Coffee Cola

This song is pure positivity to me. A lot of people I’ve showed it to find it kind of annoying, but for me the association is deeply personal. When I was 22 I was freshly graduated and on top of the world. I was living in China at the time, employed, had an apartment, a great social life… things were really looking up. Somehow I came across this song, and was totally hooked. I listened an unhealthy amount of times and even tried out the titular coffee and Coca Cola combo to keep up with the rigors of employed life. It wasn’t very good and I didn’t think the song was really an endorsement for it anyway. But I remember listening to this song over and over in my apartment. And I clearly remember thinking I didn’t have a single thing to be worried about those days. And I strongly associate this song with those times. Later in my 20s life kind of hit me like a freight train and I took a while to find stability and the positivity that comes with that. Maybe it is inevitable to become jaded once the realities of adulthood hit people, but I certainly struggled with maintaining a positive outlook and overall happiness. For a long time, and even now to an extent, I’ve been hesitant to listen to this song. I still love it dearly, but it’s out of a desire to preserve that association with good times that I kept myself from listening to it. I felt that if I listened to it when I wasn’t in a positive mental state, that it would erode that connection to those memories that makes it so meaningful to me. So even today from the first few notes the emotions and memories come flooding in. I often find myself pausing it within a few seconds to process the feelings and sensations for a moment. I think it also helps to savor them. It’s a sort of goofy song and I honestly still don’t even really know what it’s about. But regardless of what the artist was actually trying to express with this song, for me it has taken a significance totally of its own and unrelated. For me it’s a trip back, even just in memory, to the last time I really felt like I didn’t have a single thing to be worried about.