Here's a little anecdote from this morning to let you know that the power of music still shoots to the soul of a person, no matter how much record sales decline each year in this digital age.
I woke up early this morning, did some banking (in an actual bank!), ran some errands and topped it off with a croissant and a XXX vitamin water (my answer to coffee). It was quite the typical (and awful) start to a grownup week. Hello, rat race! Where do I throw up?
The next step might as well have been to go to a Ford dealership, buy a certified pre-owned Taurus and admit my dreams in life are dead.
Then, on the way to the actual office, my life hastily approaching the intersection of Lemming Boulevard and Automaton Avenue, KTU saved my week. They played 80s pop hit "I Wanna Have Some Fun" by Samantha Fox.
Samantha Fox?
All seemed right again. Not so much because the song is good or because I used to have a Samantha Fox poster in my room when I was a kid (next to a poster of Alyssa Milano, I'm just sayin). But rather, it was because there's not a more random song from childhood you could play. It turned my whole day around.
Here's the video just to get you going today.
And when the iPod started on a fresh set of shuffle for the unconventional long walk from the car to my desk to blog this story, it spit out "Heartbreaker" by Color Me Badd.
Argue all you want about the merits of allowing an iPod to contain Color Me Badd songs, but at least my Monday wasn't completely destroyed by the rat race. Music can alter any mood quicker, cheaper and healthier than any other substance on earth.
- Mark La Monica
Comments (3)
Had a similar experience that switched up the mood of the Monday rat-race--Ma gurl Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam giving up the "All Cried Out."
"Apology not accepted! Add me to the broken hearts you collected!"
Followed up with the brilliance that is Stevie B's "I Wanna Be the One" and I was all, oh shit, thank you baby Jesus!
Strong moves!
All Cried Out is an amazing freestyle ballad.
Ain't no Richard Marx. Ya heard.