. by that second criteria, it would only be three or four, and definitely not following my spotify wrapped. lmao my tastes this year are even worse, but it's the music that make u feel better somehow ok!! this is in chronological order from the beginning of the year until the end.
1. Keep Away - Carly Rae Jepsen
Album: The Loneliest Time (2022)
insanely good sleeper bonus track is all I have to say. she does LONGING in a classic good pop song like no other.
2. Tahanan - Nico Del Rosario
Single: Tahanan (2020)
this was from the gaya sa pelikula soundtrack, a movie i liked and finally watched in march, but now have mixed feelings on. regardless, the song still holds meaning to me without the movie. there's something so charming and comforting about the lyrics that actually got me through when i was like physically at my worst this year due to me working a night shift job that I quit in march lol! loosely translated, tahanan means home.
3. I Believe - Jonas Brothers
Album: Happiness Begins (2019)
i didn't even know they had an album in 2019, which i definitely didn't listen to. i just like This specific song and found it because it was playing in the home studio where i was getting my first tattoo during my trip to manila in may. lmao may and we're only 3 songs in... i was not having a good time from february to may. but the manila trip and the tour to the sagada mountains was the highlight of those months, even if me and one of my sisters and my mom did get covid for the first time jajsnsj.
4. #menow - fromis_9
Album: Unlock My World (2023)
hm. this didn't really grow on me until i kept listening to the album (In the Mirror and Attitude are my fave bside tracks). not my fave fromis title because everyone and their mother and me haven't gotten over love bomb...like i don't think u can top Love Bomb tbh. but there's something about #menow that put me in a better mood when I was putting on repeat.
5. Blue Banisters - Lana Del Rey
Album: Blue Banisters (2021)
okay i'm sure so many ppl who follow me on various social media know this already but 2023 in music was the year i rediscovered that lana del rey actually has really good music post-norman fucking rockwell but that's only because she went off my radars during the lockdown for getting cancelled online or whatever at the time. i wasn't even entirely sold at first on Ocean Blvd this year as a whole album though I had standout favourites from there, but Blue Banisters as an album is where she's really at. she goes lighter on the slow rock influences that was on ultraviolence and norman fucking rockwell, so a lot of her songs feel just a tad bit "stripped down" in blue banisters and more like lullabies weaved in throughout. the title song itself was supposedly dug up and worked on for about 10 years now. the lyrics quoted don't even do justice to the bittersweet full story the song tells!
6. All You Wanted - Michelle Branch
Album: The Spirit Room (2001)
i was updating my overly long and indulgent throwback playlist, and realized i needed more michelle branch on there.
7. Like a Prayer - Madonna
Album: Like A Prayer (1989)
this was actually pretty recently around october where my sister and i started re-watching glee from season 1. sometimes the group songs they'd perform at the end of the episode was a huge miss and there are so many filler episodes i forgot actually happened but the madonna episode was one of the more memorable ones <3 and then it got me to listen to miley cyrus' live cover that she did on a tour of hers, and then i was queueing up the original to play as well in a loop over and over. i just really like this song.
also lmfao, not me skipping over any of choice listens I struggle to remember from june to september... to be fair, most of the music i listened to during that period were all fic-related and thus influenced my spotify wrapped due to looping some of them while i was writing fic, and whatever i listened to for fic purposes isn't always equivalent to most-loved.
8. bad idea, right? - Olivia Rodrigo
Album: GUTS (2023)
i'm sorry miss olivia, i was not familiar with your game! when Sour came out i didn't see what the big deal was and i gave it a listen and decided it just wasn't for me. and then i watched the music video for bad idea, right? and then i understood. i'd already seen good4u's music video last year and decided to check out the rest of sour and didn't really vibe with it at the time, but i really like her punk tracks on GUTS, and lacy. i love the music video so much, and there's such cheek in her delivery of the lyrics in bad idea, right lol it's just such a good song.
9. august - Taylor Swift
Album: folklore (2020)
not me putting a folklore song on this list. i'd been listening to the album at the beginning of the year thanks to a graphic edit i saw on tumblr for ef wan brocedes (In my defense, I have none / For digging up the grave another time / But it would've been fun / If you would've been the one), which was surprisingly effective in that whenever the 1 comes up on shuffle it reminded me about that brocedes graphic -_- but on the brighter side my taylor fan coworker (who doesn't claim to be a full-on Swiftie) during my internship in Q4 this year gave us girls a taylor friendship bracelet each in our names and color coded the bracelets to suit each of us and i got folklore because she remembered me talking about it. i only cared about 3 songs at most for repeat sake but then in november i listened to august again at a very anxious time and something shifted, that is all i have to say. sometimes...u just gotta live for the hope of it all.. </3 muna did a cover of august too.
10. jsyk / the mood i'm in - The Maine
Album: The Maine (2023)
late discovery for something that was released in august, but december is always the time where i'm catching up on music on full holiday mode, and i'm in a pop punk phase this month. i found their cover of cruel summer which i debated putting on here as well because i love it, but the mood i'm in feels a lot more appropriate for my state.
god a bit of this list is so cringe now that I'm looking at it for real lmao but it was a difficult year what can I say. revived and remade my last.fm because i need to keep up with my scrobbles and find better ways to look up music because spotify's algorithm sucks. 2024 in music will be more fulfilling in my discovery! (hopefully)
1. Keep Away - Carly Rae Jepsen
Album: The Loneliest Time (2022)
insanely good sleeper bonus track is all I have to say. she does LONGING in a classic good pop song like no other.
