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"The Soundtrack of Your Life"  | DAY 28"Shut Up and Dance" by WALK THE MOON For my final entry of "The Soundtrack of Your Life" this year, I thought it only fitting to put down the song iTunes tells me is my most listened-to song of all time. Just like my last entry, I'm not entirely sure that I've listened to this song... checks notes 452 times!  I mean, the song is 199 seconds long... times 452 spins... that's 89,948 seconds total... or 1499.133 minutes... or 24.985 hours... have I really listened to this song for an entire day of my life?Okay, maybe. I do really love this song and I know I had it on repeat for a good long while, so perhaps there's a small, outside chance that I really have listened to this song 452 times over the years. And you know what? I probably added another 10+ or so times listening to it over the past month as I prepared for this challenge because the song is just that catchy! Well, that does it for my playlist for the 2020 edition of "The Soundtrack of Your Life" . Thanks for reading along and following me on my musical journey. Next stop? "Musicology Anthology" in a few months! Maybe I'll even finish it this year!  |
| "The Soundtrack of Your Life" | DAY 27 "Problem" by Natalia Kills I rediscovered this song looking through my iTunes "most played" songs. It's kind of a wild playlist, to be honest, because there are a lot of songs on it (like this one) that I don't even like all that much. But for various reasons (falling asleep at the computer with the song on repeat), forgetting to stop playing a song on repeat when I step away from the computer, etc., there are a bunch of songs with literally hundreds of plays that I don't recall ever listening to that much... at least not as much as indicated by iTunes. For example, iTunes tells me that I've listened to this song 219 times, and I'm pretty sure that's about 175-200 times more than I would have guessed I listened to it. Still, in the course of looking for tracks for this challenge, I did technically rediscover it, so here it is! |
| "The Soundtrack of Your Life" | DAY 26 "Uncharted" by Sara Bareiles I don't usually double-up on artists during the same Soundtrackers activity, but I feel like it's warranted in this case because I really did rediscover this song that I absolutely love during the past year. My wife and I went to a Sara Bareilles concert last November (I already talked about this briefly in "Eden" earlier this month), and in addition to discovering songs like that one and some of her tracks from the Waitress broadway cast recording, I was also reminded of how much I love this song and "King of Anything." I truly think Sara Bareilles is one of the most talented singer/songwriters of her generation and this kind of song is exactly why I think so... it's melodic and catchy and the lyrics are complicated and still catchy. She has a great way of layering her songs with a lot of things to appreciate and, for a challenge where we're supposed to write about (re)new to you songs, I thought it only fitting to include one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite artists, that I truly hadn't listened to in well over a year until I heard it again a few months ago. And it's been on my current playlist (again) ever since.P.S. - This is also a really fun "can you name all the other celebrities singing along" type of videos. |
| "The Soundtrack of Your Life" | DAY 25 "Danca Do Canguru" by Aline Barros feat. Cia 3 Is a Brazilian children's song that roughly translates to "Kangaroo Dance" silly? Well, yes. But that's kind of the point. This is one of the first songs that they played for the kids in the favelas when I went on my first mission trip to Brazil with my wife. The ministry we volunteered with went into the favelas (slums) and put on day camps for the kids there; kids that, in some cases, had never been outside the few square blocks of crumbling, dilapidated urban decay they lived around. This ministry would come and set up camps for the kids where they could play music, sing, dance, do crafts, entertain the kids, play games, etc., and I don't think I've ever seen kids so happy as the ones that came streaming out of the run-down buildings to gather in the middle of an empty lot to dance like kangaroos and be silly and escape from the stresses and pressures of their daily lives for a few hours. Fun fact, Aline Barros is also a multi-Latin Grammy Award-winning artist and has sold over a million albums around the world. While not all of them are silly kid's songs, clearly she knows how to compose catchy songs! |
| "The Soundtrack of Your Life" | DAY 24 "Yes I Will" by Vertical Worship Okay, last Christian song of this year's Soundtrackers, and this one is probably the most religious of the bunch. It's very similar to "Hills & Valleys" by Tauren Wells, which I used for last year's Soundtrackers, in that it's really about Christians humbling themselves and giving thanks and praise to God no matter what their circumstances. It's a posture that I think a lot of Christians (and human beings in general) aren't great about adopting... and that's understandable, because it's hard. But Christian theology teaches that God is good all the time and even in the hurt, even in the darkness, even in the low valleys of life, there's something beautiful to be found, even if it's the reassurance that God is with you during your low points. I usually have at least one song like this on my playlist at any given time, because I find they're great ways to really reorient myself and remind myself that I need to have gratitude for the things in my life, even when times are tough. |
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