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Rice’s social media team had a simple question for students: What’s playing on your headphones right now?

By Deverly Pérez

What does a study session sound like in 2026? Earlier this year, Rice’s social media team wandered campus with a microphone and a simple question for students: What’s playing on your headphones right now? The answers span eras and genres to create a playlist as eclectic as Rice itself. Explore these songs yourself on our specially made Spotify playlist.

  • “LES” by Childish Gambino
  • “Where’s My Love” by SYML
  • “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” by The Beatles
  • Madison Beer
  • “Pure/Honey” by Beyoncé
  • Radiohead
  • A rendition of Michael Jackson’s “Dirty Diana” by The Jackson State Sonic Boom of the South
  • “Wavy” by Karan Aujla
  • “S-Class” by Stray Kids
  • Piano Sonata No. 4 by Alexander Scriabin
  • “All That She Wants” by Ace of Base
  • “Lord Knows” by Drake feat. Rick Ross
  • “Couldn’t Make It Any Harder” by Sabrina Carpenter
  • “Going Bad” by Meek Mill feat. Drake

From the Spring 2026 issue of Rice Magazine