We all know the unspoken rule of the pregame: if you get the aux, you don’t get experimental. You play crowd-pleasers.
Barnard junior Emma Carter ignored all of that.
After being handed the aux at a Friday night pregame, Carter reportedly “felt confident enough to take a risk.” According to sources, the vibe had been carefully curated—Charli XCX, Kendrick, a little throwback Rihanna—until, without warning, the opening of “Feathered Indians” by Tyler Childers started playing (good song btw).
“At first I thought it was ironic,” one attendee said. “Like, okay, she’s doing a bit. But then she didn’t skip it.”
She did not skip it.
Instead, Carter reportedly queued up “Tennessee Whisky” immediately after, at which point multiple guests grumbled and one person was seen whispering, “Is this allowed?”
“I just wanted to bring a little bit of home into the space,” Carter later explained, citing her upbringing “somewhere below Pennsylvania.” “Also, like, it kind of eats.”
Sources confirm it was not received as something that “eats.”
The situation escalated when Carter, described by witnesses as “alarmingly committed to the bit,” played a third track—reportedly something “Luke Bryan adjacent”—prompting what attendees are calling a “soft but decisive aux coup.” The phone was removed. The damage was done.
“I’ve never seen someone lose social capital that quickly,” said one junior. “Like she’s been here three years. She knows we don’t vibe with that republican music. Now I’m questioning if she’s secretly a Trumpie.”
Carter was not formally asked to step off aux and has since been relegated to hovering near the kitchen, nodding along to music she did not choose.
As of Sunday morning, Carter posted an Instagram close friend’s story reading “y’all are weak,” followed by a photo of her at a Dolly concert as a kid, suggesting little to no remorse.
Several attendees were discovered to have The Chicks and Red Clay Strays saved on Spotify—but clarified it is for “private listening only, never aux.
