teenage head

11.
Westlife - Westlife (also, S CLUB 7)

The epitome of the Smash Hits years! I remember taking my dad to HMV and asking him if I could spend my first allowance on the S Club 7 CD. He said sure. I also made a Westlife scrapbook and Vilaa copied me. I like Bryan, Vilaa pretended to like Shane, Naana pretended to like Mark. We jumped and screamed when this video came on screen. I was going to go to Ireland after high school and never go to college. It made my father very angry.

12.
Jonathan Larson - RENT

I was going to write a musical named "c/o Life". It took place in a Post Office and centred around a girl that had AIDS (her solo song was, As.I.Die.Slowly). There was a couple in it (Stacey and Roger) and a girl named Candy who wanted to chase her dream of being a hairdresser. It was about communication and how these post office workers deal with so much communication and yet can't communicate. It was never completed. (PS. I really hated the Rent movie)

13.
*NSYNC - No Strings Attached & O-Town - O-Town

I wrote a lot (A LOT) of boyband fan fiction.

14.
P!nk - M!ssundaztood

Pink - Don'T Let Me Get Me
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I fancied myself quite real. This is still a great album! (milder version of my impedning Kimya/Moldy Peaches love)

15.
Crass ... lots of it.

My friends thought I was rather punk with my DIY attitude and care no-nonsense/feminist outlook on life (let me tell you, I was none of these things, just a girl with deep thoughts and feelings). so they told me to listen to Linkin Park. And Metallica. I had a crush on a metal head so I did listen to a lot of bullshit. But ONE band really epitomizes what I loved: CRASS, fucking CRASS! I also heard my first Moldy Peaches song (I Forgot) and my sisters and I didn't know what to make of it ... at all.

16.
Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch

An awakening, my god! All those nights spent with Regina. I really experimented with my writing style and began to write a lot of forceful quirky prose-poetry that nobody got.

17.
Indie

I fancied myself somewhat of a music connoisseur but of course this meant the demise of actual music listening. The time in my life when I played the role: name-dropping, listening to know and not to listen, rushing through bands just to know them. Yeah. I even read NME. Some great stuff there, but I don't remember it fondly for the simple reason that I was posing. Still, some real good and true listening occured with: The Smiths, Pixies, Joy Division, etc.

18.
Kooks - Inside In/Inside Out

People love to hate the Kooks, but this was the soundtrack to my leaving Hong Kong and it really was a great album!

19.
Anthology of American Folk Music

Finally, NEW YORK! It meant I could immerse myself in the "scene". That never happened (thank god). Instead I listened to fewer bands more deeply and music vanished from my life.

20.
everything is about FILM now (and lots of twee!)