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Liz:

Welcome back to House Lights, your one stop shop for everything you need to hear about this week in the world of entertainment. As always, I'm your host, Liz Noss, joined by my beautiful, wonderful cohost Claire Donahoe. And the other night, I got wine drunk and stalked my mom's playlist. And I think that that just really made me think about how sacred our playlists are to us. So I'm gonna, you know, talk about it today.

Liz:

I really only plan the first one.

Claire:

I have a thing to say after the intro. It's like, I would hope.

Liz:

I have a you know, like, the podcast.

Claire:

Like a little right. You know, podcast podcast no. I keep saying podcast instead of playlist. You're gonna stalk your own playlist in front of everyone today on the podcast.

Liz:

You know what I found out? My mom does listen to Bad Bunny now because I put her on Bad Bunny.

Claire:

As she should.

Liz:

Let's go. Former Zumba instructor, she would. She would. She would. Everyone should.

Liz:

She would. So, yeah, I wanna, you know, I wanna get introspective, talking about playlists as a concept first, and then I wanna talk about our own playlists that we have. Okay. Well, go ahead. Alright.

Liz:

So there's this idea I don't know. I feel like we've always had, like, playlists of, like, what we're feeling at the moment. Right? But I think that there's been a sort of trend for, like, the last year or so. I mean, it's not new, where it's, like, hyper specific pod oh my gosh.

Liz:

I'm saying podcast now. Hyper specific playlist. Yes. Like, as a concept. Like, pretty much, if you search up anything, any sort of feeling you have, any situation Any noun.

Liz:

Any noun. Literally anything. You will find a playlist for it that's already been made for you or it sort of like captures this feeling that you have. So anyways, let's talk about that.

Claire:

Okay. How do you feel about that? I feel pretty good and I was actually gonna turn it right back over to you because we were just talking about this. Spotify makes you those super hyper specific what are they called? A list?

Claire:

So I don't have Spotify, which will let's rip the band aid off now. I'm an Apple Music girl. I have Spotify. Loud and proud. Thank you very much.

Claire:

But with that said, while Apple Music makes me playlists, like, here's what we think you'll like. Chill, chill playlist or like heavy rotation playlist, you know, the classics. I am very curious in the the day list because the titles I have seen for day lists are so specific that they're almost it's like a it almost feels like it's a competition. Like, the weirder the title, the cooler the playlist will be. Oh, yeah.

Claire:

My roommates are constantly showing me theirs. I've I've seen a lot of people post them on their stories when they get super bizarre. So do you wanna share your day list?

Liz:

Yeah. My my day list today, I was filling it up, is alternative pop pink Pilates princess Thursday afternoon.

Claire:

Exactly. So you see the point there. And I'm just gonna wipe my nose.

Liz:

Really not music that I listen to all that often except for Sabrina Carpenter. Oh, we got some beach money.

Claire:

So is it new stuff and your stuff?

Liz:

Yes. Okay. Perfect. Yeah. So it's kind of mixing a little bit of things that I've never heard of.

Claire:

Let's see

Claire:

if Apple Music gives me a daily because sometimes they do that. Well, I guess it wouldn't

Liz:

quite if we're if we're gonna talk about, like, Spotify playlists that are already premade for you

Claire:

Yeah.

Liz:

I really like the on repeat as well because that's basically, like

Claire:

Heavy rotation mix? Yeah. Favorites mix?

Liz:

What's on your on repeat right now? I'll give you my top four.

Claire:

Oh, okay. Skin by Dijon. Dijon? Yeah.

Liz:

That's Joe Curie. Right?

Claire:

No. That's Joe, DJO.

Liz:

Oh, k. Dijon like mustard? Yeah. K.

Claire:

Daydreaming by Aretha Franklin. And then all three of Jensen McCray's new releases from her upcoming album. And then some role model.

Liz:

Oh, what role model songs?

Claire:

Francis and Something, Somehow, Someday. That's on my heavy rotation mix.

Liz:

I have a little bit of Sally

Claire:

When the When the Wine Runs Out on my own repeat. Yeah.

Liz:

That's not my top four. My top four right now is Busy Woman, Sabrina Carpenter. Okay. Nueva Yo from Bad Bunny's album. Living Dead Girl by Rob Zombie, been really into a little bit of, like, heavy metal.

Liz:

And then Sports Car by Tate McCray, which they played at the RIV last night, by the way. Didn't think they were gonna do that.

Claire:

They updated their They updated their Concrete playlists.

Liz:

Also, you know, also they added? Abracadabra by Lena Carragh.

Claire:

Love it. And it was

Liz:

like in a row. And then they played Rush,

Claire:

literally my dream. And quickly before we continue, because she's not on any of my playlists yet because it is so so fresh and new, but everyone needs to listen to Grace Vanderwel's newest album. And before you say, the girl from America's Got Talent with the ukulele that

Liz:

was like Oh, I know. No. Mine ain't.

Claire:

Dragged all over the Internet for that. Yes. Yes. And you need to listen to it right now because it's phenomenal. And some of the songs that I've heard so far have led me to the conclusion that she is my, like, more indie alternative Tate McCray.

Claire:

Okay. Like, you'll know what I mean if you listen. Thank you.

Liz:

I don't think I have any new music recommendations.

Claire:

Oh, Apple Music will also give us some of those.

Liz:

Yeah. I love Taylor's is whimsical whimsy goth Thursday afternoon.

Claire:

A whimsy goth?

Liz:

What does that mean? What is whimsy goth?

Claire:

Except for the people I

Liz:

feel like it's Melny Martinez.

Claire:

It's like poetry. Like like it's like a, you know, dealer's choice, reader's interpretation. They they want you to do that.

