TUNE INTO WHAT MOVES YOU.

Since I’m a Certified Teenage Girl, people and society generally think I am obsessed with shallow pop music.

The thing is, they’re not entirely wrong.

There are categories of music I could group my tastes into. I’ll bold my favourite artists.

Basic Pop: These are artists like Shawn Mendes, Halsey, Ariana Grande, Ed Sheeran, Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Troye Sivan, Lorde, Zara Larsson. Basic stuff you could find on the radio.

Bedroom/Indie Pop: Some artists include mxmtoon, khai dreams, mimi bay, girl in red, Clairo, tiffi, and Lana Del Rey. These are great, underrated artists that I love.

Lofi: Mostly, there’s only one artist I exclusively like from the lofi scene: lando!. His beats are super cute and relaxing.

Pop-rock: I’m not super into this genre, but I generally like Fall Out Boy, Twenty One Pilots, and Panic! At the Disco.

Hip-hop/Rap: I’m aware that genre lines have increasingly blurred, especially recently, but I’m still counting Post Malone here. I also enjoy Cardi B, and I love the entire Spider-man: Into the Spiderverse album. Besides Sunflower, I also love Scared of the Dark by Lil Wayne and Ty Dolla $ign feat. XXXTENTACION.

K-pop: l love this genre because it includes so many different elements of music. I’m not like a fan of the bands themselves, I just love the music. If you had me identify BTS’s members, I couldn’t, but I would count myself as an ARMY. Other ones I love are NCT 127, NCT DREAM (NCTzen) , PENTAGON (Universe), TOMORROW X TODAY (MOA) , SEVENTEEN, GOT7, MONSTA X, and BlackPink (BLINK).

Soundtracks/Musicals: Hamilton. I hands down love the whole track. It’s legendary. I also like the La La Land soundtrack and, as aforementioned, the Spider-man soundtrack. In musicals, I really enjoy Dear Evan Hansen and Six. I used to listen to some songs from the Mary Poppins Returns soundtrack.