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AOL Love Songs
Behind The Album
To everyone who’s ever hovered over the “Send” button, typed out a heart-emoji, or dared to say “I like you” in green font: this EP is for you. “AOL Love Songs” is a love letter to those seismic moments of first love—when your heart raced for your high school crush, and the world shrank to the size of your local area code. I remember those nights logged onto AOL Instant Messenger, the ringtone announcing a ping from someone you couldn’t stop thinking about. I also remember the ache when the chat window closed—those first tastebuds of heartbreak. But in that push and pull, when joy collided with longing, you learn what love really feels like. This EP is a time capsule of that beautiful, messy, unstoppable teenage heart.
High school love is wild — it can make you feel like you’re invincible one second and completely shattered the next. For me, the highs and lows of those years were lived out in AOL chat boxes, away messages, and late-night calls I didn’t want to end. This EP is about that rollercoaster: the rush of your first crush, the heartbreak of betrayal, the sting of mistrust, and the peace of finding someone who feels like home.
These songs come from real experiences — moments that once felt impossible to put into words. Every song represents one of the 4 years of high school. Music became the only way I knew how to process it all.
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The Songs
Freshman Year: brb… y3ll!n’ @ m0m 2 g3t 0ff th3 l@ndl!n3… n33d 2 t3ll u h0w much i luv u
I wrote this song about my teenage years. Back in high school and back in the earlier days of the internet. Before texting, smartphones, and social media. It’s funny to think about, back in like 2005 - 2009 I used to use AOL to message friends. If you don't know what AOL is, it was basically an app to text people on the computer lol. You would sign on, see who’s online and you could only talk to ppl online and who you were friends with. You could have away messages and stuff like that lol. Anyway, when you’re a kid, that kind of stuff is pretty exciting. Being able to talk to your crush behind a screen. Being so nervous to send a message, being so anxious for them to reply, and getting a rush of excitement when they do reply. I remember having crushes in high school and being so nervous to talk to them. On top of that you have all the high school drama. High school is a terrible place lol. But I wrote this song about my first crush and how different it used to be to communicate with each other and how different it feels when you’re that young experiencing liking someone for the first time. It feels corny and cheesy, but you get these butterflies when you talk to them, and can't help but want to talk to them all the time. I used to talk on AOL and on the phone to my crush all night after school. It’s also funny cause back in the day, AOL would take up a lot of internet so no one else could really use anything else unless you had great internet lol. It’s just funny for me to look back on. Young love is so innocent. You don't need anything else but their company and I think that's something you can kind of lose sight of as you grow older. I think it happens to everyone, you start to look back at your younger years, and miss how things used to be. You know nostalgia. That’s how I feel at
least. I miss the days of AOL, it felt more simple. Idk lol. I hope you like the song.
Sophomore Year: pl@ns?? u + me + inf1n1ty
I think the lyrics of this song speak for themselves. This is one of my favorite feel good songs i've ever written. It's about being with the one person in your life that feels like home. The one person you can be with where you feel like you're living life to the fullest no matter where you are. This is about love at first sight, holding onto that love, and never letting go. When you find that unconditional love, never let go.
Junior Year: n0w u w@nt m3 b@ck? l0l gfy
I wrote this song about being cheated on in a relationship. At least this is from my perspective. I remember always being asked where I am and who I'm with. At the time I thought it was just insecurities which is totally fine I respect that but then it would progress to questions like “who are you texting?”, “let me see your phone”, and other things like that. I didn't really understand it at first until I found out I was being cheated on. I found out all the nervous questions I was being asked were just made up because they were exactly what they were doing wrong in the relationship. Relationships are hard, and finding trust can be difficult, so when your trust gets broken, I can understand how that hurts so much. This song is about getting your trust and heart broken, and knowing you deserve better.
Senior Year: g4g ttyl… th!rd 3y3 bl!nd 0n r3p34t
This song is about the feelings you experience after being cheated on. It’s cliche to write about, but it’s always the ones your significant other tells you not to worry about. The ones they promise are just friends or something like that. In this case, you try to tell them it doesn't seem right and something seems off but you do your best to try not to stress about it. Then you find out all your worst fears are reality… Unfortunately there's nothing you can do about it. Youre heart broken, in the worst way possible, and you see the person you love with someone they were unfaithful with. That really breaks a person's mental down. Then a funny thing happens.
They reach back out to you after a few weeks apologizing and saying they made a mistake. They find out the person wasn't who they thought they were and now want to come back to you for comfort. You start noticing they’re doing everything you wanted to see, they seem like they’d do anything to get you back and forgive their actions. These moments are almost worse than being cheated on… The person you love is trying, all you want to do is hold them in your arms and forget the past but life doesn't work like that. This song is about taking them back, not knowing if it’s the right decision, but because of the warmth you feel when you're with them and how lost you felt without them. Love is a deep word. It’s hard to define it. Sometimes, you have to work through fake love to find what you’re really
looking for.
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