If you can look past the cringe of millennials in the early days of the internet, you’ll find something that the modern world has lost: hope. When the millennial generation was in their teens and early 20s the future looked bright for humanity, for technology, for living wild and free, and for being young forever. In the current state of the world, millennial optimism-core, a nostalgic longing for the blind hope we used to have, has become a popular aesthetic. 

This playlist is the soundtrack to the era of skinny jeans and infinity scarves, of delusional confidence that our YouTube channels would blow up, of daydreaming of moving into a big one bedroom apartment in the city, and dancing like everything was gonna be okay.