By Erica Zhu ’23
As the 2022-2023 year comes to a close, an important question remains: what are the cheerful dwellers of Wyoming Seminary listening to? Opinator interviewed both the students and faculty on Sprague Avenue to uncover their music tastes:
Christian DeBellis ‘24: Wildflower Wildfire – Lana Del Rey
Ari Froehlich ‘24: California Dreamin’ – The Mamas and The Papas
Mr. Logan Chace: “Sorry, too busy.” & the new album by The National
Andrew Tulo ‘24: All For You – Amaria and Destin Conrad
Peyton Popple ’23: “Sound of Dino crying.”
Kate Soreth ’20: I bet on Losing Dogs – Mitski
Moira Poepperling ’25: Never Gonna Give You Up – Rick Roll
Rita Kupstas ’23: “Yes.”
Ms. Alexa Eidam: It Ain’t Over ‘Till It’s Over – Lenny Kravitz
Xavier Tereska ’27: Becoming the Last Names – Will Wood
Ben Carron ’23: “The Sweet sound of bus on pavement.”
Drew Mauriello ’23: “The lacrosse game and a Joji leak.”
Ms. Rachel Bartron: Thank God For You – Kane Brown and his Wife: “Music changes the atmosphere all the time.”
Paul Stevenson ’24: I Fought the Law – Bill Jean and Shut Up and Drive – Rihanna
Olivia Sekel ‘24: Illicit Affairs – Taylor Swift
Nicholas Shin ’23: Despacito – Luis Fonsi and Stay – Justin Beiber
Molly Kopetchny ’24: Crosby Stills, Nash, Stevie Nicks, and Joe Cocker
Tommy Majkowski ’25: “Classical Hip Hop.”
Alex Smulowitz(as Elvis) ‘25: “My own music of course.”
Mrs. Ellen Sherry: The Carpenters and other 70s music!
Ainsley Eidam ’23: Name of The Game – ABBA
Jacob Hamilton Nivert ’25: Me! – Taylor Swift x Brendon Urie and Hamilton Soundtrack
Helena Prusak ’23: “Beyonce.”
Leaf Hancuff ’23: You Ain’t Nothin but a Hound Dog in French
Mr. Floyd Bussie: Losing my Religion in French
Arthur Wang ’26: Raincoat – Kieron Lee and Chloe Ho
McKayla Williams ’24: Angelina – Lizzie McAlpine
Lily Roberti ’24: Mine – Taylor Swift
Bao “Bow Toza” To ’26: It Started to Rain – Shook
Xavier Flory ’24: “Tyler the Creator.”
Francesca Ramos ’23: “N-nothing?”
Gabe Rampp ’23: Dear Mr. Fantasy – Traffic
Ethan Burns ’27: “I’m listening to Freaks by Surf Curse.”
Brad McGinty ’25: Through The Fire and The Flames
Ian Poole ’22: “A lot of Billy Joel!”
Paige Kenewell ’24: Audiobook of Project Hail Mary
David Guetz ’24: Movies – Andromeda
Muriel Shaefer ’23: Don’t Stop The Music – Jaimie Cullum
Erica Zhu ‘23: Killshot(Slowed + Reverb) – Magdalena Bay
Sem students have good musical taste…or do they? As the summer rolls in, check out some of these hot songs and artists.