First Love Mixtape: Side A (Encore)

This episode of Modern Love, hosted by Anna Martin, revisits a 2022 episode featuring the essay "What Lou Reed Taught Me About Love" by Lisa Selin Davis, read by Kristen Potter, about how the song "I'll Be Your Mirror" shaped her understanding of love during a summer of self-discovery and first romance. The episode also includes interviews with Mia Lee and Dan Jones, who share the songs that taught them about love as teenagers: Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" and The Bee Gees' "Staying Alive," respectively. Anna Martin concludes the episode by sharing her own formative song, Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are," and announces that next week's episode will feature listener stories about songs that taught them about love.