Our Big Scoop
Flat Hat Magazine staff have been trudging through time with the help of the songs here in this playlist. We may not be famous or worthy of big-time gossip, but here is our “big scoop.” Check out our playlist entitled “OUR BIG SCOOP” by scanning the Spotify code above or clicking the link on our website.
“Hypotheticals” by Lake Street Dive
“Hypotheticals” is the perfect song for a post-COVID-19 world. A little bit soul, a little bit funk, a little bit 80s synth-pop, this is a song about possibilities and new beginnings, and there’s nothing more joyful than that.
-Mary Trimble ’23
“L.A. (Looking Alive)” by Madison Cunningham
We all get caught up in the whirlwind of everyday life, going through the motions. The lyrics give you that chin-up and “Hey! Look alive!” that we all need sometimes.
-Mary Beth Bauermann ’24
“Not How It’s Supposed To Go” by Ashe
Ashe uses this track to fight her own passive self with an intensity that inspires me to do the same. We have to be the driving force in our own lives.
-Alyssa Slovin ’22
“Treat People With Kindness” by Harry Styles
A great motto to live by that reinforces the feeling of loving who you are and appreciating those around you. Feel free to dance away your worries.
-Sabrina El Shanti ’22
“Pay Your Way in Pain” by St. Vincent
St. Vincent is BACK baby and she’s here to remind you that choosing between surviving and dignity is what life is about. This song disorients and centres you simultaneously, in the ways that life’s struggles can shake us around but strengthen us all the same.
-Nina Raneses ’22
“Roll it Back” by LUTHI
Over the last year, I have been listening to anything with some good brass in it. “Roll it Back” by LUTHI scratches that itch and then some, with the vocalist’s smooth voice and the driving with the windows down screamability of the chorus.
-Rebecca Klinger ’22
“Talia” by King Princess
Not to be melodramatic, but this song reinforced the persistent melancholy within my nonexistent soul. Just kidding. It’s a bop and a half though.
-Gavin Aquin ’22
“Broken Clocks” by SZA
A flawless song with a beautiful meaning, the feeling of losing time while experiencing an imbalance between social and work life. The meaning of “Broken Clocks” foreshadows the importance of being independent.
-Bushra Bablu ’24
“Drivers License” by Olivia Rodrigo
A four-minute flashback to our high-school, pre-COVID-19 selves — to who we were when we learned the rules of the road and got our hearts broken for the first time. “Drivers License” reminds us it’s OK to miss people and better times — it’s OK to feel feelings.
- JR Herman ’24
“The Adults Are Talking” by The Strokes
The amount of joy this chorus gives me is indescribable. This song perfectly captures the frustration of being a young person and trying to be heard by the “adults” or authority figures in the room.
-Ellie Kurlander ’24
“Schizophrenia” by Sonic Youth
The key lyric here is “Schizophrenia is taking me home.” If schizophrenia is what takes him home, could anything on earth possibly compel him to stay there for an entire year as he wastes away in his crud-infested basement drinking ungodly amounts of RC Cola until everyone he has ever loved has forgotten about him entirely? We don’t know.
-Matthew Kortan ’22
“Our House” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Last year, my parents sold my childhood home; I moved across the Pacific to a country I had left eight years ago. This year, I’m in Williamsburg. My family is in three different countries. Home has always been a mindset, never a fixed location.
- Linda Li ’24
“Feathered Indians” by Tyler Childers
Country and alternative melt together beautifully in this upbeat, feel-good song. Childers captures the essence of cigarette-smoking, wanderlust young lovers while painting a vision of the rolling mountains of West Virginia. A perfect song to listen to while driving with the windows down and the volume up.
-Grace Olsen ’23