Pretentious Mix Tapes I Made In High School

Selections from “Theme Songs”

This mix is about me.

Why It’s Pretentious: In middle school, I had a very long playlist called “Theme Songs” that features songs that were CLEARLY WRITTEN ABOUT ME YOU GUYS. Since it’s from middle school, it a) doesn’t follow the theme of this blog and b) is even more angsty and bad than usual. (Please note how it starts with a song that is slightly sad and then jumps straight to a song about how I’m so much more awesome than you.) Obviously “There Is A Light That Never Goes Out” makes an appearance, but strangely, there’s no Jenny Owen Youngs or Taking Back Sunday, which I find to be an incredibly inaccurate representation of middle school me.

Side Note: Moovers and Shakers has their Kickstarter up! If you read this blog and you’re like, wow, her taste is music is spectacular and I’d really love to help her dreams come true and maybe get one of her mixtapes mailed to me, THIS IS FOR YOU.

Tracklisting and downloads after the jump.

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electrospazzpop;;

This mix is about how I can put Justin Timberlake in a mix but still keep my indie cred.

Why It’s Pretentious: This mix is less “pretentious” and more “train wreck.” In the summer of 2006, I made up my own genre of music called electrospazzpop;; with two Zs and two semi-colons. To this day, I’m not sure what I was thinking. At the time, I was also obsessed with a band called Drugscene. Until they renamed themselves The Beautiful & The Damned and I just couldn’t support them anymore. Also, the good music in this mix is ruined by A COMPLETELY RANDOM EIGHT MINUTE LONG DANCE REMIX OF THE BRAVERY’S “AN HONEST MISTAKE.” An honest mistake indeed.

Tracklisting and downloads after the jump.

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