Songs That Take Me Back

Isn’t it crazy how hearing a song can instantly take you back to a specific moment in your life? A song might remind you of driving with your friends in the summer with the windows down. Or maybe it brings you back to a certain moment with your family. Music has a way of freezing moments in time, and when that song plays again, it unlocks all of the feelings, sights, and sounds like it just happened yesterday. Music is like a personal soundtrack to life’s best (and maybe worst) memories. In this blog, I will be sharing some songs that take me back to a certain period of my life.

Post Malone’s “Hollywood’s Bleeding” Album

Unfortunately for my brother who drove with me to school every day in 2019 and 2020, I am the type of person that listens to a song I like over and over again until I get sick of it. And then when I rediscover it, I’ll repeatedly listen to it again. It’s a never ending cycle. This whole album I would listen to on the way to school, and Carter would beg me to change the music. Spoiler–I never did!! He probably hated it in the moment, but now he looks back on it positively. Over winter break when we were both home, I was playing a song from the album (shocker). He said (with a smile on his face) that it reminded him of driving to school every day together. See! Older sister knows best! I knew he would enjoy my playing of the same music every day eventually!!??

Big Girls Don’t Cry

This song also reminds me of a time with Carter. When we were younger, we would listen to this song all the time. In the car, my whole family would be singing the song, and I remember specifically this one line: “And I'm gonna miss you like a child misses their…” (cue Carter and I) … “blanket!!!” We would scream the word blanket in the back seat. I don’t know why we focused on that one word but every time I hear the song it takes me back!! I wish we could be that young again ??

Roxanne

Now this song might seem a little random, but it always reminds me of the time during Covid when school was cancelled. My school, along with I’m sure almost everyone else’s, got shut down in March of my junior year, and we didn’t go back until August. From that time that we thought we were getting an extra 2 weeks of spring break (little did we know) through the whole summer, my friends and I would hang out in our high school parking lot, drive around, and occasionally hang out at someone’s house. It was normally the high school parking lot because it was in a good middle point for my friends, and it was outside. We would make TikTok dances and Roxanne was one of the songs that we danced to. Despite Covid ruining our junior and senior year, some songs take me back to that time and remind me of how much fun I had being out of school for that long.

Turn My Swag On

I’m sure everyone knows this song… My family and I used to do rap karaoke on the TV in the basement. We would get so into it and it was so fun!! This is one of the songs that I remember doing on the rap karaoke. And now every time I hear it I think of that. There are so many other songs that remind me of doing the rap karaoke in the basement. It was so fun to hear everyone’s (horrendous) voices trying to sing the songs, but that’s what made it so fun!

Finding these songs that act as a time machine and take me back to certain moments was so fun. Looking through all my music and searching for songs that align with memories was cool to see how many songs remind me of specific points in time.

I hope you enjoyed this blog!