Liz:

Bjork. Okay. That is Whimsy Goth. You're right. Yeah.

Liz:

Okay. Yeah. Bjork.

Claire:

Apple Music also gives you something called the Claire Donoho Station. I mean, on your phone, it would be your name station.

Liz:

I don't get the Claire Donoho. Think if

Claire:

you just click it. Do I have to pay more? Oh, and I just clicked it and pushing it down and praying is the first thing that comes up. So I'm gonna be done for today now. Thank you.

Liz:

So now I have to turn

Claire:

off my phone. It makes you little little stations, which I quite like. So not quite a day list, but close. What is the title of the playlist that you've been listening to most recently?

Liz:

Good question. But actually, can before we step away from Oh, please. Specific playlists as a as a concept, do you search specific playlists or do you make them?

Claire:

I usually make my own. I have very few friends on Apple Music. I don't really browse their profiles all that often, except my friend Adams, because he has really good playlists that he makes, like hyper specific ish ones. Not hyper specific, but short and they all encapsulate feeling very well. I tend to just make playlists out of necessity, like for driving or So you have like a like a driving playlist?

Claire:

Yeah. Or like one I have is like crying in the car, another one I have is like singing in the car. I'm not very I'm trying to get more creative like the

Liz:

a lot, I guess.

Claire:

Right. So I and I make them like to go on a run. I make them, you know, if I'm seeing a set list at a concert. So I just make them they're not super crazy. Or if I'm trying to recommend music to someone, I'll make them I'll send it in a little playlist package.

Claire:

So yeah, don't really search up hyper specific ones. If I do, it's very, very rare. And I will just kind of say I just don't think Apple Music has that same super niche playlist title game that Spotify has. Does,

Liz:

you know, because Spotify I feel like you can it's very social. Yeah. And like you can find pretty much anything I feel like on Spotify. Right.

Claire:

I don't like do a lot of browsing outside of my own Apple Music profile and what Apple Music is giving to me. I browse what they suggest and then the like three Apple Music followers that I have, one seriously just being like my friend Adam who we have very similar music tastes so that just works out. But I know on Spotify people really dig through other people's playlists and venture onto accounts they don't know. I Oh, yeah. Do.

Claire:

Don't do that. I just

Liz:

don't I also and I think once Reza gets on the podcast, we'll talk about, her stalking ability and then she does Oh, yeah. On Spotify.

Claire:

I mean, that's like an endless I mean pool of information.

Liz:

It's for me. You know so much about a person

Claire:

And you can see, like

Liz:

you know that there's when you know there's Spotify.

Claire:

Does Spotify also tell you, like like, Apple Music, if you click on someone's profile, there is a feature which you can disable. And I think it's little bit kind of weird when people disable it because I'm like, why did you turn that off? You can see what they're currently listening to.

Liz:

Yeah. It's fine if I can do that but

Claire:

What playlists they have.

Liz:

Oh, yeah. You can see the playlist in all of them. If they're you can do private playlists.

Claire:

So right. Which I'm familiar with because I have so so many playlists and some of them are a little bit. Like are they name dropping? Strange. Oh, certainly.

Claire:

Certainly there's like name drop playlists. And I'm not very vague with the titles like I said a couple minutes ago, so they're very to the point, and they do very much need to be privated. But we'll we'll go through our playlist names later.

Liz:

That's great. Yeah. I would love to know that on, off mic, whatever. Yeah. Yeah.

Liz:

Yeah. But, yeah, I do a little bit of both, a little bit of search and make Okay. Playlists. So, like, for I wanna talk about, like, the ones that we made in a second. Mhmm.

Liz:

But, like, most recently, you asked me what the names of the playlist I've been listening to Yeah. Are. It's a a bit of both. In my jump back in, there's one that I searched up called right person, wrong time, and another one that's called POV, he fumbled big time.

Claire:

Oh, so we're going there.

Liz:

So it's a little bit of

Claire:

So I will just share with you same So these are playlists that you searched Yes.

Liz:

Okay. So but there are different ones that I have made. Do you wanna do you wanna get into ours? Yeah. I would love to.

Liz:

Okay. Great. Go ahead. Also, have 23 followers on Spotify, so Wow.

Claire:

Okay. Wow. Mini Schoozers. My most recent playlist that if it was here, it would just be called April because it's just the songs I've listened to this month. Oh.

Claire:

I haven't made it yet. One I have in all caps is called Getting Better Guys exclamation point.

Liz:

Oh my god. I have one that's kind of like that.

Claire:

And I have one made around the same time last year with a very similar cover photo that's Getting Better Guys question mark. So I felt like that was kind of a full circle playlist creation.

Liz:

That's pretty recent. So one that's like kind of like that for me, it's called holy f word, get happy or else, sweating emoji, bomb emoji, devil emoji. Love it. Love it. And the picture of it, I don't know if you can see this, it's a it's a solitaire guy made out of solitaire cards.

Liz:

Amen. I have

Claire:

I have a playlist called Friends That Give, which was a Friendsgiving playlist. I have a couple that I made when I studied abroad, just like about different places we went. Hot. Oh, okay. Places.

Claire:

Hot, cool, and also hot. Those are songs that, you know, could dance on oh, and right under that, we have hot woman sobbing. So duality, a

Liz:

little bit. Yeah.

Claire:

Yeah. I pretend I play guitar. That's a good one. Classic in rotation. And then just some I have so many.

Claire:

I never delete them.

