do you have any songs that you associate with a memory/feeling/time period of your life upon hearing it? (1 Viewer)

[suki]

for me, i always get a nostalgic feeling when i listen to Permission to Dance by BTS to the time about a year ago when i was struggling with weight loss and body image. it also reminds me of the summer time and tennis, since that was when i listened to it the most. a most recent one is Way Back Home by Shaun that reminds me of September in 2021 when i felt lost, and this song really helped me get through. tbh some songs also make me remember the worst memories, but some others just remind me of how much i've grown as a person since then. whenever i listen to these songs, i feel like i'm teleported back in time and i'm reliving past memories but as a new me. these songs really helped me, and ig they made such a lasting impression on me that i define that part of my life through them instead of actual memories.. idek what i'm saying anymore but i just wanted to ask if anyone else has felt that before :DD or am i just crazy lmao

 

[athenaaa]

@Vikki this song

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[SnowWhite]

I have flashbacks for almost every song tbh. First half of 2018 was a torturing point in my life, and when I listen to songs released in that period, I vividly remember everything.

 

[ChiaraStar169]

Spoiler: TW: mention of SA

I can't listen to No by Meghan Trainor bc it came out at the time I was sexually assaulted. All I could think the next time I heard it was guilty thoughts like how I should've heeded her advice.

 

[mysteric]

pwf with middle school cringe (sorry), shoot me with high school stress, your name engraved herein for when I was cramming my extended essay last summer
I think saye is shaping up to another one for when I move continents later this year

 

[ChiaraStar169]

But on a lighter note, there are also songs that spark good memories. Most Girls by Pink reminds me of my sassy days of eighth and ninth grades, as well as other chart toppers around that time: Lady Marmalade (the cover; I'm not an oldie lol), Case of the Ex, etc. Oh! Also I Wanna Be Bad by Willa Ford. The message in that song was like looking in a mirror for me. lol

 

[suki]

I have flashbacks for almost every song tbh. First half of 2018 was a torturing point in my life, and when I listen to songs released in that period, I vividly remember everything.

same 😔

 

[suki]

Spoiler: TW: mention of SA

I can't listen to No by Meghan Trainor bc it came out at the time I was sexually assaulted. All I could think the next time I heard it was guilty thoughts like how I should've heeded her advice.

oh no! r u okay now?

 

[suki]

But on a lighter note, there are also songs that spark good memories. Most Girls by Pink reminds me of my sassy days of eighth and ninth grades, as well as other chart toppers around that time: Lady Marmalade (the cover; I'm not an oldie lol), Case of the Ex, etc. Oh! Also I Wanna Be Bad by Willa Ford. The message in that song was like looking in a mirror for me. lol

haha glad to hear that! <33

 

[ChiaraStar169]

oh no! r u okay now?

I mean... you never really get over trauma like that, you know? lol but I have gotten better over the years.

 

[suki]

I mean... you never really get over trauma like that, you know? lol but I have gotten better over the years.

yeah, i get that. it must have been a terrifying experience, but im glad you're getting better!

 

[ChiaraStar169]

I mean... you never really get over trauma like that, you know? lol but I have gotten better over the years.

also he came very, very close to doing the dirty, but I was able to get away before he had the chance to.

 

[ChiaraStar169]

yeah, i get that. it must have been a terrifying experience, but im glad you're getting better!

oh, it was! But the good thing is, justice has been served against him and he's on the sex offenders list now.

 

[suki]

also he came very, very close to doing the dirty, but I was able to get away before he had the chance to.

omg that's terrible. people like that should be in jail, and far away from others so they never try something like that again.

 

[AmysTeri]

Plenty, lol. There's this song by Evanescence called Haunted and I listened to it on repeat one summer in my teens while reading this really creepy horror fanfiction of FF8 and I can remember being extra creeped out by the story itself because of the song.

I associate Gee and Oh! with summers dancing around the house when I was in college.

I associate 2NE1's Ugly with my brief emo period while entering the workforce in 2014 lmao. Me and baby-adulting was an interesting time.

 

[izcream]

yes i have plenty of songs that i associate with a memory actually, they're mostly songs i listened to while i was travelling so they're all good memories

 

[suki]

yes i have plenty of songs that i associate with a memory actually, they're mostly songs i listened to while i was travelling so they're all good memories

that's good!

 

[Bopper]

EXO’s Let out the Beast. Xiumin’s introduction to the Kpop world was in a teaser back in January 2012 with what turned out to be that song

 

[eclipsoul]

hundred of 70s-80s songs that were played on my favourite radio station that no longer exists because they reformed it into some snoozefest 24/7 while lying to their audience with a big announcement that they're going to "improve". radio zet gold i will never forget you

 

[katzewurst]

Had a roomie who was really into Vashti Bunyan's stuff especially earlier ones so they are now very convenient way to travel back into the past