Simply Felicious

Currently Reading: Where Have All The Boys Gone? - Jenny Colgan

I’m meant to be studying but.. I am not =) End of story. I was thinking of compiling a soundtrack of my life. Songs to me are like scents, certain songs are indelibly printed in my mind’s eye because they’ve been linked to a memory I made while listening to those songs. Others were just the anthem of my life at one time or another. Some of the songs that have punctuated my life include

• Video - India.Arie: This was the anthem of my life in Form 5, I was into the whole I Am Woman, inner beauty independence phenomenon and believe me, no one rawks it quite like India.
• Always Be My Baby - Mariah Carey: Oh my gosh, Mariah (pre-boob job) was my first exposure to raw talent, listening to the queen of vocal gymnastics made me wanna be a singer and so my hair brush and I made a lifelong partnership and made our debut in front of every mirror in my house =) This song would soon be dedicated to me 6 years later on the radio by a boy I had not even known existed at the time
• Push - Matchbox 20: My first induction to real music, I was twelve-ish I think… the year I began broadening my horizon - soon followed was Shimmer (Fuel) and Third Eye Blind.
• Belaian Jiwa - Innuendo: We were 13 and performed an accapella version of this in church for a talent competition - I remember great afternoons of screaming laughter and night after night of relentless practice - we couldn’t have been that bad, we got third =) we got our first gig at a wedding the following weekend to which we all wore black and with only one mic we sort of…bombed..keke *Cheryl bares witness*
• I’ll Never Break Your Heart - BSB: omg we were freaks for these guys, every time we met all we would gush about were these dudes who never showed up in Malaysia ever again; everything we talked about was NickCarter this, AJ that… my dad used to call them The Blue-Arse Boys… like it was funny or something *seethes*
• Crazy Love - Aaron Neville : self-explanatory
• Foolish Games - Jewel: First time I ever cried while listening to a song
• Rock DJ - Robbie Williams: This was my song man, I can’t dance to save my life but you can’t say I don’t try
• Come Away With Me - Norah Jones: Always transports me to the time when I was seventeen and used to sit on the parquet floor of my room and talk to Barath on my mobile phone while it charged next to my radio
• Every Sarah McLachlan song ever released: I always crank up my Sarah when I’m feeling depressed or manic
• Paper Bag - Fiona Apple: My friend and I was going through a particularly rough ‘I Hate Men’ phase - this is a great song for the feminist soul (also listen to Ani DeFranco: Untouchable Face)
• Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell : saddest song in the world
• Holly Jolly Christmas- Alan Jackson: reminds me of Christmas at home, with baked cookies and the tree and presents and friends and new clothes..
• Oughta Know - Alanis Morrisette : The first time my friends and I had ever heard a song that was censored because of the infamous ‘F’ word…we were what, nine?
• Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals - Live From Mars: one of the best live albums I’ve heard to date, I used to be addicted to Disc2, I would listen to Ben the minute I woke up till the second I went to bed. My friends were thinking of planning an intervention, that’s how bad it was =)
• Hell Freezes Over - Eagles : I listened to this album ad nauseam the first week I was in Australia…don’t ask me why, I was addicted to it.
• More Than Words - Extreme,(You Look) Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton and Here Without You - 3 Doors Down : me and the guys used to jam to these ones frequently.

Have I left anything out? Sorry for the boring entry, I just thought I needed to give these songs credit, they are literally a soundtrack of my life. Also sorta reminds me that my taste in music have broadened quite considerably

Just like jasmine can remind you of your gran’s perfume, songs can have that ability too.

Apparently.

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