With Boyhood up for multiple Oscars, our resident boys make their case for the film using its soundtrack.
Welcome to Oscar season.
The simple answer is: We were boys too once.Maybewe still are.
Nothing was Yellow about being 16 and working your first shitty job pressing green and red buttons.
Yellow kept me sane the first three or four spins.
I chose to remember those times.
If you worked in that place, you were delusional enough where eventually the tunes start talking to you.
What we do know is Yellow reads like a song about unconditional love.
Coldplay casts over him like a cloud and hes thinking about nothing.
Hes a young boy.
Its the entire movie in a nutshell.
Just by existing, Mason is unconditionally loved by Olivia.
Yellow to me, in the context of the film, can be taken from Olivias perspective.
The only hope is hell appreciate it someday.
The song appeals to me now as it did then, when my first girlfriend showed it to me.
Its a song about sex!
1901 is about love not being bound by the physical nature of the relationship.
Early on the adults are caught in the elliptical pattern Phoenix croons about in the song.
Mason Sr. leaves Olivia and the kids for northern exposure, effectively squashing those relationships.
Had he been thatdad jeanguy a decade earlier, maybe him and Olivia could have made it work.
Olivia is forced to do it all from the start.
It so accurately shows what growing up in that time period was like.
Britney Spears Oops!…I Did It Again
Just like Mason in the film, my relationship withOops!
I Did It Again by Britney Spearsstems from my sister.
MTV was huge in my house, despite the fact that we were forbidden to watch it.
Obviously, that really didnt stop us.
Total Request Live was a crucial part of every afternoon.
Unlike Mason, I never found song annoying.
We anxiously awaited its follow-up, and when lead single Oops!
dropped from the album of the same name, we were floored.
Britney in that skintight red latex catsuit could get anyones blood moving.
Their breakthrough album Enema of the State was a treasure my brother and I shared in secret.
Just like the kids in the movie, Blink was the soundtrack to our day-to-day lives.
The amount that my friends and I loved Blink-182 is incalculable.
II was the angst-filled anthem of my youth.
Vampire Weekend One (Blakes Got A New Face)
Flash forward to high school.
At this point I was obsessed with music just as much as Mason was with photography.
I spent most of my time listening or writing songs in notebooks or with my friends.
Then, the summer before my sophomore year, everything changed.
