The playlist begins with an abrupt cut.
This represents how this playlist only represents a miniscule fraction of time on earth; neither beginning nor end.
This song by The Beatles features a beautiful and cacophonic array of sounds representative of daily human life, in the era
of bustling city and television.
The chromatic tuning of a string orchestra towards the end is uniquely representative of humanity's music.
An addictive, alluring pop song. Non-earthers must hear this.
This song in particular deals with love-- the desperate, heart-wrenching part of it.
The instrumentation is more electronic and produced than the rest of the selections, featuring vocals from both men and women.
It includes a combination of English and Korean lyrics;
more than one language in one song is very interesting to hear, and representative of human connection across diversity.
This song represents dreamy serenity and contentment. At least one song had to. I chose this song from someone else's music library in an attempt to further diversify my playlist. It features Japanese lyrics, male and female vocals, classical guitar, and saxophone.
To represent humanity, there must be dissatisfaction and frustration.
I chose this song because I wanted that emotion to come from a woman.
A piece with emotional gravity. The instrumentation of this recording was a concious choice.
Saxophone, to demonstrate the most satisfying and beautiful sound of human creation (in my opinion, naturally, as a saxophonist).
Organ, to allude to religion and music's trancendental power over humanity.
This song describes the condition of human life: it's just a ride.
Musically, the song conveys this beyond the lyrics, through use of cliche carousel melodies and waltz rhythms.
Instrumentation-wise, it is primarily voice and piano, which in itself well-represents humanity; voice-- duh,
and piano-- an instrument to summarize the music theory (unfortunately) all of these songs ascribe to.
This song represents my desire to include a perspective and sound greater than my own.
The atmosphere, lyrics, and message of the song are inherently reflective of a collective as opposed to an individual.
At the very least, the instrumentation and genre is at least marginally diverse from my other selections.
If my playlist was only one song long, I would choose this song.
The ambience is chilling and accurately represents the sound of life on earth I hear through my human ears.
The emotional (harmonic) quality perfectly captures human strife through love, regret, and grief.
The orchestration is artful and compelling.
The lyrics are pure poetry; human and enigmatic.
This song was chosen to represent pain and what humanity has done to itself through capitalism.
It was very important to me to include the sound of human screams;
the most loud and true sound we are capable of making with only our bodies.
This song sounds like human death to me, so I chose it for the end. The classic instrumentation and the fact it is a composition by Beethoven also contributed to my final decision.
Upon reflection, I am dissatisfied by how tailored to my own experience my choices are.
I sought to represent a spectrum of human emotion and earthly sounds.
I do not know what I do not know, so I pulled from a catelogue of music familiar to me.
I am simply not familiar with the scope of human diversity.
This playlist motivates me to keep working on widening my sliver of familiarity in the pie chart of music.