https://padlet.com/emilytgj/etjzduywno9t Made with good vibes en-us 2019-09-23 23:07:01 UTC 2025-11-06 23:28:31 UTC hello@padlet.com emilytgj https://padlet.com/emilytgj/etjzduywno9t/wish/388520677 Do you only ever listen to songs which are in the charts? Are you horrified by how old-fashioned your parents' music sounds? That was never my case. 
When I was 12, my dad bought me a Beatles CD for the car as we were travelling around Wales. It was the Red Album, and before long I was singing Please please Me and It's Been a Hard Day's Night and knew which Beatle sang what and why. Now, I was born in the 80s, so John Lennon was dead by the time I got into them, but I always associate these songs with being a young teenager and travelling around Britain. Then , I discovered the Kinks,  You Really Got Me, one of my Dad's firm favourite too, and it always stops me feeling tired and blue.
My mum also influenced me, and the Berber song A Va Va Inou Va, sung by Idir in the 70s, always makes me feel emotional. I first heard it when she played the vinyl LP!
But the song that truly takes me back to when I was at secondary school is an Italian classic, Ti Amo. The lyrics are cheesy, but it reminds me of a trip with my sister when we visited Rome on our own and felt free and grown-up.]]> 2019-09-23 23:12:54 UTC https://padlet.com/emilytgj/etjzduywno9t/wish/388520677