Greetings my kindhearted and sweet friends, 

I guess the motivation to blog has just been hitting recently – I think I’ve just been a little bit happier, who knows. But I’ve mostly been focusing on the small joys (shameless plug to my last post!)

Today was one of those Saturdays that feel like Sundays, in the best way, because now that I remember that I have one more day off tomorrow, I’m even happier and lighter. I spent most of the day sleeping to be fair, and then I got a delicious hazelnut coffee and did some lowkey work. But my sweet friend Sabiha spontaneously asked to watch the movie Anyone But You, and I absolutely love spontaneous and lowkey plans – there’s something so sweet about someone saying “Hey, I had some extra time, and I thought about spending it with you” and I feel so honored. I just came back from the movie, and it was the perfect equation.

Turns out: Best friends + an overpriced drink at the movie theater bar + A romcom movie with fake dating, beautiful people, and gorgeous scenery = Happiness 

It was one of those sweet movies that make you feel so happy afterward, like there’s so much hope in the world. I feel like everyone I know has been struggling with sadness and loneliness lately, but then you sit and watch a two-hour movie about two people falling in love and it’s like “you know what, things are going to be okay.”

So on the way home I listened to the Anyone But You soundtrack, and one of the songs is called “What Does Love Sound Like?” and I started thinking: What does love (to Sandhya) sound like? 

I always imagine myself in a romcom – going through life as a main character, buying myself flowers at the farmers market, going on self-dates, buying my favorite coffee to make me happy, and spending time with people I love. But mostly, I have the biggest and brightest rose-colored glasses ever. I had a whole conversation with my friend yesterday about how easily I get really happy (and in turn bummed out/upset/rage-y too, oops). But one thing about me is that I feel really deeply, and so I made a list of all the songs that will 100% be in my romcom movie. 

Sidenote, don’t I look like a main character in a romcom in the picture I chose? #Barbie

Most of these songs are ones that make me feel like I’m falling in love, some feel like I’ll never recover from the heartbreak, some make me feel like there is hope out there, but all of them are what it feels like to be inside my brain. So, if you ever read one of my blog posts and thought “Wow Sandhya is so unbelievably wholesome, charismatic, fun, and lovely,” then 1) good job you’re correct 🙂but also 2) here is the perfect playlist to understand me better.

I organized the playlist based on the way I envision the Sandhya romcom movie going. I’m a sucker for the “She Fell First, but He Fell Harder” trope because yes, I do usually fall first, but real talk y’all, I’m worth falling for 💗

The Beginning 

These are songs that I’d play in the beginning of the movie, when you’re getting to know me, the main character, and you’re trying to figure out what she’s all about. This is when you learn she’s a lawyer and she’s pretty happy with her life, but maybe she’s been unlucky in love, maybe she’s healing from a heartbreak, maybe it’s not even on her mind, but there’s a little bit of hope, nonetheless.

• What Does Love Sound Like? – Este Haim, Christopher Stracey
• My Kind – Hilary Duff
• Heartfirst – Kelsea Ballerini
• Wildest Dreams – Taylor Swift
• We’ll Figure It Out – Angie Jaree

Meet the Love Interest

Not really sure how we’ll meet – I’m a big meet-cute person, so somehow that has to happen. Coffee shop? Bookstore? The Lego Store? Art Museum? The possibilities are endless…

• Prom – Riah 
• Stop Thinking About You – Betty Who
• Steal the Show – Lauv
• Electric Touch – Taylor Swift and Fall Out Boy

We’re Dating and It’s Kind of Great

There’s that shift from “Oh this person is really cool” to that moment when you’re leaving a date or a hangout and you’re going through it over and over in your head and you want to call your best friend and tell them everything about the date, from the moment you met to the moment you left. The peak of the excitement

• Heat Waves – Glass Animals
• Sparks Fly – Taylor Swift
• Call It What You Want – Taylor Swift 
• Mood Ring – Kira Kosarin

Falling in Love(?!)

This is the “Shoot, I guess I’m into him” portion of the movie. We are spending all our time together. He’s planning cute dates very Sandhya-coded (i.e. picnics in the park, aquariums, campfire and smores, drive in movies, day trips to gardens – and if it’s in the DMV then at Longwood Gardens). This is the part of the movie where I roll down the windows and let the wind mess up my hair because I don’t even care if my hair flies all over the place or gets stuck on my lip gloss. This is the part when we’re talking for hours, and he just watches me talk because he loves that I can just ramble on about random things. This is the “hey I thought of you and went to a coffee shop and got your favorite coffee and pastry” part of the movie. 

• I Believe – Jonas Brothers
• Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol
• Going Home – The Aces 

The Conflict

Naturally there’s conflict. I don’t want it to be a really bad conflict and I don’t want either of us to make some unforgivable mistake. It is probably a timing thing…

• Night Changes – One Direction (instrumental)
• Not the Same – The Aces
• What Falling in Love Is For – Emmit Fenn
• Drops of Jupiter – Train

The Resolution

Obviously, whatever the issue is gets resolved (sorry this is so vague, what am I supposed to do if I don’t even know what the conflict is yet)

• Falling Into Place – Leah Nobel
• I’ve Loved You for So Long – The Aces  
• I Love You, You Idiot – Este Haim, Christopher Stracey

Ironically, last week I also drafted a blog post about 10 songs that I love that don’t really have any common theme; some of them are songs that gut me emotionally, some pump me up, some make me unexpectedly happy, but all the songs are on repeat. Turns out, the songs overlap quite a bit and I guess I was building the playlist for my movie.

Let me know what you all think and take a listen to The Playlist I created for my movie. It’s an hour and 20 minutes long – not bad! (See embedded link below!)

I think this is actually the perfect way to get to know me – so if you are inclined, make a playlist of your favorite songs or a playlist to the movie about your life and DM me the link, I’d love to listen to it 💗 And if any of you know someone in Hollywood who would want to make this movie of me/with me, let me know!

Until next time!

xo

Sandhya

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