[for the first time in history wrapped needed more than 1 post] > WRAPPED GAMBLING v1.0 since the inception i've included my top 5, and bottom 5, of my spotify wrapped — partly because it's always launched before I ever finished writing listowrapped, mostly because I thought spotify wrapped was novel enough. but i am no longer dazzled by own statistics because i live in the present! so let's do some trend analysis. and some gambling which is better received as prediction. i'm trying to clear the house over here.

• Purple Rain (Live in Syracuse, 1985) - Prince
• Oh Sheit It's X - Thundercat
• ETA - NewJeans
• FIELD TRIP - YS
• Yogijogi (Sumin Remix) - Sumin, Slom
• Them Changes - Thundercat
• Do the act (like you never met me) - TV Girl, Jordana
• La Terra di Hamdis - Carmen Consoli, Mahmood
• Lover You Should've Come Over - Jeff Buckley
• The Divine Chord - The Avalanches ft. MGMT
• Victory Lap - Skepta, fred again
• Delilah (pull me out of this) - Fred again

Almost forgot about the psychosis that was listening to ETA - NewJeans for 2 months straight walking around ADMU campus and having to WRITE in my JOURNAL about it. aside from that it's a genuine toss up b/w thundercat and prince for no. 1, technically because purple rain (live) in EIGHTEEN minutes long i bet it's going to be oh sheit it's x. but this was a very purple rain year and deserves to be commemorated as no. 1. in my heart. and on listography. i can't stress enough how much I've been listening to purple rain. it's kind of insane. there's a part in the live version where it sounds like prince just fell of the stage. and i have to listen to it every time.

last year i wrote about how i fell out of kpop and important nuance of that, which is echoed earlier, is that i fell out of kpop fandom. but newjeans, katseye, sumin (who's technically kRNB but whatever) as well as a handful of singles that make it out of kpop fandom and into whatever space of twitter i occupy right now, are still so good. someone needs to add this to the list of things that are eternal: death, taxes, and listening to korean music.

i feel deeply influenced by lucy, quinn and xan's music taste this year which is probably a direct result of spending hours in their car. thank you quinn for introducing jeff buckley to me. and changing my life by ruining it. because there isn't a single thing jeff buckley's made that hasn't made me want to curl up into a ball. xan took me to see ORLA GARTLAND and i discovered the divine chord by the avalanches which is a very May song. it sounds exactly like saying goodbye after one of the best years of your life. lucy showed me blues brothers and i was never the same way. i got way more into rock, folk, and blues this year and it shows!

what was the actual top/bottom 5?

• need 2 audiogrove edition - pinegrove
• shake - o side mafia
• y - hyuk-oh, sunset rollercoaster
• sex tape (feat sunset rollercoaster) - ozi
• yogijogi (sumin remix) - sumin, slom
• rewind - wonder girls
• go! - cortis
• last 1s left - skepta, fred again
• o bem ao vivo - arlindo cruz
• ikaw ang aking mahal - vst & company

O wow. first of all it's insane that years after his last appearance in 2020, ozi is back in my wrapped. #what #does #this #mean. second of all WHERE IS PURPLE RAIN LIVE IN SYRACAUSE.

> FOR THE LOVE OF THE RUN

i got deeply into running this year by logging over 205km which. is insane. particularly during the last half of the year when i would go run 5ks almost every day and culminating in a 10k run. which idk how i walked home after that. anyways i would love to get into running more but trying to figure out what to train for and how is crazy conssidering i still can't crack <14 min km.

> MINING FOR OBSIDIAN

ok i locked in and i finally understand the beauty and joy of obsidian. i gave up trying to put my thoughts into perfect little obsidian dashboards and started embracing it for what it really is which is a random link floating in an abyss that i can trigger. amazing stuff.

> EDITOR'S NOTE (i need to get balatro)

this was goign to be a little longer and more thought out but it is march and i did't finish it which suggests perhaps that the scope of this year's wrapped was too ambitious. nevermind. in 2026 i will continue to be a sapling ready to grow into a tree.