playlist: hot chocolate

(This one is for Cinde)

Believe it or not, I have done it again. Yes yes, yet another acoustic playlist. Readers, I promise you.. the next one is going be something completely different.

This playlist was actually the hardest one I've had to collate thus far, because it was created upon a request. In case you don't know, my playlists have specific moods. To be exact, the mood that I was meant to capture for hot chocolate was 'feeling special,' and 'fitting in.' I had absolutely no idea how to handle such a request without going down the generic route, but then it finally hit me. All I had to do was look for songs that encapsulate youth and simplicity.

To me, hot chocolate is all about the feeling of warmth. I think of sitting around a giant bonfire with my friends, or dancing around the flames with a big straw hat on my head. I can imagine myself curling up into a ball with my favourite book. Most of all, I picture safety, comfort and the element of youth that I know most of us will  cling onto for the rest of our lives.

If you just click on any of the titles listed below, you will automatically be redirected to youtube. :-)


We are young (cover), by Boyce Avenue

The banjolin song, by Mumford and Sons

Idaho, by Gregory Alan Isakov

We're going to be friends, by The White Stripes

Dancing in the moonlight (cover), by Matt Knapp