I did them all at once because I'm
Some of my choices also don't seem quite accurate, but OH WELL THAT IS JUST TOO TRAGIC, IS IT NOT?
1. Livin' La Vida Loca
Child of the 90s, what can I say except 'aren't you glad I didn't put Hit Me Baby One More Time'? Also, I was convinced it said ‘black cats
and voodoo dogs’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p47fEXGaba
2. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
The ONE song in my ex’s collection of ‘classic hits’ that actually made me sit up and pay attention. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ClCpfeIELw
3. Sisters, Sisters
My mom broke this one out whenever my
sister and I fought, so…a lot. Yes, White Christmas was a holiday staple at our
house. Just kidding. We watched it year round whenever we felt like it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG7x8HWbDzU
And here…because you deserve to be
happy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDyybi7t634
4. Safe in Your Arms, Dear Jesus
Singing this to myself when I’m lost enables me to calm down enough to actually find my way (I’m not orientationally
challenged. I am completely orientationally deficient). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgu-uZ9wAuw
5. Ode to Joy
Children won’t stop playing it on the
piano. It’s the new ‘Let It Go’. I should be happy about that, but even
Beethoven wears eventually if you only ever hear the same 30 seconds of his. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wod-MudLNPA
6. Rule the World
He loves Walk Off the Earth and he
showed me this video. I love her preggy belly in it too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukigjUvwAR4
7. Paint the Town Green
I call this ‘The Anthem for the
Homesick’. It comforts me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_hw8r2MWXo
8. Isn’t It Kinda Fun
I don't have a song for that so here's one for my (as yet unknown) last love :-D .
Barring further notice, my future
husband is strongly recommended to utilize this song in his proposal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0As5d0hdmbA
9. Set Apart This Dream
I once got to spend an evening listening to this song on repeat while wearing a ballgown. I have scarcely ever felt more like I was in heaven. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU18VTPLdhM
10. Evolution of Man
Example rivals Eminem in ability to tell stories in rap and in choosing strings of assonant words, but somehow his lovey-doveyish
songs end up being the ones I love the most https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiNXtIh2cR4
11. Why Can’t the English
Wordiness. Logophilia. Contempt for
the uneducated masses. Need I say more? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAYUuspQ6BY
12. How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria
Musicals! What all other movies
wish they were I wish all other movies were. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-VRyQprlu8
13. Watch the Sun Come Up
Listen to the song. Watch the video.
Details will not be forthcoming.
P.S. Take your mind out of the gutter.
14. N/A so I give you (*cough* totally unrelated *cough*) Goodnight and Go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqjWodek8ZM
15. Hula Hoop
Round and round it bounces in my head
Such a catchy catchy song. Catchy
catchy song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYzQvj3icjs
16. Battle of the Five Armies
As a dedicated LoTR fan, this song crushed me... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8ir8rVl2Z4
17. Shut Up and Dance With Me
They stole the title for this song
from what I say at all parties. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JCLY0Rlx6Q
18. Rahadlakum
From the brazenly terrible movie Kismet (and yet I would watch it again. And probably again). Still, if you couldn't watch Howard Keel sing a legal textbook or if it does not make you laugh, then my sense of humor is West and yours is East and never the twain shall meet! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VwzxiB4kMw
P.S. Remember, Edmund was ready to sell all of his siblings for this stuff.
19. About Fortune
I was fortunate enough to hear the original lyrics of this song which were kind of raunchy. This version is disappointingly SFW, lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd0RGaclGh0
20. You're the Worst theme - 7:30 AM
I love the theme songs from my favorite TV shows. From Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (sing rap it with me!), to Malcolm in the Middle's You're Not the Boss of Me, to the iconic I'll Be There For You, to At Least It Was Here (Community), to the smashing Big Bang Theory song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV4QEHmbUVQ
21. Whistling Away the Dark
Julie Andrews in one of my favorite
movies and my favorite performance of hers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0of8-MxqVRY
22. Snowflake
Except that my friend sang it to me as
a parody about my (to him abominable) love of sugar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLnIYAtGs0M
23. Losing My Religion
Reminds me of nights spent choking in
smoke-filled bars with people I had nothing in common with. Makes me actually
nauseous so I won’t even link to it lest YouTube get any horrible ideas about
suggesting it to me.
24. Desi Girl
Bollywood dance troupe. Funnest dancing I ever did even if my thighs never hated me more.
25. Everything is Awesome!
Come on, it’s Lego AND Andy Samberg
being his goofy self! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StTqXEQ2l-Y