Liz:

I I just Oh, no. I never delete them. Have all the ones, like because, like, when I was in high school, I would just make a monthly playlist. But that stressed me out too much because I would force myself to listen to new music

Claire:

every single Yeah. He does, his top 10 songs. I have many with the word poem in them that I put on for writing. Not very creative. Oh, this is a good one.

Claire:

This is a playlist that I gave to someone long ago who was trying to get into more like indie music. And this is called ring wearer initiation playlist. I thought that was quite clever for the time. That was like at that What time it? It's like the Walters, Rex Orange County, it's like surf curse, glass animals, the front bottoms.

Claire:

Rainbow Kitsurprise. This is a good playlist. I mean, this is good stuff, especially for the end of circa

Liz:

'20 This is good stuff.

Claire:

Okay. Yeah. September the Strange, that was a good playlist. But, yeah, I do a lot of month ones. They're not super they're not super crazy.

Claire:

Yeah. That's that's kind of it.

Liz:

So number one, just wanna put out there, I'm the one that makes all the party playlists.

Claire:

Yeah.

Liz:

So I have a bunch of those Yeah. That are just like party themed stuff. Okay. So there's that. Getting that out of the way.

Liz:

Then I made, like, for places, there's one that I made for Europe last summer. Mhmm. And now I made a Puerto Rico playlist.

Claire:

Yeah. Oh, I have one of those too. Well, it's just called PR, not Puerto Rico.

Liz:

But Mine is called Puerto Rico.

Claire:

To make a playlist when I go somewhere. And I love to and I've heard people say this, this is not an original take here, but to listen to a new album, like, around the time that you're visiting somewhere because you'll always associate it with that.

Liz:

Exactly. And that's why I I'm not original, though, because I listen to Bad Bunny while I was in Puerto Rico.

Claire:

Right. Right.

Liz:

But, like, now I associate I would associate Bad Bunny in Puerto Rico anyways.

Claire:

Thank you for your

Liz:

honesty. Because he's from Puerto Rico. Anyways, but, yeah, I I have playlists that are just sort of, like, the vibe

Claire:

Yeah.

Liz:

Of that. I don't I don't know how to one's called Open Notebook. It's, like, kind of sad, kind of introspective. Lotta Liz McAlpine. By the way, on the Puerto Rico play this is what I was gonna say.

Liz:

Puerto Rico playlist, I do have the movie Rio soundtrack on there. And I know that that is a different country continent entirely. And, like I just wanna, like, put that out there that I didn't know that.

Claire:

And a different language as well.

Liz:

And also a different language. Yeah. But it fits the vibe. Okay. Beach.

Claire:

This is so so off topic, but what you just said reminded me. Last night, I watched Bridesmaids for the first time and For the

Liz:

first time? Yeah. That's one of my favorite companies.

Claire:

It's very very good but the scene where they go to the Brazilian restaurant

Liz:

Oh, yeah.

Claire:

And we had subtitles on and and they they say multiple times we're going into a Brazilian restaurant, There's the flag of Brazil, like, ever like, it's hello. And the waiter walks up and the subtitles say, speaking in Spanish, and then says the words. And I'm like, so that's not we just Hit

Liz:

them. Hit them, was it?

Claire:

I just sighed. Was like, guys.

Liz:

Yeah. That's great. I love Learn the

Claire:

languages of the world. I mean, I don't know all of them,

Liz:

but Learn the languages. The languages. English. Putting a Rio's soundtrack.

Claire:

Me who knows a little bit of Spanish from Duolingo. Thank you.

Liz:

I know a little bit of French from high school.

Claire:

And high school French. Yeah.

Liz:

But, yeah. Rio's on that playlist. By the way, Bridesmaids is a great movie for when you're feeling upset because you're like, it could always be worse. Yeah. You could always be Kristen Kirsten Wigg in

Claire:

Yeah. Yeah.

Liz:

That movie who just has, like, the worst life ever, but anyways. But, yeah, then there's, like, my emotional ones that are, like there's one that's just called Oh My Stars Mhmm. And that was about, like, a specific thing Mhmm. That happened. And then there's, like, whatever happens, I'm letting it.

Liz:

And the picture is of this this meme that I saw, and it's a camel strapped into a zipline. Oh my god. Because he's just gonna whatever happens, he's letting it. And I kinda feel like that. Yeah.

Liz:

But, yeah, I have one that's specifically for tennis called Hitting Burners and the picture is of my my husband from Challengers.

Claire:

You've got good covers too.

Liz:

Oh, yes. I love a good cover. I have one that's specifically all, like, RuPaul disco. That's crazy. She just showed me a bald Jimmy Fallon.

Claire:

That's called You Are Delusional With the Kissy emoji. But anyways, I

Liz:

wanna know your favorite playlist.

Claire:

Favorite that I've made That

Liz:

you've made.

Claire:

That I, like, listen to the most or, like

Liz:

I just wanna also wait. Also, like, I don't know. My titles are also kinda abstract. Okay. So I have it's snowy and I lost my coat.

Liz:

Oh. That's a vibe. Poem of the day. Oh, I thought

Claire:

you had a playlist called poem of the day. Did you see my eyes light up? No. That should be my next playlist title. Thanks, Liz.

Liz:

You're wrong.

Claire:

See, I'm not very creative on

Liz:

my own. But, yeah, there's one that's called, like, femcel range.

Claire:

Oh, I have one called shackles of this mind, and it's, like, songs like that.

Liz:

No. I have one called dirtbag. Oh. But, yeah. So I think on the topic of favorite playlist, I think Dirtbag is probably one of my favorites.

Liz:

Okay. It's a picture of me taking a shot. Do you mean favorite playlist title? Favorite playlist period of, like, the music.

Claire:

Oh, you like the curation?

