Old School Gemini DeJamz

Nadine DeCero, Social Media Editor • May 19, 2024

The day has finally come. I am finally fulfilling my physiological need to curate a playlist and share it with the most loyal DeJamz readers. Relishing aside, I am many things, but I am a Gemini woman above all else. In honor of Gemini season starting on May 21, here is a playlist full of songs from Gemini artists. While I would love to make this DeJamz only Kendrick Lamar, who I owe credit to for the title, I’m instead going back in time and kicking it old school.

“Planets of the Universe (Demo)” by Fleetwood Mac

Stevie Nicks if you’re reading this, which I know you are, you are sick and twisted. And for that, I love you. You make me proud to be a Gemini woman. In this demo, we hear the same anger in Nicks’ voice that we hear in the live version of Silver Springs from 1997 (if you know, you know), accompanied by a haunting piano track. Personally, I’m scared of this song, but I’m also in love with it. I have no choice but to declare this the official anthem for those who are going through a breakup with a person you never actually dated.

“On the Way” by Paul McCartney

Look, I don’t know what McCartney was on when he was recording this album. I mean, look at his face. That’s not the face of someone who can operate a motor vehicle. But I’m not complaining if it means we got this song out of it. In true Gemini man fashion, McCartney is just singing about promises he can’t keep: “But it would have been a lie if I said that I can please you every moment that I try.” Typical Gemini man. I’ll let it slide because the bass on here is just too groovy.

“Wedding Song” by Bob Dylan

“And if there is eternity, I’ll love you there again.” Play this song at my wedding, funeral, birth of my first child, the day Frank Ocean drops new music – or any other major life event. I don’t understand what Bob Dylan is talking about most of the time because I am a 20-year-old teenage girl and not a man from Minnesota who sings the blues, but when Bob Dylan talks about love, that’s something I can understand. This is also good exposure therapy for me to include this in the playlist because this is totally a song I would like to gatekeep. But to the DeJamz readers, I’ll give anything.

“Place to Be” by Nick Drake

My brother and I were sitting in Pequod’s brainstorming Gemini singers when he brought up Nick Drake. I like to argue, so I made up a lie and said that he wasn’t a Gemini, but a Libra. I had no idea what I was talking about. I just said the first thing that came to mind and prayed my feminine intuition was right — and it wasn’t. So, this song is dedicated to my brother, who is also named Nick, and to whom I owe my music taste. The only problem I have with this song is that it’s too short. How are you going to make an album with 11 songs and it’s only 28 minutes? Play this song on a summer day when there’s a sunbeam shining through your window and thank the Geminis.

“Summer Wine” by Nancy Sinatra ft. Lee Hazlewood

The Gemini in question here is, of course, Nancy Sinatra. While I could’ve used a Nancy Sinatra song that doesn’t have a feature, this song is just too good not to talk about. I first heard this song in summer 2022, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that it changed the trajectory of my summer and my life. There’s nothing I love more than a song that really tells a story, and “Summer Wine” tells the story of a seductive Nancy Sinatra robbing a man … or drugging him? Both? It’s the duality of the Gemini.

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