70 Songs for 7 Moods

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Music has a way of bringing people together, changing your mood, and making you feel like you’re in a room full of friends when you’re alone. There is a certain science behind the way music is constructed, and I’m not going to pretend to know what it is, but I know that it is beautiful. It can bond you with new friends, celebrate the holiday season, help you cope with a breakup, and push you to run that extra mile.

I hate the question, “What’s your favorite song?” because I don’t even have a favorite genre. It is entirely dependent on how I feel, what happened to me that day, and who I’m talking to. My “favorite song” changes daily, even hourly, because there isn’t one piece of music that will invoke that euphoric feeling 100% of the time, but different pieces which, strung together, build me as a person. So, I’ve decided to share some of the (unique) categories that I love, and the songs that fit perfectly for that mood.

Songs for loving life

  • 34 minutes long
  • Explicit radar: low

It’s summer and you’re in your Jeep with friends – the sun is setting, the windows are down, you’re not driving anywhere specific, and you’re feeling grateful for life itself.

  1. Electric love – Borns
  2. All We Know – Chainsmokers, Phoebe Ryan
  3. Feel Good – Gryffin, ILLENIUM, Daya
  4. Here We Go – WILD
  5. The Good Part – AJR
  6. Whole Heart (BKAYE Remix) – Gryffin, Bipolar Sunshine
  7. SOS – Avicii, Aloe Blacc
  8. Young Dumb & Broke – Khalid
  9. Fast Car – Jonas Blue, Dakotas
  10. Magic in the Hamptons – Social House, Lil Yachty

Songs for when you want to be ratchet

  • 41 minutes long
  • Explicit radar: high

It’s 9pm and you’re putting mascara on in your dorm room.  You just took your last final and you are ready to go make some mistakes.    

  1. Turn Down for What – DJ Snake, Lil Jon
  2. Gas Pedal – Sage The Gemini, Iansul
  3. Outta Your Mind – Lil Jon, LMFAO
  4. Mo Bamba – Sheck Wes
  5. Bricks – Carnage, Migos
  6. Get Low – Ying Yang Twins, Lil Jon, The East Side Boyz
  7. Plain Jane – A$AP Ferg
  8. I Don’t F*** With You – Big Sean, E-40
  9. Don’t Drop That Thun Thun – Finatticz
  10. m.A.A.d city – Kendrick Lamar, MC Eiht

Country that’ll make you FEEL

  • 34 minutes long
  • Explicit radar: low

You’re bored, sitting on your bed, and playing on your phone – not necessarily in the mood to feel good or bad, just feel. 

  1. Take Me Home, Country Roads – John Denver
  2. Bless The Broken Road – Rascal Flatts
  3. Broken Halos – Chris Stapleton
  4. Get Along – Kenny Chesney
  5. Dixieland Delight (single edit) – Alabama
  6. Chicken Fried – Zac Brown Band
  7. What Ifs – Kane Brown, Lauren Alaina
  8. Break Up in the End – Cole Swindell
  9. Tequila – Dan + Shay
  10. Beautiful Crazy – Luke Combs

Soulful men

  • 41 minutes long
  • Explicit radar: low

It’s midnight and you’re driving back from a friend’s house.  You’re not sad but you feel like doing some emotional damage on the empty road.   

  1. Zombie – Bad Wolves
  2. Leave a Light on – Tom Walker
  3. The Sound of Silence – Disturbed
  4. Fire on Fire – Sam Smith
  5. Call out my Name – The Weeknd
  6. Dancing on my Own – Calum Scott
  7. Drowning Shadows – Sam Smith  
  8. Movement – Hozier
  9. Hallelujah – Rufus Wainwright
  10. Somebody To Love (Remastered 2011) – Queen

2000’s grunge

  • 33 minutes
  • Explicit radar: low

It’s 2010 and you just finished watching Cheaper by the Dozen.  Life is good.

  1. In Too Deep – Sum 41
  2. Sugar, We’re Goin Down – Fall Out Boy
  3. Mr. Brightside – The Killers
  4. DONTTRUSTME – 3OH!3
  5. The Great Escape – Boys Like Girls
  6. 1985 – Bowling For Soup
  7. Check Yes Juliet – We The Kings
  8. I’m Just A Kid – Simple Plan
  9. My First Kiss – 3OH!3, Ke$ha
  10. The Anthem – Good Charlotte

Upbeat songs about cheating/breaking up

  • 34 minutes long
  • Explicit radar: moderate

You haven’t cheated or broken up with anyone, but you are in the mood to feel like you have.

  1. Who Do You Love – Chainsmokers, 5 Seconds of Summer  
  2. Break up with you girlfriend, I’m bored – Ariana Grande
  3. So What – Pink
  4. Playinwitme – KYLE, Kehlani
  5. Forgetting All About You – Phoebe Ryan, blackbear
  6. It Wasn’t Me – Shaggy, Rik Rok
  7. Don’t Leave Me Alone – David Guetta, Anne-Marie
  8. Do re mi – blackbear
  9. IDGAF – Dua Lipa
  10. What the Hell – Avril Lavigne

Songs your dad used to listen to while working out

  • 38 minutes
  • Explicit radar: low

You’re eight years old in the basement.  Dad is working out with the stereo on full blast and between sets he yells at you to stop climbing on the machines.

  1. Stricken – Disturbed
  2. Rise Above This – Seether
  3. Hero – Skillet
  4. Bodies – Drowning Pool (max reps here)
  5. Break – Three Days Grace
  6. Diary of Jane (single version) – Breaking Benjamin
  7. In the Ayer – Flo Rida, will.i.am
  8. I don’t wanna stop – Ozzy Osborn
  9. Low – Flo Rida, T-Pain
  10. Sweet Child O’ Mine – Guns and Roses (cool down here)