This weeks' prompt from Red Writing Hood is called Turn It Up. We had 350 words in the genre of your choice, inspired by a song of your choice.
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Taylor
Swifts' "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
This
song has been ingrained so deeply into my head that it will never
ever go away. I wake to it in the morning and it's running through my
brain at night. It isn't like I actually like this song. Oh God
no.
I
have teenagers and this song is sung in my car and on trips on school
buses. Anywhere that they can sing it. Do they actually like it? I
doubt it. I truly think they just find the song irritating and have
decided to sing it endlessly to drive their poor long-suffering Mom
crazy! Being teens, when they see I am trying to tune them out, they
sing it all the more. Why? Because they love to torture me.
It's something that brings them great joy. The same joy they get
when my mind takes over my mouth and I start singing the song. Then
they all high-five each other!
I
realize Taylor has a reputation of writing break-up songs whenever a
relationship ends, but really. Did she have to stoop to this level
and try to appeal to the pop song lovers? Everyone knows they favour
more simplistic songs. Songs well below the types she normally
writes.
I'm
not a big fan of hers to begin with. After all, her claim to fame
seems to be break-up songs. Not exactly my cup of tea. I mean, when
do you listen to these? I know people who listen to break-up songs
during romantic evenings but they are only listening to the music and
have no idea what the lyrics are all about. I listen to the words
and find very few of her songs worth my time. I want songs I can
think about, or about love, or fun, or even cows. I don't care. As
long as they aren't depressing – or stupid. Taylor seemed to be
aiming for the latter on this one. This song is so incredibly
stupid.
Is
she losing her grip? Or is this just a temporary thing because she
was so devastated by the loss. Whatever it is, I want this song to go
away and never come back.
I
want this song to stay out of my head!
Curse
you, Taylor Swift! "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
Day two of this month of gratitude:
I am grateful for Johannes. I have never met anyone who loves me as much as he does and I have never loved anyone this deeply before.
Oudoe,
Ingrid
"That Swift's songs crazy, so here's my comment, don't call me lazy..." Just a little riff from the song that has driven me crazy from the past summer!
ReplyDeleteWould you believe I finally heard that Taylor Swift song a couple of weeks ago, and now I know why my daughter has sounded so...weird...she'd end her sentences with "and I mean never...ever..." And I was like "what are you saying, what has that got to do with anything?" And she'd give me a weird look.
You crack me up!
DeleteYour song was so irritating, isn't it nice that it's been replaced by one as irritating. LOL!
When a song gets in my head, it drives me crazy. I think that's why I hated piano lessons ---practicing the same music over and over made me nauseous.
ReplyDeleteOnce, National Public Radio produced a segment about songs that get in one's head. In the background, they played the Candy Man song over and over. Most of their letters that week weren't agreeing with or complaining about their reporting, but were about having the Candy man song in listeners' heads for days. Since then, the song-in-the-head phenomena has been dubbed "The Candy Man Syndrome."
Now, I'm sorry I wrote this comment. I can't get that stupid dong out of my head.
Thanks... so much :P
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