Try as you might, you won’t find any pictures of Courtney running with headphones. Not because she doesn’t listen to music when she runs but because she pockets her earplugs whenever she sees a cameraman.
That’s not entirely true, but it is funny to imagine Courtney quickly hiding her headphones and chanting robot-robot-robot as she passes a photographer on the trail. Courtney does listen to music, of course, and it’ll come as no surprise that the playlist she created for this issue of POSSESSED is loaded with up-tempo, good-time hits. You will find no Elliot Smith, no Radiohead, no Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and no Joy Division on this playlist. It’s strictly good vibes, and it kicks off with the classic Queen anthem ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’, which could’ve been written for Courtney were she not born seven years after its release.
If you’re reading this department on the Satisfy website, you can click on through to the playlist and listen at your leisure. However, if you’re reading the print version of POSSESSED, that sucks because you’ll have to sing the songs yourself.
