Let The Bad Air Out
This is a mixtape for a generation standing at the edge of grief and change. As the baby boomer era wanes and power is pried from hands that have clung too long, we inherit a world heavy with loss. Nearly one in five Americans has mourned in just the past five years, and the tide will only rise—cresting by 2030, but not ending there.
We are a sad generation living in a sad time. These songs name that reality: the pressure, the darkness, the bells tolling, the weight of history pressing down. But they also carry the charge of release—the call to let the bad air out.
This is not just catharsis, but a summons. To breathe together. To grieve together. To remember that only in unity can we face the pain that is here and the pain that is still coming. This is the sound of a people refusing to collapse under sorrow, choosing instead to exhale and rise.
May these songs steady you as the ground shifts. May they give you courage to face the dark, breath to release what poisons, and strength to keep going. And may they remind you that even in the heaviest air, we can still breathe together.