Grade 10 and into grade 11 was a lot of emo/"screamo"/pop-punk (My Chemical Romance, The Academy Is..., Cute Is What We Aim For, Cobra Starship, The Devil Wears Prada, Chiodos, Taking Back Sunday, Brand New, Get Up Kids, etc.)
Moving further into grade 11, it was grew more into the indie+more (Ting Tings, MGMT, Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, Tegan and Sara, Metric, Justice, Chromeo, The Prodigy, Flight of the Conchords, Band of Horses, The Submarines, Natalie Portman's Shaved Head, The Moldy Peaches/Kimya Dawson, Bloc Party, Vampire Weekend, Peaches, Regina Spektor, omg so many).
Twelfth grade I leaned reallyyyyy hard into my whole Yearning phase before I left for college so a lot of Stars, Sufjan Stevens, Rilo Kiley, Beirut, The Naked and Famous, The Decemberists, Phoenix, Foster the People, The Smiths (lol)...
The list could go on and on, but it was a fun time, musically.
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Definitely a lot of overlap! I left off a lot of my own Emo phase but Cute is What We Aim For, Brand New, The Get Up Kids, MCR… all on there. Weirdly, someone I knew in 2013 dated the sister of the lead singer for The Academy Is… for a minute. Small world.
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9th grade: Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Panic! At The Disco, Gym Class Heroes, Cobra Starship, basically the whole Fueled By Ramen roster
Also listened to M.I.A., Klaxons, Foals, Crystal Castles, Hot Chip, MGMT, Justice. Also became an Arctic Monkeys stan at this time.
10th grade was my death core and Christan metalcore phase: Suicide Silence, Whitechapel, Carnifex, BMTH, As Blood Runs Black , Underoath, August Burns Red, The Devil Wears Prada, Norma Jean
I was also listening to Pierce The Veil, From First To Last, Chiodos, Circa Survive
11th grade I got really into The Fall Of Troy and The Mars Volta. I found out about Dance Gavin Dance and “swancore”. And I listened to a little bit of dubstep before it was “cringe”
12 grade I went full The Chariot stan and also got into The Locust idk I just wanted noise. I was also listening to Animals As Leaders, Cloudkicker and other “confusing” music.
During all of high school was recession pop at its finest: Ke$ha, Black Eyed Peas, Jason Derulo, Rihanna, etc
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freshman year was hot off the coat tails of my emo/scene years. somehow transitioned from that to mostly bachata and reggaeton. lots of joey bada$$ / pro era new york rap as well. and i loved lana del rey.
sophomore year was a blur i couldn’t tell you. probably the same with a bit more rap. loved me some lorde tho. i think i also stumbled upon genesis by grimes around this time.
junior year i discovered fka twigs and it changed me. it was a lot of her and childish gambino. anime soundtracks and j-rock too. lots of nujabes bc i had just watched samurai champloo. ultraviolence came out that year. it was crazy.
senior year was a lot. i got back into kpop + k r&b for a bit (had a brief stint in middle school). i was really into mac demarco and loved kali uchis down. i also discovered kilo kish this year. i graduated in the infancy of the flower boy peach sunflower era so that should inform you on what my tastes were morphing into.
i also have awful memory in general but looking back makes me realize i truly tell time through music. that’s the bulk of what i can remember from my teen years.
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I started high school during the end of my kpop era transitioning into my hipster indie Tumblr era which stuck around until the end. But I was committed to the emo trinity (fall out boy, my chemical romance, panic! at the disco) too. And dabbling in post hardcore. I was a music kid so naturally I loved musical theatre. This was peak Hamilton era. I also loved going to the opera and ended up listening to a lot of operas too. By the end of high school CTRL by SZA just came out and everyone was in their r&b, hiphop and rap era. Just in time for me to get into Brockhampton for first year uni.
I wish I had a picture of my music stand from this era. I doodled all over it with band logos and lyrics.
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