Liz:

Yeah. And, like, oh, just, the vibe. Like, I like my dirtbag playlist because it's got, like, front bottoms, Penelope Scott. It's just, like, very much, like, oh, I'm the antagonist kind of vibe, but also, like, cool and, like, kinda, like, grungy.

Claire:

Okay.

Liz:

So, yeah, I got, like, Penelope Sky. I got, like, Mountain Goats, Frito Disco, Miniature Tigers, a little bit of Marina. Mhmm. Mhmm. There's this one artist I'm pretty sure I'm the only person that listens to this artist called Blegh, b l e g h.

Liz:

Blegh.

Claire:

I feel like I've heard of him.

Liz:

Okay. A little bit of yeah. Yeah. Liana Firestone, Death Grips, Role Model, has a couple dirtbaggy kind of songs. Mhmm.

Liz:

Mhmm. But yeah.

Claire:

Yeah. I need to inspire about, like, doing ones for, like, the vibe.

Liz:

Also, jazz playlist. Oh. And I like my jazz playlist because it's called jazz for jazz time and then in parentheses and blues. I'm not sure I know the difference. And And then the picture is me in middle school playing the trombone in an all Harry Potter fit.

Claire:

Okay. Oh. With my iPhone four as my god.

Liz:

Peeking out.

Claire:

You look so like, you're grinning. Like, yeah, know.

Liz:

I'm just, like, saying, okay. Maybe maybe she just got first chair. You don't even know. Alright.

Claire:

I'm gonna say mine that I'm can scroll through and see. I have a playlist that says Shut Up in all caps and it's a picture of someone like laying face down in like a lake or something. And it's every song that I feel specifically in a more like emotional context that I feel like I could have written. Like, songs that when I heard them, was like, how did you know?

Liz:

It's Oh, yeah. I have a playlist called Yeah. That's literally called songs I should have written.

Claire:

Like, how do they know? I feel all these with my chest. Just for example, the top one is Night Shift. And then we get into like Free Now by Gracie Abrams. Like it's that kind of vibe.

Claire:

But it's songs that Vampire Empire by Adrian Lanker is on there. We got a lot of Boy Genius, Ladiliz McAlpine. So that one's good because I really feel like it's it packs a punch. Playlist called September the Strange. I just liked all the songs that I put on there.

Claire:

And then I have this playlist called May that I made when I got home the summer after freshman year. And I don't know what it was about that school year, but I was just really ready to go back home for the summer and, like, take a break. And that was the playlist that I made. And I just remember, like, the first couple weeks of being home, the vibes were so high and, like, spring was back. And I just played that playlist every day.

Claire:

And when I listen to it now, I feel those same things. So I guess for like the emotional connection

Liz:

Well, that's why I

Claire:

like I why Midwest email playlist, like Love. Songs from the Garage. Blow my allergy nose now.

Liz:

Songs from the Garage is what it's called? No. But

Claire:

that's what it should be

Liz:

I'm like, that's a sick playlist.

Claire:

See, that's what it should be called. Like, I could do better. I just this is really affirming to me that I need to

Liz:

I feel like my dirtbag playlist is basically, like, Midwest emo. Yeah. Yeah. I guess I wanna point

Claire:

out one more Okay. That I have as well. Then should we bring in

Liz:

And then we'll bring in

Claire:

our people. We have a couple guests.

Liz:

The one that you because you were, like, saying, like, oh, you can feel those feelings again. Well, I made one specifically for that called my checkered past. Oh. Talked about this. And it's my seventh grade through tenth grade playlist, or just, like, all, like, really the the highlights truly.

Claire:

You couldn't pay me to make one of those?

Liz:

And it's, like, I totally bit the bit from my roommate Mia, who's a lot funnier and smarter What? I I bit the bit. Like, this was her bit to make her checkered past playlist and then put a picture over it. It's like an old picture of you from high school that's, like, with a bunch of words over it that is it, like, all in red? And it says she thinks she's so cool and quirky because she listens to the strokes and tame Impala, and she listens to a lot of underground bedroom pop.

Liz:

But what she doesn't know is that she just finished her seventh fan fiction of the month, and fan fiction is spelled p h a n, as in Dan and Phil. Oh my god. And the playlist starts with Black Bear.

Claire:

And with that, we're gonna bring in our coworkers.

Liz:

Bring in our people.

Claire:

We're gonna leave you with that.

Liz:

All right. So Carly, thanks for coming on the pod to share

Claire:

Thanks for having me.

Liz:

A little bit of your music taste and playlist. So tell me a little bit about your relationship first to like very specific playlist and give me some of your examples.

Carli:

So I, like, literally listen to everything. Like, I don't have a specific, like, artist or genre that I like. Like, I literally listen to everything. But I would say mainly I listen to a lot of, like, two thousands music.

Liz:

Okay.

Claire:

Lately, it's been a lot

Carli:

of r and b. Rihanna is probably, like, one of my favorite all time artists. So I like a lot of stuff by her and then, just, like, literally random. Like, my my Spotify will like, if you know how if you play one song, it'll, like, shuffle ones after that? And, like, I anytime I play a Rihanna song, everything that plays after it, I'm just like, oh, I love this.

Carli:

So my favorite playlist that I

Claire:

chose was actually, it's made by Spotify. It's not made by

Liz:

me. Okay.

Carli:

But it's titled two thousands r and b mix. And I've just been listening to it a lot. It's got, like

Liz:

What's some of the standouts?

Carli:

A lot of Nelly Furtado. I love her. Cassie, Jordan Sparks, Justin Timberlake, Timberland. Anything Timberland is just so good.

