With that said, there are some times and places where I feel free to just let go and sing aloud: at home alone, in the shower, in the car, and occasionally with siblings. There are also certain songs that, once they've caught your ear, demand you sing along -- nay, demand you BELT THEM OUT. For me, these include:
- "Walking on Broken Glass" by Annie Lennox
- "Love Song" by Sara Bareilles
- "The Wizard and I" from the Wicked original cast recording
- "Jolly Roving Tar" by Great Big Sea (for that matter, most things by GBS)
- "Drops of Jupiter" by Train
- "Take Your Mama" by Scissor Sisters
- "Byker Hill" by The Cottars
- "Je fais de toi mon essentiel" by Emmanuel Moire
- "A Little Respect" by Erasure
Which ones do you fancy? And where do you sing?
4 comments:
All Eurasure songs (my kids can sing along to their greatest hits)...okay most 80's songs. Beach Boys. The Love Magnet loves to sing along to Leahy. I like to sing Jenny Jordan Frogly songs ("This Day" being my fave).
Don't forget Messiah's Hallelujah Chorus. Best sun in a 1970's beater car while heading down icy I-15 with her sis and her husband, wishing that there was someone else who could sing the tenor part. Ah, good times.
Sometimes I sing folk sings inside my motorbike helmet when we are bimbling along. I go quiet when we stop at traffic lights though.
I sing in the car to almost any song I know the words to.
When I am stressing I often sing hymns. How Great Thou Art has been my staple song since I was a little girl. It Is Well With My Soul also comes in a lot.
A lot of my belting songs are of the more 'angry' variety. Much of the soundtrack to "Chess". Stuff by Alannis Morrisette or Sinead O'Connor. Or pop-y/silly like from the Corr's or my favorite "The Coconut Song" by Harry Nilsson.
All done solo in the car. Only.
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