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Friday Playlist: After the Glitter Fades

Sometimes glamour isn’t as fun as it looks.

Hazel Cills 10/23/2015

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Stars go dim, and glamour sometimes isn’t as fun as it looks. As the popular saying goes, “All that glitters is not gold.” The songs on this playlist are about what happens after the glitter fades.

10 Comments

Hannnah October 23rd, 2015 11:29 PM
this is so precisely my feelings right now. I just went out and everybody but me was glammed up wearing glitter and i felt left out and then things didn’t go just how I thought they would. I love this playlist <3
Reading_dog October 24th, 2015 1:03 PM
This was my first time listening to “Pretty Hurts” (don’t judge me) and I literally started crying it was so amazing. Thank you rookie!
Jes October 24th, 2015 3:26 PM
YAAAAAAAAAAS
Josie October 24th, 2015 3:50 PM
hey rookie, i always love your playlists so i was wondering: do you guys have a Spotify where i could follow these playlists? or if you don’t, would it be okay if i posted this same playlist to my Spotify so i can listen it it later?
- Lena Singer October 25th, 2015 3:10 PM
  We don’t have a Spotify, and please feel free! It would be especially sweet if you gave Hazel a producer credit.
Ellen October 24th, 2015 3:18 PM
why has the lucky one by taylor swift been so heinously snubbed
- Josie October 25th, 2015 6:20 PM
  probably because taylor took all her music off the internet in order to make more money on record sales, so no one can put it on their playlists anymore
demi2 October 26th, 2015 8:47 PM
Wow thank you! Shadow by Ashley Simpson… In 4th grade my mom won concert tickets from a radio station. I was so psyched. I remember worrying about what I was going to wear and how my mom would embarrass me more than the actual concert.
sonjatitanic October 26th, 2015 5:57 PM
As soon as the first song started I was in love. Britney 4evs.
ullis January 17th, 2016 2:19 PM
these playlists keep bugging : ( almost every playlist skips 1-3 songs with is a bummer cause i LOVE them and they give me so much new music

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