Claire:

That's crazy. So good. I never heard that name of the year. I know because no one listens to this type

Carli:

of music. Like, I'll put it on in my car and, like, none of

Claire:

my friends know the songs.

Carli:

And I'm like, it's just so good. So that's definitely my favorite.

Liz:

Love. Okay. So are you more of like a let Spotify pick for me specific playlist person? Or are you like, make your own?

Carli:

I I do make my own, but like, I feel like they're so short. It's like the same ten, twenty songs. And I'm like, I'd rather just have Spotify do it because it knows me so well. Right.

Liz:

And so

Carli:

I just hit play and then it plays the songs and I'm like, wow, Spotify, you're better at

Claire:

this than I am, like, making

Carli:

playlists because it just, like, knows what I wanna hear. Yeah. I'm talking about Spotify like it's a person.

Liz:

No. I like, thank you, Spotify.

Claire:

What is your most embarrassing playlist title of ones that you have made? Or like if we saw it on your phone, we'd be like, what?

Liz:

What does that mean?

Claire:

I one that I made, I just titled weird music mix that only I would like

Carli:

because it's just like a bunch

Claire:

of random songs. But there was one I

Carli:

was scrolling through here. I was like,

Claire:

I don't remember when I saved this. But oh gosh. No. Oh, yeah. Making up fake scenarios in your head about the boy that who doesn't like you back for days when it's starting to get warmer, you're driving windows down with music blaring, and you're wishing you were 16 again.

Claire:

That's the whole title?

Carli:

That's right. Oh my god.

Claire:

I didn't I didn't make it, but I have it saved. So, obviously, I was, like, listening to it at some point. But

Liz:

And the second song being Island in the Sun by Weezer. Sorry. I'm just looking over your shoulder.

Claire:

I'm like, that's crazy. It's so random.

Carli:

Like and

Claire:

I was going through. Was like, I don't even know how have these songs. I don't know why I saved it, but I guess I was just like,

Liz:

in the feeling that. Yeah. Hate that. That's okay. You sharing Wow.

Claire:

But I don't even remember saving it, honestly. I'm I was laughing at it when I read it. I was like, what was I doing? That I was, like, in the space of my life. And that's the beauty of playlist title is it really brings you to a place you're not even familiar with.

Liz:

What guy what guy makes you save a playlist full of songs you don't even know?

Claire:

Yeah. Wow.

Liz:

You're just, like, really zoning out.

Carli:

Yeah. I really was. But other than that, my other embarrassing one that I

Claire:

wanted to share was my Glee playlist.

Carli:

Oh. Okay. Yes.

Liz:

Embarrassing at all.

Claire:

Okay. Well, some people, I guess, would say it's embarrassing because sometimes I'll be driving. My friends

Carli:

are like, what is this? And I'm like, you just don't get it.

Claire:

You don't know Glee.

Carli:

Like, you don't get it.

Liz:

What's your favorite Glee cover?

Carli:

I don't know. I really like Closer. Jake sings it. Okay. And

Claire:

I love Jake. I actually do have a playlist saved of just Jake songs because I just think he's so good at singing. So that's like a spin off of the Glee playlist. I have one called Jake Puckerman's songs because his voice is incredible. I didn't make it, but I saved it.

Liz:

So Okay.

Carli:

Okay. Another good one.

Liz:

That's amazing. I love that. Yeah.

Claire:

Do you guys watch Glee?

Liz:

So, yeah, I used to watch Glee. I had a little bit of a phase.

Carli:

It's a good show.

Liz:

What's the one where the the cello person's in the middle and it's like, Anya, are you okay?

Claire:

Are you okay? Oh my gosh.

Liz:

The Smooth Criminal. I'm like, that why can't I think of the song It's

Carli:

so good.

Liz:

The Smooth Criminal one. That's my favorite.

Carli:

Yeah. It's so good. I listen that one's

Claire:

on this playlist. I listen to that a lot. But sometimes I do work out to glean music, I will say.

Liz:

It's like

Carli:

it's a good shin playlist.

Liz:

Yeah. Love that. Yeah. It gets you hype.

Claire:

Yeah. It does. It's fun. Last one I wanted to mention.

Liz:

Yes.

Carli:

I don't know have you guys watched Stranger Things?

Liz:

Yes. Yes.

Claire:

So you

Carli:

know when Max is stuck in the Upside Down and they play running in

Claire:

that up that

Carli:

hill Yeah. Like she runs out or whatever? So Spotify has an Upside Down playlist. So it made me an Upside Down playlist. So these are the songs that would play if I was in Upside Down.

Carli:

I was trying

Claire:

to escape Vecna. They made me a playlist of it, which is so That's good.

Carli:

Yeah. And it also, like, updates. So this is, like, I guess what would like, what

Claire:

I would escape with right now. But I remember when I first added it, it was, completely different songs. Oh my god.

Carli:

So it's, like, it's just like everything.

Liz:

Your music taste changes so much over time.

Claire:

Yes.

Carli:

Yeah. But the first song is Girls on Film by Duran Duran.

Claire:

Love that

Liz:

song. That's real. That song

Claire:

would save me.

Liz:

Love sports car would get you a

Claire:

new song. I mean, certainly.

Carli:

Anything by Pink. Wow. Again, Timbaland.

Claire:

Oh, Nokia by Drake.

Liz:

I've been really into that song recently. Same.

Carli:

But yeah. Tame Impala, Is It True? That's, like, my current hyperfixation. I listen to it, like, three times a day.

Liz:

I was just listening to well, I feel like when the sun comes out.

Claire:

Yeah. I listen to it. Yeah.

Liz:

Like, I was listening to mind mischiefs the other day. I was like, oh my god. This is such a vibe.

