Danceachusetts

Moments

Dec 31

Right after I graduated from college, I moved into a big old house by the Charles River in Watertown, MA, a suburb of Boston. A fun fact about me is that I’ve had over 30 roommates in my life (I honestly lost track of the exact number, but it’s somewhere around 35 I think) and the majority of them came from the five years I was living in that house—which we lovingly referred to as “14T.”

At 14T, I lived with best friends, boyfriends, friends-of-friends, and Craigslist strangers who quickly turned into friends, and it’s where some of my favorite and most fun memories of my 20s took place. We had a lot of good times in that house, drank a lot of jug wine, and threw a lot of parties—the most epic one taking place on New Year’s Eve 2008.

My roommates and I dressed to the nines, decked the halls with gold everything, made fancy appetizers and themed cocktails, and stuffed as many of our friends as we could into our living room to ring in the New Year. Dick Clark counted us down and as the clock struck midnight, we cued up the playlist I had spent weeks preparing called “Danceachusetts” (you know, Dance + Massachusetts) and proceeded to dance in a sweaty mess atop broken champagne flutes until 6am. It was absolutely one of the most fun nights of my life.

While I don’t anticipate having anywhere near as much fun this New Year’s Eve (nor can my body handle that level of debauchery anymore), I thought it would be fun to bring my original Danceachusetts playlists into Spotify (I ended up making a volume two & three at one point too).

If you were at that epic 14T New Year’s Eve Party of 2008, I hope listening to Danceachusetts brings back fond memories of better times dancing to Synthia by FM Belfast about 3,000 times…and being just as excited every single time it came on.

So, for your aughts-hipster-dance-music-listening-pleasure, I present all 3 volumes of Danceachusetts on Spotify:

Danceachusetts v!
Danceachusetts v!!
Danceachusetts v!!!

Happy New Year—I hope you party like it’s 2008! 🥂🎉