It’s 10.30pm on Saturday night. I’ve just downloaded “I’m Yours” by Jason Mraz – a lovely new song, that sounds like a more funky reggae version of any of Jack Johnson’s songs, but if you’re as old as me, it’s SO got the same feel to it as “Don’t Worry Be Happy” by Bobby McFerrin (circa 1895) – I’m dancing around the kitchen on my own (sad I know). My 8 year old is upstairs having finally gone to sleep after threatening to throw up, I have left my daughter at a disco I was helping out at a minute ago and my 16 year old is on a rugby tour and sometimes…just sometimes…music just really does the trick and I’m hoping my son won’t be sick and thinking life is really, really OK. I might be in the middle of a Brookside-esque soap opera but what the f*ck. Sometimes, music can soothe a troubled soul.
NOT always of course and especially when it concern’s Mother’s Day- when you look at the suggested “Top 10 CD’s To Buy You Mum For Her Special Day” and somebody has decided that we are all 85 years of age and need Cliff Richard, James Taylor and at a very risque push – Tom Jones.
I’m old enough to note that the song that’s just been shoved out of the UK Numer 1 slot by “Flo Rider” (from Florida – hence the name if you hadn’t realised) has changed the lyrics from “You swing me right round baby right round like a record baby right round round round” to “you swing me right round baby right round when you go down baby go down” and when I told my children that it was an old song by Marilyn (I think) not only did they ask what a “record” was, but my teenage son rolled his eyes when I said “what do you think it means by “when you go down?” and said “it’s obvious mum” like I was a sad old git.
Live, love and dance like a fu*kwit in the kitchen on your own and everything suddenly seems wonderful…
Until tomorrow. When the clocks go forward and you’ve got to get up really early for a football match that your 8 year old is SO going to lose because they’re in the wrong league. But never mind.
Try kitchen dancing. It’s very liberating.
March 28th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
spin me like a record..or whatever title it was known by back in the 80s, was done by dead or alive. they were one of my faves back in the day lol i do believe the lead singer is now a female.
isn’t it amazing how music can kind of take us somewhere else for awhile?
March 29th, 2009 at 12:27 am
So glad to hear that you are dancing again after the tumultuous week you have had. I hope BB has recovered enough to be dancing in his kitchen too. x
March 29th, 2009 at 1:08 am
We love kitchen dancing! Since the girls were little we have had kitchen discos, where the table gets pushed to one side and we dance around like maniacs. Great fun!
Btw, You Spin Me Round was by Dead or Alive.
March 29th, 2009 at 1:22 am
Go forward, surely, Family Affairs, otherwise you’ll be late for that rugby match…. (spring forward, fall back).
March 29th, 2009 at 2:11 am
OH YEAH! Dead Or Alive….Forgot Lx
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