1. We are Never Ever
Getting Back Together by Taylor Swift
We here in the Starlight family like T. Swift. We like to
sing along with all her songs. On our most recent trip to San Francisco for a
lacrosse tournament, we spent most of our time with a couple of other families.
One of the families brought their 20-year-old daughter who is on summer break
from University. One day she turns to me and says “Are you the kind of family
that just burst into song at random moments?” Yes, yes we are. I like that
about us.
2. Mull of Kintyre
by Wings
X loved bagpipes. So do I; my dad used to play them in a
marching band. My parents hired a piper to pipe us back up the aisle at our
wedding; X cried. When the boys were small and couldn’t get back to sleep, this
was his go-to song to sing to them. I don’t always think nice things or have
good memories when it comes to X, but he was mostly a good person who loved his
kids.
3. Keep Breathing
by Ingrid Michaelson
In recent years, I have tended toward a more mellow sound
for the most part. I also really like to sing along with this song. The song
itself is only 17 lines long and six of those are “All we can do is keep
breathing” so the memorization of the words didn’t take too terribly long. Plus
it reminds me that all we can do is keep breathing, though you really have to
read between the lines to find that message.
4. Hurricane by
Lisa Loeb
When I was a teenager I listened to a lot of The Cure and
The Smiths. I also had my head half-shaved. (It was the 80s though, so one half
was shaved and the other half was backcombed and sprayed as big as I could get
it.) I tried to give off the illusion that I lived an alternative lifestyle
because I didn’t want to look and be like every single other girl in the entire
school. It worked, sometimes too well as people often found me intimidating.
Behind closed doors, I also had a collection of Corey Hart, Madonna, Cyndi
Lauper, Menudo, Beastie Boys, Duran Duran, LL Cool J, Prince, Twisted Sister,
and Def Leppard. I was all over the place.
But Lisa Loeb, her music reminds me of my shaved head and my
first boyfriend and my first job and having Mr. Sub every day at lunch and
learning to drive and talking on the phone for hours to people I just saw and playing basketball with my brother in the backyard and baggy pants with
cinched ankles and coloured mascara.
5. Levitate by
Hadouken!
Sometimes I like my music to be loud and fast. There is a
drum solo in this song that I find impossible not to take my hands off the
steering wheel to air drum.
Did I cheat? Did I just press forward until I found a song I
liked? Yep. Sure did. I broke the rules to my own game. It’s only fair though,
because a lot of the music on my iTunes is the boys’ music. I have Disney and
the Spongebob Squarepants movie soundtrack from when they were young and all
kinds of bands I’ve never even heard of from more recently. Children of Bodom?
What the hell is that? Does Avenged Sevenfold sound like a band I would listen
to? How about Black Veil Brides? My parents banned metal from my house when I
was young; I obviously have not done the same.
There is no natural end to this post. It just keeps going on
and on. Sorry.
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