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Link to episode/tour: McMansion House Tour

Link to full playlist (more songs than the tour, constantly updating): McMansion

“Show Intro”

This is themed party playlists, the show where I make intricately, carefully themed playlists and invite you to a little music listening party, where you can mix and mingle with some new media! I’m Ashlyn.

“McMansion Entryway”

Welcome to my McMansion House Tour of an episode. This is a playlist that I’ve been working on for a while. Um, I think it’s a really interesting vibe and concept, uh.. And I’m pretty proud of the name, even though I know sometimes it needs a little bit of explanation. But I decided to call it “McMansion” because… a McMansion is a modern style of house that is usually built kind of quickly, it doesn’t make a whole lot of architectural sense, and its main, um, goal is to make the owners look very wealthy and successful in a [very] “American Dream” type of sense. But it’s ultimately kind of.. Kind of hollow, and shallow, it’s the type of ugly, weird house that you see in those surreal suburbs, they usually have that kind of really big entry way that like… oh I hate them so much because you could easily have room to have a whole other room upstairs but instead you have this entryway that’s just a waste, and this playlist is all about the uh facad 0f the american dream, listen I’m in my mid to late twenties right now and i feel like i wanted to collect a bunch of songs that convey like a quarter to midlife crisis, feeling in america, and feeling like “I should have had a nice house by now, like I should have ah, you know, like a finished basement with a var and a garage tha fits two to three cars, and like, this big, ridiculous, dumb looking ohouse out in the suburbs and like a normie job and all that sort of stuff,” um so yeah. I named it McMansion off of the house that I remember seeing a lot of when I was little in the pre-recession times I guess. Um, yeah, i’m going to , for a little bit more of an explanation of that kind of thing i’m gonna show you guys a clip from a mini-doc where they interview Kate Wagner who runs like one of my favorite blogs of all time, it’s called McMansion Hell and it's really interesting.

McMansion hell

Segment of: McMansions: The houses that people love to hate (first 30sec)

Joywave

My first little grouping here is a collection by Joywave, who’s one of my favorite bands, and I feel like a lot of their stuff sort of fit this feeling and that’s probably why I love them so much and relate to them. Enjoy!

Joywave - Nice House (Audio Only)

Joywave - Half Your Age

Joywave - Like a Kennedy

School and Work

Alright, this is a little collection of songs about, like, getting a degree, and getting a job… these feel like such mundane topics to have such, like, excited, fun, sort of fantastical songs about. But I always love that combination of sort of the mundane and the exaggerated. If I were tasked with making like, some sort of jukebox musical about normal day-to-day, like, mundane life I feel like I would absolutely put these songs in it.

Kero Kero Bonito - Graduation

"i don't wanna go to school" full song

Kero Kero Bonito - Try Me

Dorian Electra - Career Boy (Official Video)

Chris Fleming

Speaking of this combination of like, the over-the-top interpretation of the mundane details of day-to-day life, I feel like Chris Fleming really gets that, I guess? You need to watch his series “Gayle” on YouTube. It's like this insane drama of like normal kinda suburban moms, I guess? It’s hard to explain but it’s really really good, I was able to sell a few friends on it who thought that they wouldn’t like it. It’s very over the top and it dramatizes the cliquey nature of suburban moms. So it's very fictional, very over the top, but I feel like it sort of validates how extreme these silly little details are. It’s a lot of fun, but anyway here's a couple of his songs that are kind of along that line.

Sick Jan

The Grad Student Shuffle

Column

What really cracks me up about what Kate is saying here about the columns on the fronts of these McMansions is just that combination of trying to be so grand and just so much, and then it’s in the middle of this boring suburb, like that’s so funny, I love that type of juxtaposition in things, it just really gets to me!

McMansions: The houses that people love to hate (later in this video)

Suburban

Here’s a collection of songs that are sort of about you know setting into a place to live out your normie life, and they all have, sort of an element of terror? Or concern? Or like a part of you revolting against this? Type of thing. Or just- you know. Just listen to them and think your own sort of thoughts.

Don't Worry About the Government (2005 Remaster)

Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime (Official Video)

Soft Cell - Frustration

KOPPS - Lose Control (Official Audio)

McMansion bye

Guys, thank you so much for coming to my little McMansion house party, here. I think this is a playlist concept that I’m going to keep adding to, cause it’s just sort of fun and really interesting. So I’ll probably do more tours of this collection in the future, so keep an eye out for that. Until then, here are a few more songs of this vibe. That i want to send you out on

Hobo Johnson - Subaru Crosstrek XV (Official Video)

Short Skirt Long Jacket by Cake

Normie car

Okay I lied, i guess that wasn’t goodbye. I guess I have to pop in for one more piece of commentary because I think it's funny that short skirt, long jacket and Subaru crosstrek both involve the purchasing of a like, normie car. I guess, I don't know why that cracks me up. Okay enjoy the last few songs! I love you, bye. Be good.

Raffaella - NASA's Fake (Official Lyric Video)

Fountains of Wayne - Stacy's Mom (Official Music Video)

Oh my godddddd Hahahha perfect

Also I swear to god you better live long, don’t leave me we’re supposed to have crises together, I think it was in the roommate contract we made in sophomore year