Love you like a love song…

 ”Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.” – Victor Hugo

Topical Tuesdays

I have a few friends who like to blog – a few I’ve been in blog projects with before, and we all love to write! Each of us are on a different journey within our separate lives, but want to continue to share the blogging journey with each other! We’re going to take turns coming up with a topic every Tuesday and we each have to blog about it by the end of that day and then we will post links to each others’ blogs. That way we can each share our different perspectives on the same topic with each other, and any readers that are interested in what we have to say!

We welcome our new friend, Nicole, to our blogging experience!! 

My fellow bloggers are:

Nicole
Sara
Jenn
Wendy

I was the one picking the topic this week!  I asked:  We all love music, right?! Music makes the world go ’round!! BUT – there’s that one song that you wake up in the middle of the night, and it’s in your head, and it just won’t leave. What is that song?

Recently I’ve noticed that I’ve been listening to much different types of music than I have in the past.  It has a LOT to do with my kids, I’m sure!  When I was younger, I would dance around and sing to my Grandma’s Camelot recordings, and to my parents CD’s, which ranged from Cats and Le Mis to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers to Mozart.  When I was first able to pick out my own music, I had Debbie Gibson and Cyndi Lauper records, then it moved on to Christian rock, you know – stuff like DC Talk, Michael W. Smith and Amy Grant.  Later, it was still Christian music, but leaning towards the alternative and heavy metal side of things…  Hoi Polloi, Steve Taylor, Audio Adrenaline, Jars Of Clay, Skillet, P.O.D, and Sixpense None The Richer.  When I reached High School, I was digging on all of that, and more…  Nirvana, Del Amitri, Tonic, a little bit of Metallica, Sevendust and Pearl Jam thrown in for good measure.  My Senior year alone, I was part of 4 (or was it 5) different choirs and theatre.  I sang everything from classical pieces, jazz and jingles, to more modern pieces and belted my little heart out on-stage.  I tell you, during that time of my life, I don’t ever remember waking up in the middle of the night singing a song.  Even though the majority of my life at the time, was music. 

Over the years I have added new music here and there.  Different varieties from Jeff Buckley to ICP (Jeff Buckley is amazing, and ICP is horrid, but it was a difficult time in my life, and it’s trashy, angry and loud).  I love Ani DiFranco and Tori Amos.  I turn it up loud when Disturbed comes on.  I sing along to every lyric to Fiest.  I turn it up loud AND sing along to every lyric when I listen to Muse!!  I could go on forever…  Music is such a huge part of my life.  Now, most recently I’ve started to love a type of music that I never thought I would – I’m laughing out loud as I write this, but I LOVE The Black Eyed Peas.  My kids have heard their songs on different movies, and TV shows, and we have all gotten hooked to the good dance beats and funkiness of it all.  Plus, every once in a while, I like to pretend I can sing like Fergie and be “Fergalicious”, even though she does NOT have a voice that would move mountains!!  It’s still just fun and funky!  Speaking of great voices, though, give me a little Harry Connick Jr. and I will swoon.  It’s like butta’! 

Let’s go back around to the topic at hand, though.  None of the bands that I love seem to repeat incessantly in my head.  More often than I care to say, the songs that repeated through my head were along the lines of WonderPets and Backyardigans songs!  Yes, I am a Mommy, and my kids watched those shows over and over.  Now my kids are a little older, and we’ve been watching a lot of Disney Channel.  The kids have started watching all the shows like, Good Luck Charlie and Wizards of Waverly Place.  Because the main actresses on those shows are also musicians Disney tends to play/overplay certain popular songs they’ve done.  What’s funny is that the song that plays quite often in my head, doesn’t drive me crazy, like the WonderPets always did.  I find myself singing along to it, and keep wondering in my head if I should just go and buy the album, or buy the single!!  I currently have repeating over and over in my head – I wake up in the middle of the night, singing, ‘I Love You Like A Love Song’ by Selena Gomez and the Scene.

 

It actually isn’t all that bad…  It makes me smile!  It’s got a good beat, and she has a pretty voice!  …and occasionally when I feel like serenading Aaron, I sing in my most alluring Selena Gomez voice, ‘I-I love you like a love song, bay-be and I keep hittin’ repeat, peat, peat, peat, peat.”

Maybe it can be stuck in your head now, and I’ll move on to some new Disney Diva’s song, that I never thought I would like!!

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