A few days ago I was asked, "what is your favorite song?" Like everyone else I have been asked this question about three times a week, almost every week of my life, but for some reason, I honestly never have an answer. Everybody has a favorite song to cry too, a favorite song to dance to, a favorite song for the summertime, a favorite song for the rain, a favorite song in their favorite movie, and a favorite song that reminds them of a memory. I decided that it would be kinda strange to have just one favorite song. There are simply too many songs, and too many feelings.

I am obsessed with movies and television, and lately I've been taking extra notice to what songs are played in them, and how that affects the scene, and the emotions I feel while watching that scene. What if Ferris Bueller hadn't danced to "Twist and Shout" by the Beatles or Sam hadn't shown Andrew 'New Slang' by The Shins in Garden State or what if Johnny and Baby hadn't danced to "The Time Of My Life” in Dirty Dancing? Would we have loved these scenes quite as much? Would they make us feel the way they were intended to make us feel? Probably not. Inspiration struck and I made a playlist on Spotify, that includes my favorite songs to cry to, to dance to, to drive to; from my favorite movies, my favorite musicals and my favorite memories. This playlist is a little bit of everything or in other words a little bit of me. So the next time someone asks me "what is your favorite song?" I will send them this link.

1, 2, 3, 4 – Plain White T's
1234 – Feist
The Age of Worry – John Mayer
All The Small Things – blink-182
All You Wanted – Michelle Branch
Almost There – Anika Noni Rose
American Boy (feat. Kanye West) – Estelle, Kanye West
American Idiot – Green Day
Anything Could Happen – Ellie Goulding
Awake My Soul – Mumford & Sons
Back To Back – Drake
Be OK – Ingrid Michaelson
Beautiful City – Hunter Parrish
Being Alive – Stephen Sondheim
Best I Ever Had – Drake
Better Together – Jack Johnson
Bitter Sweet Symphony – The Verve
Born This Way – Lady Gaga
Boston – Augustana
Bound 2 – Kanye West
Breathe – In The Heights (Original Cast Recording)
Burn – Phillipa Soo
Can't Tell Me Nothing – Kanye West
Catch Me – Demi Lovato
Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol
Chasing Pavements – Adele
Clarity – John Mayer
Clocks – Coldplay
Close To You – Rihanna
Complicated – Avril Lavigne
Consideration – Rihanna, SZA
Crazy / U Drive Me Crazy (Glee Cast Version) – Glee Cast
Dancing Queen – ABBA
Daughters – John Mayer
Dear Theodosia (feat. Ben Folds) – Regina Spektor, Ben Folds
Dog Days Are Over – Florence + The Machine
Don't Forget Me (SMASH Cast Version) [feat. Katharine McPhee] – SMASH Cast
Don't Know Why – Norah Jones
Don't Speak – No Doubt
Don't Wanna Be Torn – Hannah Montana
Double Rainbow – Katy Perry
Dreaming with a Broken Heart – John Mayer
Dyin’ Ain’t So Bad (feat. Laura Osnes) – Original Broadway Cast Recording, Laura Osnes
East Northumberland High – Miley Cyrus
Everybody Wants To Rule The World – Tears For Fears
Everytime – Britney Spears
Everywhere – Michelle Branch
Fairytale – Sara Bareilles
Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1 – Kanye West
The Fear – Lily Allen
Fidelity – Regina Spektor
Fireproof – One Direction
Fix You – Coldplay
Fly, Fly Away – Kerry Butler
Fool's Gold – One Direction
Forever Young - Fast Version – Bob Dylan
Funny - Live – Tori Kelly
#GETITRIGHT – Miley Cyrus
Girl Almighty – One Direction
Girls Just Want to Have Fun – Cyndi Lauper
Glitter In the Air – P!nk
Good Thing – Sam Smith
Gotta Go My Own Way - From "High School Musical 2" – Troy, Gabriella
Gravity – John Mayer
Gravity – Sara Bareilles
Haven't Met You Yet – Michael Bublé
Head Over Heels – The Go-Go's
Headlines – Drake
Heartless – Kanye West
Heaven – Beyoncé
Here Comes The Sun - Remastered – The Beatles
Hero – Family of the Year
Hey Girl – Lady Gaga, Florence Welch
Hey There Delilah – Plain White T's
Hey, Soul Sister – Train
Home – Michael Bublé
How to Save a Life – The Fray
How's It Going To Be – Third Eye Blind
I Can See Clearly Now – Jimmy Cliff
I Choose You – Sara Bareilles
I Don't Need A Man – The Pussycat Dolls
I Dreamed A Dream – Anne Hathaway
I Feel It All – Feist
I Got You – Jack Johnson
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) – Whitney Houston
I Will Wait – Mumford & Sons
I Won't Say (I'm In Love) - From "Hercules"/Soundtrack Version – Susan Egan, The Muses
I'm Through – Ingrid Michaelson
I'm with You – Avril Lavigne
Imagine – Jack Johnson
Imma Be – The Black Eyed Peas
International Smile – Katy Perry
Iris – The Goo Goo Dolls
Ironic – Alanis Morissette
Irreplaceable – Beyoncé
Jimmy – Sutton Foster
Jump – Madonna
Jumper - 1998 Edit Version – Third Eye Blind
Just Can't Get Enough – Depeche Mode
Just Like Heaven – The Cure
Keep Breathing – Ingrid Michaelson
L-O-V-E - 1992 Digital Remaster – Nat King Cole
La La Land – Demi Lovato
La Vie Boheme – Cast Of The Motion Picture Rent
Landslide – Dixie Chicks
Laughing With – Regina Spektor
Legally Blonde – Christian Borle, Laura Bell Bundy
Legally Blonde Remix – Kate Shindle, Laura Bell Bundy, 'Legally Blonde' Ensemble, Natalie Joy Johnson
Let Me Be Your Star (SMASH Cast Version) [feat. Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty] - (Extended Intro) – SMASH Cast
Light My Candle – Adam Pascal, Rosario Dawson
Like A Virgin – Madonna
Listen (From the Motion Picture "Dreamgirls") – Beyoncé
Look At Me I'm Sandra Dee – Stockard Channing
Love On Top – Beyoncé
Magic – Coldplay
Man! I Feel Like A Woman! – Shania Twain
Manhattan – Sara Bareilles
Material Girl – Madonna
Merry Go 'Round – Kacey Musgraves
Mine – Third Eye Blind
Miss Independent – Kelly Clarkson
My Happy Ending – Avril Lavigne
The Nearness Of You – Norah Jones
New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down – LCD Soundsystem
Night Changes – One Direction
No One Is Alone – Anna Kendrick, James Corden, Lilla Crawford, Daniel Huttlestone
Not for the Life of Me – Sutton Foster
On My Own – Miley Cyrus
On My Own – Samantha Barks
On The Way Home – John Mayer
Only Hope – Mandy Moore
P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) – Michael Jackson
Paper Bag – Fiona Apple
Paper Planes – M.I.A.
