Radio Rebel
Lilian Wible dives into her past and future for her passions regarding her grunge music interests
By: Ava Rotman, Legacy High School
Music is a universal language that has connected people from very different paths althroughout time. For rising junior, Lilian Wible growing up her father and grandfather influenced her music taste and her passions for it. From a very young age she’d listen to bands such as the Beatles with her grandfather, and she remembers always making fun of her father’s music taste while secretly loving it.
“I remember getting in my dad’s car and the Grateful Dead or Pearl Jam station would always be on, that would always be playing. And my dads the one that got me into having physical copies like Vinyl and CDs, which we both really got into during COVID because, when it first hit he saw people selling them on Facebook.” said Wible. 90s grunge, Wible’s favorite genre, has always been apart of her life due to her father’s influence.
During her time in intermediate school she often found she wasn’t able to share this taste in music with peers as they were listening to the newest hits that just dropped, genres she hadn’t personally indulged in, and would make fun of hers, often making her feel bad about herself as her music taste was really important to her. However, shes watched peers recently begin to expand their music horizons into older music, “This kid that I know who did make fun of me about it, I saw him when his phone was out and he was going through it listening to Jimi Hendrix in the hallway and I was like you made fun of me for liking him.”
The album, Live Through This by Holes, deeply resonates with Wible due to it encapsulating the experiences within society as the album discusses heavy topics such as sexual abuse and mental health struggles. A song from the album that Wible personally feels represents her is Miss World as she interprets the lyrics describing ‘not being taken seriously and just wanting to fit in’, by floating above the highschool struggles, and being liked like the popular girls. Wible said, “It really is just a meaningful album, not just to me, but I think it is a very meaningful album to society.”
Though she’s had so many things shes wanted to do with her life, music has always been Wible’s passion, and having been a major part of growing up thanks to her father and grandfather, she plans on pursuing music in some format for her future career. “I really think I want to do radio, like a radio station, and I see all these TikToks about college radio stations like ‘What I Played in a Day’ and I would love that because you introduce the song before it comes on and I just would love the behind the scenes. I love the technical stuff behind music too and what goes into making it.”