Stephanie Georgopulos

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It’s funny, because I used to be one of you; all sweaty-palmed and dinner-dated and loved. I was there, where you are, passing holidays at my parents’ house in the bathroom, tapping out Morse code I wishes and I misses to whomever I was sharing a bed and a heart with that year.

If the members play their own instruments, are they exempt from boy band status? What about R&B groups? Is perfectly coiffed hair a requisite? It’s confusing.

There is something so dorky and earnest about Westlife as a group that I actually believe they never want to see me cry, treat me bad, cause me pain, etc.

It’s half-grating and half-brilliant and all-makes me want to get high and watch fireworks.

That song speaks truth. That song is self-aware. You know what song is the opposite of that song? “All Or Nothing” by O-Town.

The intermingling of the family (Real People) and the other guests (You, or someone like You) requires, on your part, behavioral adjustments as to appease and/ or not mortify your host, the graduate.

Spoiler Alert: There be no Carly Rae Jepsen on this playlist (though if you really want to hear “Call Me Maybe,” you probably won’t have trouble making that happen?) Instead, a playlist that celebrates all iterations of summertime.

Take long rides in too-hot cars with the windows down and the radio loud, play music you swore you outgrew like Sublime, or No Doubt, or Grateful Dead, or 311, or Bob Marley, or Long Beach Dub All-Stars, or Tom Petty.

Take time to revisit the places that made you who you are: the apartment you grew up in, your middle school, your hometown. These places may or may not be here forever; you definitely won’t be.

God, it killed me to see my classmates come to school with orange rubberbands on Halloween, and like, rainbow ones just because, and black ones because they were really feeling the new KoRn album.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that we’ve put ourselves out there on OkCupid and in bars; that 50 First Dates isn’t just the title of some godawful romcom (JK love it), but something we’ve actually attempted in the pursuit of happiness.