Claire:

It's such a vibe.

Liz:

Well, thank you for thank you for coming and sharing. Yeah. Thanks for letting me share

Claire:

my music, Thank

Liz:

you.

Carli:

Now you guys have to look at your upside down playlist.

Claire:

I know. I don't Spotify, I'll

Liz:

make my Yeah.

Claire:

You can just make it in your heart. Yeah. Right? Thanks, guys.

Liz:

Thanks. Rael. Hi. Our environmental reporter, thank you so much for coming on the pod.

Reiel:

Thank you for having me.

Liz:

So tell me your tell me about your specific playlist first. So, like, what is your relationship to it? Like, what like, do you have a lot of specific playlists? Do you make them? Do you search them up?

Reiel:

I mostly make them if it's specific to me and my experiences. Yes. I don't know. I think all of my playlists are just oddly specific to, like,

Liz:

my experiences and stuff. Well, tell us.

Claire:

Tell us. Is share maybe your favorite title

Reiel:

or My favorite title has to be I love the way it feels to be a hater.

Liz:

Oh. Oh, that's good.

Reiel:

Basically, like, all of these songs aren't necessarily, like, hateful. They just, like, remind me of people I very strongly dislike, and I just get so

Claire:

mad looking.

Liz:

So even the songs are very sweet.

Reiel:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I have, like, Euphoria by Kendrick Lamar in there. Mhmm.

Reiel:

I love that song. That song kind of inspired me to be like, wait. What if I just make a whole playlist where I'm feeling very hateful? Love that.

Liz:

I think I have a couple playlists like that. Just angry girls. Really? Yeah.

Reiel:

I have Therefore I Am by Billie Eilish. That one isn't necessarily like I mean, the song itself is kind of like petty, but it just reminds me of a person I very strongly dislike. Yeah.

Claire:

I like this concept.

Reiel:

And then Better Than Revenge by Taylor Swift. You have to put that one in there.

Liz:

Oh, yes, Ian.

Carli:

That's good one.

Reiel:

Yeah. Yes,

Liz:

Spring Breakers being on the hateful playlist.

Reiel:

That's interesting. I was it was funny. I like it's not even related to the person. I was listening to the song while I got it, like, a text that kinda triggered it all and I was like, oh my gosh. Love that.

Reiel:

So that's I think that's my favorite specific one that

Liz:

I have. Okay. Mari, awesome.

Claire:

Do you have a most we asked Carly of this do you have a most embarrassing playlist title or a playlist title that if we saw on your laptop would be like, oh, wow. What is that that you're willing to share?

Liz:

That you're willing to share, of course.

Reiel:

I don't know. I have I have one called I don't know. I have one that's specifically for High School Musical with like a fire emoji. Okay. Like it's like my hype playlist.

Liz:

No. Actually so crazy because I feel like Karly's was very much on like she said her Glee playlist was the most embarrassing soup. Yours is the High School Musical.

Reiel:

Yeah. And then, like

Liz:

That's embarrassing.

Reiel:

You know how Spotify has, like, the little, like, subhead they can have? It's, like, hype favorite. Like, that's what I have under my High School Musical one because I love High School Musical so much but, like, I don't think

Liz:

Which one's your favorite?

Carli:

If we're going based off the

Reiel:

songs, the second one. But the first movie is the best one.

Liz:

See, that's crazy because I think third one, like, is my favorite. Really? It has Scream 16. Can I have this dance? I want it all.

Liz:

I want it all. Sorry. Not just at

Reiel:

one. Good.

Liz:

I'm lot. Hello? Anyways, sorry. I just get very I'm very passionate about High School Musical.

Reiel:

Period. No. Me too. Me too.

Liz:

Awesome. Well, thank you so much for coming on and sharing some of your playlist. Yes. Brendan, thank you so much for coming on to talk about your music. We see it all the time on your Instagram story.

Liz:

We see you're you're one of the biggest contributors to the the party playlist.

Brendan:

Mhmm.

Liz:

So I'm right in here a little bit. This is your first podcast, by the way. Just throwing that out there. Let's go house lights.

Claire:

Yeah. Welcome.

Liz:

Welcome. But, yeah, tell me a little bit about your relationship with very specific playlists. Do you make them yourself? Do you search them up? What's the vibe?

Brendan:

So I've got a bunch of playlists. I make them myself, and a lot of them are, like, mood focused. Like, I've got butt rock bangers, and that's got stuff like three days grace and, like what else we got in here? Like, creed, breaking Benjamin. Like, not it's, like, it's not good, but, like, sometimes I'll be in the gym and, like, I wanna listen to some butt rock.

Brendan:

Like, that's

Claire:

that's a

Liz:

good one. What is

Claire:

that even what

Liz:

is Is that stuff like a genre? Is That's just something you made up. Right?

Brendan:

Butt rock? I I don't know. Maybe it's just something me and my friends, like, refer

Liz:

to it.

Claire:

Okay. You're ready here first, guys.

Brendan:

It's like, you know, three doors down.

Liz:

I get the vibe of

Brendan:

what we're going for.

Liz:

Yeah. Fuck cherry. Let's go.

Claire:

Yeah. Fuck cherry. It's not it's not that good.

Liz:

It's like Nickelback would fit on this Okay. Sort of playlist, I guess.

Claire:

But you make most of your playlist yourself? Like, you

Brendan:

don't search up like a No. I actually mood. Okay. I don't save, like, anybody else's playlist. Like, I have my own and then, like, collaborative playlist that, like, my friends and I will make together.

Brendan:

Okay. Collaborative. Like, we've got one. It's, like, songs to frag your lieutenant to, and it's just, like, a bunch of, like, Vietnam music. Like That's awesome.

