Illustrations by Alice Liu.

Illustrations by Alice Liu.

Getting a glimpse inside the mind of your favorite musician is a way to escape the mundanity of daily life. It always warms my heart to see, in the comments section of a music video, fans communing over cryptic messages and symbols, trying to figure out a song’s underlying message. It’s amusing but lovely that people spend all that effort to understand an artist they really love. The songs on this playlist are similarly up for interpretation. Get ready to decode some ~feels~.