They explore the house (Perfect Places), and meets someone, who they are quickly infatuated with (Let’s Fall in Love For Tonight), and the two share a moment (Slow Dancing in the Dark).Įvery night, I live and die, feel the party to my bones Perfect Places, Lorde The next song sets the scene at a house party filled with teens from all over town, where the person at first feels uneasy with all of the raging and recklessness (Wish You Were Sober), then warms up as they begin to dance and gets lost in the music (Dance, Baby!, The Sound, Rager teenager!). My youth is the foundation of me, living life as an American teen American Teen, Khalid House Party They prepare to attend a party later that night (Talk Too Much), where they imagine fulfilling the stereotypical American teenager experience they’ve seen in in movies. The story begins with someone reminiscing on their childhood, envisioning earlier memories in different parts of their hometown, signifying the transition into their teenage years (Little League). Immerse yourself into this audible and visual experience by listening to the Spotify playlist in its specifically curated order, reading the descriptions according to each ‘scene’, scrolling through the Pinterest board, and using your imagination to create scenarios until you fall asleep. A coming of age soundtrack doesn’t have to comprise of songs that are seen in coming of age movies, it can comprise of songs that you know resonate in a certain way, that you know you want to encapsulate your own teenage years in. Whether you’re obsessed with Heroes by David Bowie because of The Perks of Being a Wallflower or Ribs by Lorde because of TikTok, there is no doubt that music has the power to intensify our feelings of wanting to experience a coming of age storyline. A huge part of the way we relate to of coming of age plots is the music that we associate with them there are certain songs that make you want to bike through a beach-town at night or run through an open field because you associate them with being free, with those feelings of wanting to be a careless teenager stuck in the middle of a high school movie.
From The Fault in Our Stars to The Outsiders, we have all been exposed to the ups and downs of the transition between childhood and adulthood because of movies that we spent our childhood years obsessing over. Generation Z has grown up with an array of coming of age stories right at our fingertips.
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