Defining albums:
- Yard – Slow Pulp
- Younger Than I Was Before – Laundry Day
- Room on Fire – The Strokes
- Aim and Ignite – fun.
- i,i – Bon Iver
- Light Up Shoes 2 – Laundry Day
- We Switched Bodies – Laundry Day
- Midnights – Taylor Swift
- Sunburn – Dominic Fike
- Born To Die – Lana Del Ray
- Guts – Olivia Rodrigo
Defining songs:
- This Must Be the Place – Talking Heads
- Maps – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Yard – Slow Pulp
- So Far (It's Alright) – the 1975
- Smithereens – Twenty One Pilots
- A Feeling – Zack Villere
- Blube – Laundry Day
- Between Love and Hate – The Strokes
- All My Friends Know – Pink Pantheress
- Walking the Dog II – fun.
- Paris – Taylor Swift
- Tennessee Orange – Megan Marooney
- Us – Regina Spektor
- Instant Crush – Daft Punk, Julian Casablancas
- Foolish One – Taylor Swift
- Breath – Laundry Day
- How Can You Live If You Don't Love How Can You If You Do – Wednesday
- Spin Bout U – Drake
- 3D – Jungkook & Jack Harlow
- from here on out – lighthearted
- Glitch – Taylor Swift
- Drunk in Love Remix – Beyonce
- vampire – Olivia Rodrigo
- Speed Drive – Charli XCX
- Are You Looking Up – mk.gee
- Blindsided – Hovvdy
- Paris – the 1975
- Now That We Don't Talk – Taylor Swift
- House of Cards – Radiohead
- It's Not Living (If It's Not With You) – the 1975
- Jean – Hovvdy
- Christmas Wrapping – The Waitresses or the Glee Cast version
- When He Sees Me – Waitress the Musical
- Instant Crush – Daft Punk, Julian Casablancas
- Margaret – Lana Del Rey, Bleachers
- We Are Your Friends – Justice, Simian
* the year I became a Drake fan. Monumental
Defining movies:
- Stop Making Sense
- Barbenheimer duh
- Bottoms
- The Social Network
- The Hunger Games Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
- Icarus
- Saltburn
- Eras Tour Movie duh
- Bridget Jones' Diary
* (just in general noteworthy that this was the year of the movie for Maddie Joyner. really uncovered my love for the art form. Had my "omg people create this from an idea and it's an entire thing that I am watching that was constructed in a space somewhere" moment during Napoleon)
Defining books:
- Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg
- Meet Me in the Bathroom by Lizzy Goodman
- Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner
- Freeing Jesus by Diana Butler Bass
- Paris by Paris Hilton
Defining moments:
- Matty Healy and Taylor Swift dating
- George Santos as a concept
- Finding out that twenty one pilots are Christian
- Karma feat. Ice Spice
- Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce dating