[Invisible Children Music: We firmly believe that music has a necessary role in giving social movements tremendous amounts of momentum. It is a universal language, and at Invisible Children, it’s important for us to be a part of that language.]

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Invisible Children has been (second) home to Krista Morgan for over a year now. She came in as our online Staff Writer right before we launched KONY 2012 (lol), and she helms the ship of everything social. Born/bred in San Diego, Krista is a mom to Hudson Fox and Gillian. She would like me to include that they were named after characters in The X-Files. COOL MOM ALERT.

As part of our series Five Songs That Matter To, Krista here provides the select tracks that have brought heavy significance into her life.

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Long live Natalie Maines. This song has been my mantra, my lullaby, and my happy place since they released it a decade ago. Don’t tell me how the original by Fleetwood Mac is better. Or the remake by Billy Corgan. I can’t hear you.

02. “Ceremony” – New Order (originally Joy Division – are we being technical?)
This song is contagious. My dad used to blare it from our tape deck while I was growing up and every time I hear it, I’m wearing Keds and dancing on the orange carpet in my old family room. I think I would put it as the final song on the soundtrack of my life.

This song single-handedly got me through 2009. It’s catchy, it’s oddly romantic, and it’s just begging for you to roll down the windows in your car, drive too fast, and scream the lyrics out loud. My life would suck without Kelly Clarkson.

The lyrics. This song kills me. It’s the ultimate love letter. I used to write out the lyrics at least one a month in my journal thinking that Dave Grohl was my soul mate. Seeing the Foo Fighters in concert is on my bucket list and if they played this, I would die and sob and die and sob and die. Plus it has the best video I’ve ever seen.

The Beach Boys are my spirit animal. I had to include at least one song of theirs on my list, and this one is classic and poetic and lovely. Everyone should play it for the first dance at their wedding. I didn’t, but if I could do it over, I would.
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