Brendan:

Okay.

Liz:

What is on that? Like, what Vietnam music?

Brendan:

So alright. Let me find that one.

Liz:

Like, is it, like

Brendan:

Me and my old roommate.

Liz:

Fortunate Son, like Yeah.

Brendan:

It's it's Fortunate Son, Three Dog Night, Grand Funk Railroad, Steppenwolf, The Animals, Paul Paul Simon.

Liz:

And then just, like, Paul Simon in the intro.

Brendan:

You know, American Woman by The Guess Who, like, it's

Liz:

Just, like, super American.

Brendan:

Stuff you'd hear in in the seventies on the radio.

Liz:

I like that. I like that. So what is your, like, favorite playlist or favorite playlist title that you have?

Brendan:

So my favorite playlist, I listen to it the most often. It's called Goose Core. And Goose is my dog for those who are uninitiated. I I love that thing.

Liz:

That's insane.

Brendan:

The the picture is, like, a a point five photo I took of him, and he's, like, looking up at the the camera like that. And this I I actually can't say I made this playlist because it was a daily mix, and I was like, this is straight gas.

Liz:

This is so goose.

Brendan:

So I well, I just named it Goosecore because, like, I like the dog and I also like this music. There really is no relation between

Liz:

the and type of goose?

Brendan:

No. It's

Claire:

I mean, I songs that reminded you of your dog. Okay.

Brendan:

It could be Giving Goose. It has, like Like,

Liz:

would Goose listen to this?

Brendan:

I don't know what he would listen to. He's a dog. Okay. It

Liz:

could be Giving Goose. Okay. Because, like, I feel like I have a cat named Brad. I feel like I know what kind of music Brad would listen to.

Brendan:

This the the music on this playlist is, like, all over the map. Okay. So, like Okay. I've got Slayer, and then right after it is Every Morning by Sugar Ray. Okay.

Brendan:

And they're very contrasting music. Like, those are not two songs that belong on a playlist together. Mhmm. Spotify put them one after

Claire:

the other, and I thought that was great. Gas.

Brendan:

Yeah. Gas, as I had described it. But then I added more to it. So it's beyond just a Spotify playlist.

Liz:

It's collaborative. You elevated it.

Brendan:

I elevated it. I made it my own.

Liz:

Now, do you have a most embarrassing or, like, one that if we, like, looked over on your phone, we'd be like, what is that?

Brendan:

Yeah. I I made one as a joke. You already saw it. You glanced over and you started laughing.

Claire:

I I actually Yeah.

Brendan:

So I made this one as a joke back in

Claire:

I'm scared.

Brendan:

02/2020. It's titled sex playlist, and it's the cahoots song. No. 49 times with one Beverly Hills by Weezer. It's a perfect two hours long.

Liz:

It's Wow.

Brendan:

Yeah. Thank

Liz:

you. The

Brendan:

cahoot lobby.

Claire:

That note, thank you so much for coming on the podcast today,

Liz:

Brendan. Really yeah. No. You can't come back. Wow.

Liz:

Yeah.

Brendan:

I've had some people because, like, it's public on my Spotify.

Claire:

I was gonna ask you, like, if you like if you If you are like a playlist privater or if

Brendan:

you just You can see everything I make. There's like a lot of playlists that like I forget that I made and they're just redundant.

Claire:

Yeah. Yeah.

Liz:

Yeah. That one Such as certainly is

Claire:

as that one.

Brendan:

Yeah. This one I don't think I've listened to it since probably since I made it. Right.

Liz:

I don't

Brendan:

think I've ever listened to

Carli:

it all

Liz:

was gonna say, feel like you wouldn't listen to it all the way through. You wouldn't get to Beverly Hills? You know, I mean, it'd just be like a lost cahoots

Brendan:

to listen to. A Beverly Hills roulette, like, you put

Liz:

it on shuffle. Oh, yeah.

Brendan:

That's crazy. That was, like, the gag with it when I had made it.

Claire:

Okay.

Brendan:

Wow. You put it on shuffle and, like, you just gotta wait for Beverly Hills to come on. You know?

Liz:

That's awesome. Thanks, Brendan, for coming on today. Absolutely. Yeah. Of course.

Liz:

Had a great time. Alright. Awesome. Taylor is in front of the camera. Yay.

Liz:

Our wonderful podcast coordinator, we convinced them to come to the other side. I know that they're very nervous about the equipment on the other side, but you know what? We're gonna get through it. I promise. Yeah.

Liz:

So tell us about your playlist, Taylor.

Taylor:

I I don't even know

Taylor:

where to start. I mean, I have I like to say, like, if I press start new playlist, it'll be, like, 314. So I have a lot of playlists. Okay.

Claire:

Love

Taylor:

that. And I even got so desperate as to start putting them into folders. Because you can only do that on desktop, so it's very inconvenient.

Liz:

Oh. Oh, so you spend time?

Taylor:

I sometimes sporadically. I spend time sporadically.

Claire:

Just it some like maintenance. Yeah. So it's like I'll have like aesthetics,

Taylor:

I have situational, like these are folders. Mixes by others, work in progress ones. Okay. And then what like sorted by specific artists. So when I I used to never listen to albums until like five years ago or so.

Taylor:

And then I was like, you know what? Albums are actually kind of good. Why am I not listening to albums? But before that, I would organize like songs I like from artists. Like I wouldn't listen to their albums.

Taylor:

I would put them like I have like

Liz:

a No, that's real though, because I don't think I didn't do that until recently.

