Homecoming Playlist, Mum edition
What does a Texas-style homecoming mum FEEL like? It feels like music.
But not just one song. A mum is more like a really great playlist that mashes up this exact time in your life with all kinds of truths, complications, and echoes of the past: the freedom of staying up all night, the coziness of your own bed, the best joke you’ve ever heard, aspirations, broken hearts, and an unbridled use of glitter.
A playlist kind of like this one.
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Get Ready for This, 2 Unlimited
Get the Party Started, Pink
Good Feeling, Flo Rida
Don't Stop Believing, Journey
Shiny Happy People, R.E.M.
Happy, Pharrell Williams
Home, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Homecoming, Hey Monday
Homegrown, Zac Brown Band
Home, Blake Shelton
Cotton Eye Joe, Rednex version
Hey Baby, Will You Be My Girl, Aaron Foret
The Yellow Rose of Texas / The Eyes of Texas, Elvis Presley
Free Fallin', Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Cheerleader, OMI (Felix Jaehn remix) feat. Nicky Jam
Girl, Beck
Today Was A Fairytale (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift
Cinderella, Remi Wolf
Run the World, Beyoncé
Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Cyndi Lauper
Girl Like Me, Black Eyed Peas, Shakira
Vogue, Madonna
Starships, Nicki Minaj
We Are the Champions, Queen
Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana
Walk This Way, Run DMC ft. Aerosmith
Victorious, Panic! at the Disco
Can't Hold Us (feat. Ray Dalton), Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Firework, Katie Perry
Ring My Bell, Anita Ward
Dance The Night, Dua Lipa
This is What You Came For, Calvin Harris, Rihanna
Glory Days, Bruce Springsteen
The Edge of Glory, Lady Gaga
What songs are missing from this list? Let us know in the comments!
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Shameless Plug for Mumentous
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- Midwest Book Review and Donovan's Literary Services by D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer