We at Vogue have nothing but admiration for people who thrive in winter. It’s easy to be in a good mood when it’s warm out and the leaves are green, but how do you summon cheer when it’s freezing, the trees are bare, and every subway ride is a jam-packed sauna of people in bulky coats?
Well, if you’re a Vogue staffer, keeping one great song on repeat sure helps. Below, find a round-up of the songs giving us crucial, hard-to-source dopamine as fall officially gives way to winter. Happy listening!
“Roller Girl,” Anna Karina
’60s French pop is reliably good at getting me out of bed when I’d much rather sleep the day away (yes, seasonal depression eventually comes for us even in Los Angeles), and this 1967 hit by Anna Karina, the Danish-French actress and director who embodied the French New Wave in Jean-Luc Godard’s films, is the perfect sexy-yet-upbeat soundtrack for a quick shower, a hot cup of coffee, and a long drive to some random part of Southern California to pick up a vintage dinette set from Craigslist. —Emma Specter, culture writer
“More Than You,” Anita Baker
