Music Defines

I love how our lives are defined by music. 3EB's Semi-Charmed Life came on the radio the other day, and Scott and I yelled simultaneously, SOO 8th GRADE! I'm always amazed at the power a single song, melody, chorus, or phrase has to instantly scoop us up and put us right back in a memory of a summer, a relationship, a state of mind. For example,

Alanis - pretty much ANY song from Jagged Little Pill, aka the album of my adolescence, puts me right back on the bus to and from Jakarta International School. My friends and I listened to Ironic, Learn, and that song about the poor kid whose parents expect too much from her (shout out to Hannah for our angsty road trip sing-a-long to this song!)

Duncan Sheik - Barely Breathing. This was the first song I remember hearing on American radio after we moved back to the States. I listened to it over and over, probably in hopes that it would make me a normal American 8th grader, ha.





John Mayer - Split Screen Sadness. Oh man, straight back to junior riding around with Navita, when we would vent about our "tragic" boy situations. How sad were we??







Gavin DeGraw - Just Friends - countless sing-a-longs with JMo and Jaz










Matt Wertz - Sweetness in Starlight - on the first CD Scott gave me. Sorry to cheese it up.

So there you go, I suppose this might be the soundtrack of my life thus far. What music defines your memories?