what was old is new again

Let’s go back in time! Alanis Morissette was dating Ryan Reynolds, Jason Mraz was cool, you had to manually roll down the windows, cell phones were the size of literal bricks, and you had to record TRL episodes on a VHS …

This playlist started out as a tongue-in-check play on “adult contemporary”; that nebulous radio-friendly genre where it’s pop (but not quite) that played when my mom was driving us around.

Everything will sound vaguely familiar and simultaneously foreign and “ugh, just not the same!!” Let me know in the comments whose influences you hear! I’ll get you started: Fleetwood Mac, The Beatles, Broken Social Scene, Barenaked Ladies, Shania Twain, Britney Spears. Happy reminiscing!

YouTube Playlist | Apple Music Playlist

Note from Santa: I’m working on getting my family off Spotify so if you like these mixes, I recommend saving them from my Apple Music & YouTube accounts going forward as I phase out that app. Just one more parent to go!