Listening to Music
The Girl Next Door Podcast
Kelsey Wharton
4.8 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Today we have a lot to stay about listening to music. From our different experiences growing up with music to how we listen today and how musical we are (or aren't). Plus we meander through musical gate-keeping and the joy of vibe playlist.
Friends of the Show can listen to us chat about how our kids are listening to music. Spicy opinions ahead!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Girl Next Door. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Erica and I'm Kelsey. |
| 0:06.8 | In every episode, we bring our different perspectives to candid conversations that feel like chatting with good friends. |
| 0:13.2 | We started this show years ago when we were next door neighbors and still haven't run out of things to talk and laugh about yet. |
| 0:20.0 | Today's episode is all about music, |
| 0:23.1 | like music in general. If and how we listen to it, some of our current favorites, I don't |
| 0:28.1 | feel like we've talked about this very much on the show. So this is good. And our experience |
| 0:32.6 | with musical instruments, we do have a fun episode coming out next week, also getting more |
| 0:37.3 | specifically into |
| 0:38.5 | the music that kind of shaped our lives and our personal discographies. So if you want a deeper |
| 0:44.3 | dive, join us for that one. And if you're a friend of the show over on Patreon, make sure you |
| 0:49.3 | listen over there or get that version into your regular podcast feed because we have an extra |
| 0:53.8 | discussion for you in that version of the episode where we will be talking all about our kids and music. And I'm going to get spicy. I'm going to tell you right now. I love it. I have thoughts. I have thoughts. Okay. Let's do our usual memory lane reminiscing and think for a minute about the role music played in your life growing up, |
| 1:11.6 | kind of in your household. What were you listening to? Yeah. So this was interesting for me to think |
| 1:17.7 | about. So music I feel like was actually a pretty big part of my childhood. My dad, friend and |
| 1:24.1 | listener of the show, Chip Kid, shout out, loves music. He actually has a really big |
| 1:29.4 | record collection. We have a whole closet at home that's the record closet. And so I have really |
| 1:35.5 | fond memories of listening to records like Elvis, the Beach Boys, Blondie, my sister and I |
| 1:41.9 | dancing around to those records, things like that. And then I grew up in |
| 1:46.2 | Austin, live music capital of the world. And like in the 90s when it was still under the radar |
| 1:52.3 | and it wasn't just so commercial and so crowded. |
| 1:56.8 | Yeah. So there were also great local radio stations that only being away appreciate |
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