In my whole life, I wish I never knew this kind of love
2. Tahanan - Nico Del Rosario
Single: Tahanan (2020)
this was from the gaya sa pelikula soundtrack, a movie i liked and finally watched in march, but now have mixed feelings on. regardless, the song still holds meaning to me without the movie. there's something so charming and comforting about the lyrics that actually got me through when i was like physically at my worst this year due to me working a night shift job that I quit in march lol! loosely translated, tahanan means home.
3. I Believe - Jonas Brothers
Album: Happiness Begins (2019)
i didn't even know they had an album in 2019, which i definitely didn't listen to. i just like This specific song and found it because it was playing in the home studio where i was getting my first tattoo during my trip to manila in may. lmao may and we're only 3 songs in... i was not having a good time from february to may. but the manila trip and the tour to the sagada mountains was the highlight of those months, even if me and one of my sisters and my mom did get covid for the first time jajsnsj.
4. #menow - fromis_9
Album: Unlock My World (2023)
hm. this didn't really grow on me until i kept listening to the album (In the Mirror and Attitude are my fave bside tracks). not my fave fromis title because everyone and their mother and me haven't gotten over love bomb...like i don't think u can top Love Bomb tbh. but there's something about #menow that put me in a better mood when I was putting on repeat.
5. Blue Banisters - Lana Del Rey
Album: Blue Banisters (2021)
She said, "Most men don't want a woman
With a legacy, it's our bane"
She said "You can't be a muse and be happy too
okay i'm sure so many ppl who follow me on various social media know this already but 2023 in music was the year i rediscovered that lana del rey actually has really good music post-norman fucking rockwell but that's only because she went off my radars during the lockdown for getting cancelled online or whatever at the time. i wasn't even entirely sold at first on Ocean Blvd this year as a whole album though I had standout favourites from there, but Blue Banisters as an album is where she's really at. she goes lighter on the slow rock influences that was on ultraviolence and norman fucking rockwell, so a lot of her songs feel just a tad bit "stripped down" in blue banisters and more like lullabies weaved in throughout. the title song itself was supposedly dug up and worked on for about 10 years now. the lyrics quoted don't even do justice to the bittersweet full story the song tells!
6. All You Wanted - Michelle Branch
Album: The Spirit Room (2001)
i was updating my overly long and indulgent throwback playlist, and realized i needed more michelle branch on there.
7. Like a Prayer - Madonna
Album: Like A Prayer (1989)
this was actually pretty recently around october where my sister and i started re-watching glee from season 1. sometimes the group songs they'd perform at the end of the episode was a huge miss and there are so many filler episodes i forgot actually happened but the madonna episode was one of the more memorable ones <3 and then it got me to listen to miley cyrus' live cover that she did on a tour of hers, and then i was queueing up the original to play as well in a loop over and over. i just really like this song.
also lmfao, not me skipping over any of choice listens I struggle to remember from june to september... to be fair, most of the music i listened to during that period were all fic-related and thus influenced my spotify wrapped due to looping some of them while i was writing fic, and whatever i listened to for fic purposes isn't always equivalent to most-loved.
8. bad idea, right? - Olivia Rodrigo
Album: GUTS (2023)
i'm sorry miss olivia, i was not familiar with your game! when Sour came out i didn't see what the big deal was and i gave it a listen and decided it just wasn't for me. and then i watched the music video for bad idea, right? and then i understood. i'd already seen good4u's music video last year and decided to check out the rest of sour and didn't really vibe with it at the time, but i really like her punk tracks on GUTS, and lacy. i love the music video so much, and there's such cheek in her delivery of the lyrics in bad idea, right lol it's just such a good song.
9. august - Taylor Swift
Album: folklore (2020)
not me putting a folklore song on this list. i'd been listening to the album at the beginning of the year thanks to a graphic edit i saw on tumblr for ef wan brocedes (In my defense, I have none / For digging up the grave another time / But it would've been fun / If you would've been the one), which was surprisingly effective in that whenever the 1 comes up on shuffle it reminded me about that brocedes graphic -_- but on the brighter side my taylor fan coworker (who doesn't claim to be a full-on Swiftie) during my internship in Q4 this year gave us girls a taylor friendship bracelet each in our names and color coded the bracelets to suit each of us and i got folklore because she remembered me talking about it. i only cared about 3 songs at most for repeat sake but then in november i listened to august again at a very anxious time and something shifted, that is all i have to say. sometimes...u just gotta live for the hope of it all.. </3 muna did a cover of august too.
Back when we were still changing for the better
Wanting was enough
For me, it was enough
10. jsyk / the mood i'm in - The Maine
Album: The Maine (2023)
late discovery for something that was released in august, but december is always the time where i'm catching up on music on full holiday mode, and i'm in a pop punk phase this month. i found their cover of cruel summer which i debated putting on here as well because i love it, but the mood i'm in feels a lot more appropriate for my state.
god a bit of this list is so cringe now that I'm looking at it for real lmao but it was a difficult year what can I say. revived and remade my last.fm because i need to keep up with my scrobbles and find better ways to look up music because spotify's algorithm sucks. 2024 in music will be more fulfilling in my discovery! (hopefully)