Like an actual diary, school is a record of who you used to be. No matter how much you change from year to year, people want to remind you of who you were in 11th grade, or ninth grade, or even sixth grade. Reinvention is hard! Why can’t people cut you some slack? Here’s a bunch of songs about personal reinvention, for when you want to show people all the things you are, and all the different people you can be.

Cover and playlist illustrations by Lucy Betz.

Cover and playlist illustrations by Lucy Betz.