If you’re like me, a typical day is never “typical,” and because the unexpected occurs frequently, in one day, you can go from feeling as if you’re on top of the world to feeling like downing three vodka martinis in as many minutes.
Yesterday, for me, was one of those days.
I felt really sexy when some jeans that were too tight last week fit perfectly. I felt super giddy when I got a sweet text message from my love. When I realized it was time for me to get ready for work, I felt like escaping to another world. And on my way to work, I felt confused as a scruffy, nomad looking man stood in front of my car, at the crosswalk, twirling a stick like a majorette while my light was green.
I thought it was only appropriate that I choose some of my favorite songs to represent each highlight of my day.
Mood: Sexy Reason: MY JEANS FIT!!! Song: Rihanna’s, “What’s My Name?”
So seductive and oozing with fiestiness is Rihanna’s sultry “What’s My Name?” The Barbados-born hottie collaborates with Drake on the track, and in the video, the two superstars play each other’s love interests. I wonder what Rihanna’s Dodger boyfriend, Matt Kemp, thinks about Drake getting ready to round the bases.
At any rate, Rihanna proves that, even dressed in wacky, Cyndi Lauper-esque gear, she still manages to pull off sexy. And, yes, I danced around in the mirror asking myself, “What’s My Name?,” as I effortless zipped my pants.
Mood: Giddy Reason: Sweet texts from my sweetie Song: Sugarland’s, “Stuck Like Glue”
It may be #17 on Billboard’s Hot 100, but at the top of my list is Sugarland’s new single, “Stuck Like Glue.” Even before they performed on this month’s CMA Awards, the song was already being repeated frequently on my iPod.
It’s such a cute, quirky song that reminds you how sweet being in love really is! I can’t stop singing, “there you go making my heart beat again, heart beat again, heart beat again.” You should just hear me singing right now! Well, maybe you shouldn’t. Just listen to Sugarland sing it!
Mood: Not wanting to go to work Reason: Not wanting to go to work Song: Christina Aguilera’s “Something’s Got A Hold Of Me”
For everyone who regularly performs in front of imaginary, sold-out audiences in their living rooms, and for every server and bar tender who’s ever wanted to close the restaurant and put on a one-man show atop the bar – Christina Aguilera’s video for “Something’s Got A Hold Of Me,” is for you.
Maybe I chose this song because the “something” that got a hold of me was work when I didn’t feel like going. Or maybe I chose it because of how Ms. Christina ends her workday in the video by breaking it down to some old school Etta James.
I won’t be dropping $16.00 at ArcLight to see Burlesque, but I was motivated to jump on a bar stool at work and break out into a song and dance.
Mood: Confused Reason: Random man standing in front of my car in traffic Song: Pink’s, “Raise Your Glass”
Pink has always been a champion for all things weird, and there’s no other way to describe a man who runs into the middle of the crosswalk and starts performing tricks with a wooden stick in front of on-coming traffic. This really happened.
The easy thing to do would have been to judge (which I didn’t do) and to honk my horn angrily (which I did eventually). But after I saw how impressed the man was with himself as he ran back to his shopping cart piled high with plastic bottles and cans, all I could do was smile.
I thought of Pink’s “Raise Your Glass” and how the song and video revel in the glory of being misfit underdogs. Pink makes being an underdog seem pretty freaking trendy, and the stick-twirling man made it seem pretty cool, too!
Soooo maybe I didn’t down three martinis…the one shot of tequila did the trick. And maybe a crazy LA day is a little less crazy when you find the perfect songs to get you through it!
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