Part Of Your World – Sierra Boggess as Ariel
Partition – Beyoncé
Piece of Me – Britney Spears
Pieces Of Me – Ashlee Simpson
Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want – The Smiths
POWER – Kanye West
Pretty Funny – Dogfight (Original Cast)
Pretty Girl Rock – Keri Hilson
Pretty In Pink – The Psychedelic Furs
Put Your Records On – Corinne Bailey Rae
Quiet – Natalie Weiss
Radio – Lana Del Rey
Reflecting Light – Sam Phillips
Rocket – Tori Kelly
Run And Tell That – Elijah Kelley
Runaway – Kanye West, Pusha T
Same Love - feat. Mary Lambert – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Ryan Lewis, Mary Lambert, Macklemore
Satisfied – Renee Elise Goldsberry, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton
Say Ok – Vanessa Hudgens
The Schuyler Sisters – Renee Elise Goldsberry, Phillipa Soo, Jasmine Cephas-Jones, Leslie Odom Jr., Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton
The Scientist – Coldplay
Shadow Days – John Mayer
Shake It Out – Florence + The Machine
She Used To Be Mine – Sara Bareilles
She Will Be Loved – Maroon 5
Show Me How You Burlesque - Burlesque Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – Christina Aguilera
Since U Been Gone – Kelly Clarkson
Sleep – Azure Ray
So Much Better – Laura Bell Bundy, 'Legally Blonde' Ensemble
Somewhere That's Green – Soundtrack/Cast Album
Speak For Me – John Mayer
Still – Seinabo Sey
Still Hurting – Betsy Wolfe
Sugar Town – Nancy Sinatra
Summer Wind – Frank Sinatra
Sunday Morning – Maroon 5
Survivor – Destiny's Child
Sweet Disposition – The Temper Trap
The Sweet Escape – Gwen Stefani, Akon
Sweetest Devotion – Adele
Tainted Love – Soft Cell
Take A Chance On Me – ABBA
Take Me or Leave Me – Idina Menzel, Tracie Thoms
Tears Dry On Their Own – Amy Winehouse
Teenage Dream (Glee Cast Version) – Glee Cast
That Don't Impress Me Much – Shania Twain
There Are Worse Things I Could Do – Stockard Channing
There She Goes – The La's
This Love – Maroon 5
The Tide Is High (Get The Feeling) [Radio Mix] – Atomic Kitten
The Times They Are A-Changin' – Bob Dylan
Too Little, Too Late – JoJo
Top Of The World – Carpenters
Ultralight Beam – Kanye West
Underneath It All – No Doubt, Lady Saw
Unwritten – Natasha Bedingfield
Uptown Girl – Billy Joel
Us – Regina Spektor
Valerie - Live At BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, London / 2007 – Amy Winehouse
Vienna – Billy Joel
Waiting On the World to Change – John Mayer
Waterfalls – TLC
Waves – Kanye West
Ways To Go – Grouplove
We Can't Stop – Miley Cyrus
What I Was Born to Do – Bring It On: The Musical - Original Broadway Cast
What's My Age Again? – blink-182
When Somebody Loves You – Frank Sinatra
When Will My Life Begin - From "Tangled"/Soundtrack Version – Mandy Moore
Where Does the Good Go – Tegan and Sara
Where You Lead – Carole King
Who Says – John Mayer
Why Can't I? – Liz Phair
The Wire – HAIM
With A Little Help From My Friends – Joe Anderson, Jim Sturgess
With You – Original Cast Recording
Wonderful World – Sam Cooke
Wonderwall – Oasis
XO – John Mayer
Yellow - Live From Spotify London – Coldplay
You Make My Dreams - Remastered – Daryl Hall & John Oates
You Matter To Me – Sara Bareilles, Jason Mraz
You Wouldn't Like Me – Tegan and Sara
You're Gonna Live Forever in Me – John Mayer
Young Folks – Peter Bjorn and John
Your Body Is a Wonderland – John Mayer
Your Song – Ellie Goulding