Taylor:

Yeah. And sometimes I would have fun like putting them in order and like making albums for them. I'm like, actually,

Liz:

this is

Taylor:

a good album. Like this track Yeah. And then I have my personal archive. Right? So I have my oldies mix.

Taylor:

This is a random child. That's not me. It's a random it's a random baby. But it's Taylor's master mixtape. All the oldies.

Taylor:

My music taste from when I only listen to the radio.

Liz:

Oh, that's

Taylor:

good. So it's, you know, like Charlie Puth.

Liz:

Okay. Oh, okay. That's good. Oh, so that's not good. It's not good.

Carli:

So it's

Claire:

like Charlie Puth.

Taylor:

The, like, radio songs, like when we were growing up.

Liz:

Yeah. Yeah. Like, hashtag selfie chainsmokers. Yeah.

Taylor:

Green Day, you know, it's like and it's like from all the different stations too.

Reiel:

So it's like

Taylor:

rock and pop and Oh

Claire:

my god. This is incredible.

Liz:

And then okay.

Taylor:

I guess if you're going to the cry playlist, would be I would like to cry please or at least be very nostalgic and dramatic.

Claire:

That's a good title.

Liz:

And what kind of music's on that?

Taylor:

That is electronic. Superhero songs. Or slash low key, don't even know.

Liz:

Like low fi beats?

Taylor:

It's not low fi beats. Well, it's really like it's not by genre, I guess. It was bad to start it by electronic. That's why the title says what the vibes are.

Liz:

Okay. I wanna know about the situational ones.

Taylor:

Yes. If you wouldn't mind sharing. Situational is more like like Christmas. Right?

Claire:

Or, like, it's it's raining. Oh.

Taylor:

Or, like, it's it's morning mix.

Liz:

Okay.

Taylor:

Or shower or it's snowing or workout stuff.

Liz:

Now what if you take a shower in the morning? What's that? Cut that out, Taylor.

Taylor:

I got it. I

Liz:

I What do you I

Taylor:

I don't It's just what I feel like. Right?

Liz:

Yeah. Feel like.

Claire:

That's why there's options. That's why

Liz:

there's so many options. Yeah. I love them. Do you

Claire:

have a favorite title out of all of your playlists that you have either downloaded or you've created yourself. I feel like you're more in the camp of creating your own, correct me if I'm wrong. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

Claire:

Do you have a favorite title?

Taylor:

It's been so long since I've been naming. I've taken a break. Highest from actually making playlists like it's laborious. Yeah, the longest place I've made recently is like an hour long, which is not that long for me. And it's not like well curated.

Taylor:

Like I'll do like multiple takes through it, you know, and cut out things that I put in initially was like, The curation is crazy. But I guess if I had to pick a name, would say just something simple, I guess. I'll just go for like something recent and simple, which is my prom royalty playlist. I like that name. I think it's cute.

Claire:

What's on there?

Taylor:

That mean? It's like cute cute like It's cute.

Liz:

Some of them are

Taylor:

like baby girl vibes, you know? There's some Rina Sawayama,

Liz:

you know? Okay.

Taylor:

She's got some bangers. Some Choice of Vaughn.

Liz:

Oh, that's so baby girl. But is it blue is it Blue Neighborhood Choice Vaughn? Or is it just

Taylor:

finished that album. Yes. And some Renee Rap. Someone gets hurt. That's very prom royalty.

Liz:

Okay. Love that. Okay.

Claire:

Nice. And then do you have a embarrassing slash questionable title? Like, if we saw I

Taylor:

actually have literally a playlist called questionable.

Liz:

Oh, okay.

Taylor:

Literally called that. Like,

Liz:

the music taste, like the taste is questionable? Or like the actions that you're thinking about while you're listening to the music is questionable?

Taylor:

I guess. Yeah. It's like a mix of both. Right?

Liz:

It's kind

Taylor:

of like this is, like, weird, like, deep cut. Like, you gotta know me. You gotta know me to, like lore.

Liz:

Yeah. Okay. I should make one like that. Mhmm. That's good.

Liz:

Like, in, like, me specific music. I see that.

Claire:

I have a Claire Danahoe's, like, all time best hits or favorite hits of just my favorite songs throughout the years. But that's kind of right there for you. I need one that's a little more

Liz:

Yeah. Gotta work. Your deep cuts.

Claire:

Yeah. You gotta work.

Taylor:

Actually, that actually reminds me of one that I wanted to bring up, which was the My Life's copyrighted movie soundtrack. Okay. So, and I actually write a lot of these titles or playlists have descriptions. So this description is a collection of songs of different vibes from scenes in a movie of my life. One of the few playlists that is meant to be listened to in order.

Taylor:

Okay.

Liz:

So that's what that was gonna be my next question. Is it like so it's like in order of, like, your actual, like, life?

Taylor:

Well

Liz:

It's not just giving, like, my life some movies?

Claire:

Like, it's in order of the movie. I don't know if it's

Liz:

Like, you start baby.

Claire:

Yeah. It's in order of the movie, not necessarily my life.

Taylor:

The movie doesn't have to be chronological. Okay.

Liz:

Oh, wow. But they're, like, scenes. Yeah. They're snippets of your life. Yeah.

Liz:

Yeah. I love that.

Claire:

This is incredible.

Liz:

Well, thank you, Taylor. Of course.

Claire:

Taylor, thank

Liz:

you so much. Be on the side.

Claire:

Yeah. You're an excellent podcaster. Wow. And Alright. We thank you for joining us on

Liz:

House this And thank you for joining us on House Lights this week. Next week will be my and yours last ever House Lights. It's big stuff. Big stuff. Big stuff.

Liz:

See you next week. Bye.

Claire:

Bye.