Editorial

Does listening to music ever take you back in time or hit you with nostalgia? It certainly does for me.

In some cases, the music takes me back to the time when it was originally released. Green Day's "21 Guns" is one such song. As the opening notes hit my ears, I find myself back in 2009/10, when I was in Grade 7. The song makes me specifically recall the time I was caught bunking my Bangla class.

Then there's Tame Impala's "Let It Happen". The song's outro makes me feel things that very few substances in this world can make one feel or experience. It also takes me back to the time I was in high school and was trying to figure out what to do with my life after completing my HSC.

Of course, it's not always necessary that the song will take me back to the period it was released in. Joji's "Like You Do", for instance, takes me back to 2012 when I was in grade nice, although the song was only released in 2020.

It's beautiful how music can hit us with so many emotions and, at the same time, take us back in time.