Do you ever have a moment where you just want to load up a vibey song and just go wild for a bit? I do, on a regular basis.
Especially on a Friday when the week is dragging a little bit and the weekend is calling you and you just need that extra little push.
This year it started for me with Pink’s ‘Just Like Fire’ from the soundtrack of the Alice in Wonderland sequel. I kept hearing it on the radio when I was driving and it grabbed me straight away until I was like, “I must have that song!” So I discovered the title and bought in on iTunes and my neighbour’s lives were never the same again (I tend to pump the volume and really karaoke it out during the Fun Friday song).
BILLY JOEL SAID WHAT?
I have a decent amount of music that I have bought over the years and my ‘go to’ vibe songs will range from Coldplay to U2 and then from R.E.M. through Bastille, all the way to Mumford and Sons. But every now and then it’s cool to get hold of a song you used to love years ago and stick it on repeat.
So I sent out an inquiry on Facebook. What is your favourite Fun Friday song to just let loose to? And the responses were many and varied. But the winner was ‘We didn’t start the fire’ and I was super surprised when I saw that Billy Joel had originally sung that song. That is pure Fun Friday.
I would completely love to learn all the lyrics to that fast paced random list of words and events and people, but I am trying to increase my poor isiXhosa at the moment and figured committing ‘We didn’t start the fire’ to memory didn’t quite compare in priority.
WHAT ELSE IS THERE?
Mandoza’s ‘Nkalakatha’ is an obvious choice and has been in the list for years, especially poignant this year with his recent passing, but what else rocks my boat?
Well, the latest one was ‘Are you going to be my girl?’, which was recommended to me by my good friend, Mary Twin. One of those songs that when you hear the title you think, ‘Um, no’ but when you listen to three seconds of the song it’s like, ‘Oh, of course yes. I need that song.’
And before that it’s been songs such as ‘Shut Up and Dance’ by Walk the Moon, Friday I’m in Love (huge surprise to find out The Cure sang this one – music is clearly not my strong point), ‘Honey I’m good’ by Andy Grammer and then the completely different flavour of ACDC’s ‘Thunderstruck’ (which was a song I realised was missing from my list).
So I have a number of different playlists on my computer ranging from Latest Bought (I don’t buy a lot of music so this goes way back) through Current Faves (list one and two) and even Classical, but when Friday rolls around it is usually not long before I click on Fun Songs and pump up the volume and sing away.
How about you? What is a song that you would add to this list? A song that completely vibes you up and invigorates you and you sing at full volume (even if like me you have to look up most of the words)? Leave your answers in the comments below.