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Headphones Baby - The Vaccines

The Vaccines always have a way of making people believe they are teenagers while listening to their music. Personally, I haven’t felt like that in a while.

I do remember being one when their first record came out. “What did you expect from The Vaccines?” is the soundtrack of every memory about me being fifteen. And with every record, it seemed like they fitted the songs to whatever I was going through at the moment.

With “Come of Age” I put a lyric to the feeling of just being a moody teenager, hating pretty much everybody. And they also gave me a song to listen to when I wanted to feel in love. Even if I wasn’t. “I Always Knew” ... Listening to it now gives me goosebumps because it reminds me of those days. Which were not so long ago, but one tends to forget what being an adolescent is, almost as soon as you turn 19. Maybe because everything hurts so much at that age you just want to erase it. But truth is, life is never as fresh and simple as it is when you are seventeen. Being in your teens is a wild adventure, even if you spend your weekends in Tumblr listening to the Arctic Monkeys.

With Headphones Baby something weird happened to me. I was at my adult person job (that, of course, I hate) when I played the song for the first time. Justin’s voice immediately makes a bad day better. And the music behind those lyrics clicked with a feeling I missed a lot, being a weird anti-social teenager.

Suddenly, I was a sixteen-year-old weirdo again, with a stupid crush on the one guy who knew how to play the guitar in the whole school. It felt like the kind of crush you just look at during recess as you write their name in your notebook (I told you I was a weirdo). I missed that rush of seeing someone I liked, that stomachache that announces a tiny panic attack every time he looked at me (mostly by accident). It doesn’t happen very often when you’re in your mid-twenties in the middle of a pandemic. And I know is a weird thing to be nostalgic about, but it was quite nice to be reminded of that feeling by a song. “Headphones baby” made me travel back to when wearing black Converse everyday was a rule.  

I know, that if I had that song back in high school, I would’ve listened to it so many times thinking about whatever dude I was “in love” with that month. During the three minutes and 18 seconds that Headphones Baby lasted, I was just a kid again. Dreaming about being a famous writer and traveling the world, fantasizing about my crush. Singing out loud in my room with the hairbrush in my hand. Just being a kid. Happy without even knowing it.

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How music feels

Sometimes makes you feel alive. Sometimes it breaks your heart. And sometimes, it makes you feel like you’re on a musical dancing with a huge cast behind you in sunny California.

This is a place where I will write what some songs make me feel. Maybe you’ll feel that way too. 

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A veces la música te hace sentir vivo. A veces te rompe el corazón. Y a veces, te hace sentir como si estuvieses en un musical bailando con un elenco enorme detrás de ti en la soleada California.

Este es un lugar donde escribiré lo que la música me hace sentir. Quizás tu también te sientas así.