Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
This mix is about how I want to cheer you up when you’re feeling stressed.
Why It’s Pretentious: Obviously, I named this after the mid-2000s buzz band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. And yet it contains no songs by CYHSY. (Unintentional irony? We’re walking a thin line here.) It does, however, contain all songs with hand claps in them because FACT: you are incapable of frowning while listening to songs with hand claps in them. It’s also pretentious because I refer to them as hand claps. It’s like, what else are you supposed to clap with? These are the things that keep me up at night.
Tracklisting, downloads, and bonus video after the jump.
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1. I Am The Heart That You Call Home
This mix is about the first day of school, freshmen year of college.
Why It’s Pretentious: Remember when I kept up this blog and it was awesome because you got new music from 2-4 years ago but then I moved into my own house and started a milkshake truck and sort of dropped off the face of the world? DON’T EVEN WORRY ABOUT IT CAUSE I’M BACK.
This is one of my favorite mixes from the past few years. If I play you one of my tapes, it’ll probably be this one because it’s overtly cheerful yet also raises deep questions: Remember when music critics started treating “Ivy League” like a musical genre? Remember when you thought it was okay to put 3 Miles Fisher songs on one mix because you his EP had 4 songs, so you were being selective? Remember when you thought taking the midnight Greyhound to Cincinnati by yourself was a good idea? PROTIP: it’s not.
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! (reblog)
This mix is about how I want to cheer you up when you’re feeling stressed.
Why It’s Pretentious: Wow. You know what’s hard? Trying to reblog yourself. What’s with that, tumblr? Didn’t you read my blog name and assume that I’d be super into myself? Anyway. Sarah (not-my-roommate) requested a mix with handclaps that make her feel not as bad about midterms. GUESS WHAT, SARAH, YOU ARE IN LUCK BECAUSE I MADE EXACTLY THAT MIX IN HIGH SCHOOL. Seriously. I put it in a care package/graduation gift for one of my friends, along with some candy and stuff, cause I’m like, totally adorable, you know? But now this is a gift from me to you.
It’s midterms for me too, so I’m gonna go back to studying/writing a novel/reading. Until next week, Tumblr!
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