Winter marks the definitive moment where the pressures of year’s end rears its ugly head and claws at the apprehension of students around the world. Refusing the pressures of the end and, like Thing 1 and Thing 2, opposing every necessary task in need of completion, students become susceptible to the deadly vice of procrastination.
Amongst concerts, road trips and carnivals, music provides one of the many outlets for procrastination during these hectic times.
Whether hip hop, R&B or alternative rock, music acts as an outlet for the soul and a guide for the mind. Tapping pencils to rhythmic beats and bobbing heads to “study music,” it’s easy to let music guide us away from our main objectives.
In times of stress, boredom, happiness or procrastination, music gives us the ability to calm our minds and focus on what’s important. While either typing a 10 page essay or memorizing notecards on StudyBlue, music makes it easier to get the job done.
So while studying for final exams or figuring out a place to live for the upcoming semester, let music’s virtuos sound help you put off the inevitable.
Here are 20 songs to blow off steam during the spring of your life.
1. “The Rockafeller Skank” – Fatboy Slim
2. “All Falls Down” – Kanye West
3. “Novacane” – Frank Ocean
4. “Collard Greens” – Kendrick Lamar feat. Schoolboy Q
5. “Royals” – Lorde
6. “Holy Grail” – Jay Z
7. “We are Young” – Fun
8. “Happy” – Pharrell
9. “Thrift Shop” – Macklemore feat. Wanz
10. “Worst Behavior” – Drake
11. “Drunk In Love” – Beyonce
12. “Sweet Disposition” – The Temper Trap
13. “Crew Love” – Drake
14. “Goblin” – Tyler the Creator
15. “No Church in the Wild” – Kanye West and Jay Z feat. Frank Ocean
16. “Colorblind” – Counting Crows
17. “Climax” – Usher
18. “Rosa Parks” – Outkast
19. “Ruff Ryder’s Anthem” – DMX
20. “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” – Kanye West
Because music makes you lose control ...in a good way
