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Speaker 1 00:00:08 That's still in the blank by car seat headrest, the opening song on their 2016 album, teens of denial front man will Toledo leads the driving guitar into an angry sonically, dense chorus, where he sings quote, you have no right to be depressed. You haven't tried hard enough to like it haven't seen enough of this world yet, but it hurts and quote these lyrics ooze with teen angst melodramatic. Yes. True, definitely. And it's something my 16 year old self latched onto struggling with trauma, as well as just the regular stressors of high school. Fill in the blank as well as songs like Joe gets kicked out of school for using drugs with friends, but says, this isn't a problem. And the radio popular drunk drivers killer whales became songs I turned to regularly and teens of denial quickly became something of a comfort album at 20 I'm. Thankfully not struggling like I was at 16, but I come back to teens of denial from time to time, as well as newer comfort albums like scissors control and Fe Webster's. I know I'm funny. Haha. When I need them, they bring a sense of calm and consistency in a word. They make me feel less blank. I figured others had comfort albums they'd want to talk about I was right. Speaker 2 00:01:21 I think a comfort album in general is just some music. That always sounds good for me. Music wise, I tend to like almost phases of sorts and I just kind of like tend to rotate through them. I think it like a comfort album is just like, no matter what phase I'm in, almost it just always sounds good. You feel good? Speaker 1 00:01:42 That's Jasmine reef, McCormick, sophomore like me. She has a handful of comfort albums and she turns to different ones when she needs different things. Speaker 2 00:01:50 Last year I'm renegades by all time low at one just always hits different try-hard it's by the band Camino. I think also probably teenage dream by Katy Perry. Like it's old, but like some of the songs like Pearl and stuff that like didn't really get heard on the radio Speaker 2 00:02:14 Yeah, I think I kind of pick things more based on like my mood. So like if I'm feeling kind of like sad, then it's the band Camino or all-time low from just kind of like generally not feeling great. Then it's more Katy Perry. Speaker 1 00:02:26 We've said that when it comes to comfort music, it's all about a specific vibe. She likes to mix and match songs from her various comfort albums, creating more of a patchwork of comfort songs. Sam Kim Weiss Weinberg sophomore takes this approach even further with comfort Playlist's Speaker 3 00:02:42 I have a list of sad songs that I listened to. What I feeling sad and a list of happy songs that are listened to when I'm feeling sad about. I want to feel happier. My happy songs playlist is sing by Pentatonix donut. Feel good by Humphrey. I feel good by James Brown, you can sense a theme. Um, best day of my life, American authors rocking Robin vibe, puppy day, brave, but serverless and a perfect ability to develop. So kind of like a, uh who's who of like upbeat songs Speaker 4 00:03:17 And don't feel good. Speaker 3 00:03:19 I don't feel good as just like the lyrics first off. It's a really simple song, but then the lyrics also are very positive energy. So you're hearing the lyrics and the lyrics are telling you you're doing good, but it's also really clear and easy to follow. So you can actually internalize them. Whereas a lot of other happy songs, it gets so complicated. It's just music. Speaker 1 00:03:39 Time-wise explained that simplicity and emotion are what make a comfort song, a comfort song, more so than even lyrics. And while he's not obsessed with, Speaker 3 00:03:47 I don't have a soundtrack to my life. I just have music that I listened to Speaker 1 00:03:51 His comfort. Playlist's helped get him through any given day. Speaker 3 00:03:54 Those happy songs are really useful. I think the sad songs might be a little unhealthy. Like sometimes it's like, okay, let's just feel something. But the happy songs are really helpful just in terms of getting through a hard day or something, just pushing forward. Speaker 1 00:04:08 It makes sense like refund, time-wise say that collections of songs or playlists can invoke a certain mood or a sense of comfort, but it seems a comfort album. A pre-packaged fixed collection of songs is much rarer to find for this. I turned to Nate J room school of comm sophomore and big music guy Speaker 5 00:04:28 More often than not Sony's comfort album isn't necessarily an album that they would say is perfect or like the greatest album they've ever listened to. But it's like an album that you think is good, but it's more important. The emotional weight that it holds and the like emotions that it invokes in you. Like I think like two of my favorite comfort albums are in-between dreams by Jack Johnson and Floridian by Daniel Caesar. And I wouldn't even say they're perfect albums, but it's just the overall like energy and like emotion that they have in them. That those are albums that I'll just like put on. And I'll just next thing I know I've listened to the whole thing. I can put it on and know like that it's going to calm me down. Speaker 6 00:05:07 There's no combination though. It's like a boat on the back of a postcard. The song that I could sing Buddha, I can try it. Speaker 1 00:05:16 Or JRM the sound and feel of the music is what makes a comfort album, especially a sense of nostalgia. Speaker 5 00:05:21 Sometimes I'll just get obsessed with an album for like a given like month and then listen to it on like repeat a bunch. So that's usually how I come to like find a new comfort album. There'll be like an album that I just like am really into at that time. And I'll listen to it a bunch. And I think that kind of builds this comfort album feeling because then whenever I come back to that album, months later, it reminds me of that specific time. Ms. is addictive, no matter what it reminds you of. Speaker 1 00:05:49 So it seems comfort albums or playlist or songs are all about the feel. Maybe they remind you of a certain time in your life. Maybe they make you feel better when you feel Speaker 2 00:05:58 Bad. My head sometimes feels fixed and out of control carousel. And like then like the cover albums and comfort songs, um, kind of like slow it down. But the Speaker 1 00:06:08 Bottom line is that they're always there. Speaker 5 00:06:10 Music is just something that we put on to like score our lives. Like it's something that like, nobody wants to walk the, do their little 10 minute walk to class every morning and complete silence you put music on. And I think the importance of a comfort album is just that like, it's, it's like a sense of consistency Speaker 1 00:06:35 For w when you are news. I'm Alison rock.