This is another song where the chorus gets stuck in my head.
Tag: Music
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Earworm Wednesday: It’s from that Movie, Right?
“Everybody Wants to Rule the World” was suggested by my daughter, who associates this song with the end of Real Genius. It took me a couple of minutes to realize that this song does play at the end of that movie, you know, when all the kids are jumping in the popcorn that exploded out of that professor’s house. For some reason I thought this song played at the end of a John Huges movie, like The Breakfast Club. (I was thinking of “Don’t You (Forget About Me.” which I might use next week.)
Anyway, the kid hates how easy this song gets stuck in her head. My memory of it is listening to it on the radio when my Mom was driving me around in her Chevette in the late 80’s. We might have been on our way to the J.C. Penny’s at Six Flags Mall to buy me a pair senseable slacks.
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Earworm Thursday: I Hear this Song When I’m Running Late
I watched the original Adventures in Babysitting the other night, and this song plays a prominent role in the ending of the movie. But on a much larger level, this is song has the sound of what I feel when I’m running late, but still in control of the situation.
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Earworm Thursday: It Makes Me Think of Weddings
I’m not a fan of Daft Punk, but I don’t hate them either. They exist in the world, and they don’t make things worse, so more power to them. So, being that I know virtually nothing about them, this song is the only thing I now about them. If I hear it once, it does get stuck in my head, but that might be more the fault of Pharrell’s vocals, than Daft Punk.
What I do know is that at one point I head this song all the time, and hearing it at weddings is the memory that most jumps out in my mind. Meaning, for me, this is a song I expect to hear at a wedding. Not that it always happens, but it’s what I expect.
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Earworm Thursday – “Yeyo” by Esquivel
I love this song! It always puts me in a better mood, and I know I want this song played at my funeral.
My best friend from high school, who has always had much better taste in music than me, found a greatest hits album of Esquivel, and we just loved the hell out of it. To this day, I am still surprised that Esquivel isn’t more renowned. His stuff is great.
