It’s the 3rd of December and that means it’s Heather Day! What exactly is “Heather Day”? It’s a lyrical reference to the Conan Gray song “Heather” which talks about unrequited love and his crush choosing some girl named Heather over him which is terrible because I still can’t imagine anyone choosing someone else over Conan Fucking Gray, the most beautiful man ALIVE!
So the first time I heard Heather was around November of 2022 and in a few short weeks, I became obsessed with this song. I think my kids unintentionally know the lyrics because of how many times they’ve heard it. I’ve written poetry inspired by this song and read that poetry at open mic. I’ve posed in pictures inspired by the video of the song. I’ve blasted that song from my car at various times and have always sung it out loud when it would play over the loudspeakers at my second job.

Needless to say, I have a deep relationship with that song. I know that it’s because at various stages in my life, I’ve been dumped by my exes for someone else, my crush has chosen someone else over me, or in one instance, the guy I was kind of seeing brought the other girl to an event we were both at and he thought it was fine while I was having full blown panic attacks in the bathroom (that’s another blog post). Before I listened to Heather , I didn’t know what to call these gut wrenching moments but after “Heather” I call these moments “Heather Moments”. And I’m sure there are other people, who’ve had similar experiences and their own “Heather Moments” and so I made a playlist inspired by “Heather” with songs with a similar feel. I actually have a deep connection to every single one of these songs and have even seen a few of them performed live. Yes, I saw Heather performed live and it was the happiest 4 minutes of my life! Anyways, here’s my playlist along with a few of the poems inspired by the song Heather. Fun Fact about some of these songs: 1) I was obsessed with “Can’t Let Go” when I was 10 and my crush wouldn’t notice me. 2) Look Away was on repeat in my CD Player when I broke up with my ex at 15 and it wasn’t a week before he went out with that girl he told me “I shouldn’t worry about” 3) One of the first songs I learned to play on the keyboard when I was 13 was “Words Get in the Way” 4) This is probably the most embarrassing fact but I crashed into the pole at work while I was blasting “Traitor” from my car. And 5) I was obsessed with the song “Silver Springs” this year and had it on repeat and even translated it into Spanish to see how it sounded.
Also, I’ve included link via spotify and youtube for your listening pleasure.

I WISH I WERE HEATHER playlist:

• Back to Black-Amy Winehouse
• Better than Revenge- Taylor Swift
• Can’t Let Go-Mariah Carey
• Checkmate- Conan Gray
• Coincidence-Sabrina Carpenter
  Dancing on my Own-Tove Lo
  Deja Vu- Olivia Rodrigo
• Driver’s License- Olivia Rodrigo
• Glimpse of Us- Joji
• Good Enough-Maisie Peters
• Heather- Conan Gray
• John Hughes Movie- Maisie Peters
  Lacy- Olivia Rodrigo
• Lookalike- Conan Gray
• Look Away- Chicago
• Lost the Breakup- Maisie Peters
• Lucid Dreams- Juice WRLD
• Movies- Conan Gray
• Objection-Shakira
• Opposite- Sabrina Carpenter
• She’s All I Wanna Be- Tate McRae
• Silver Springs- Fleetwood Mac
• Slow Dancing in the Dark- Joji
  24.Taste- Sabrina Carpenter
• That’s the Kind of Woman- Julia Michaels
• The Exit-Conan Gray
• Traitor- Olivia Rodrigo
• Villiian- Maisie Peters
• Words Get In the Way- Gloria Estefan