I'm about a day and a half behind on my music survey, and those two days are quite possibly the hardest of the entire thing: my favorite song and my least favorite song. Anyone who knows me, knows my favorite song(s) change almost every day and though I have a few that are tried and true, it isn't so easy to narrow it all down when one of main mediums is music.
But I'll try my best!
"Gimme Shelter"- The Rolling Stones ft/ Merry Clayton
There is something so incredibly sexy about the opening of this song. It reminds me of people in dark bars or clubs, smoke creating screens, and all around awesomeness. I just really find it seductive and there's nothing I love more than a good opening. But it doesn't stop there; the vocals are rough and exciting and even though the musical content is heavy, you want them to tell you more. As long as they're singing, it doesn't matter. My favorite part of this song however, are the vocals laid down by Merry Clayton. That voice? We don't make women like that anymore and it's a damn shame. When her voice breaks at 3:03? It's magical-- and Mick Jagger seemed to think so too, since you can hear him in the backround as he shouted "woo!".
There is just too much that makes this song golden.
As sad as I feel to limit my favorite song to just one, it's sort of a necessity; otherwise I'd be here all day and I do sort of have a life. That's a no-go. But my list is a long one, but hopefully other favorite songs I'll be able to use throughout the course of this survey.
And now, to my least favorite song. Which is hard to do, since I don't feel like I innately hate any song off the top of my head. It's honestly one of those deals where I'm listening to music and have to change the station (or tell someone to please turnr their god forsaken music down or off). Though now that I think about it, I was driving the other day with someone, and this song came on the radio and I had to say, "Ew, no. Can we please change it? I HATE this stupid song." We didn't change the station, we just started talking over the disaster.
"Teenage Dream"- Katy Perry
Don't get me wrong, I like my fair share of Katy Perry songs, there isn't any point in denying that fact and I wouldn;t. I don't tend to be ashamed of the music I like, there's a reason I like it and if it doesn't suit you, that's fine... since it's my musical preferece and all.
The song is catchy, which hey, works for it. Because that's literally all it has going for it. It's juvenille (haha, teenage dream), but there's something about how juvenille it is, that really rubs me the wrong way. And the fact that the lyrics talk about meeting someone and now they complete them, also bothers me. I know I've talked about it before, but I'm a believer that you should know yourself before you commit to someone else. If you don't, then once they leave, you're not only losing them-- you're losing yourself too. It just rubs me the wrong way collectively.
As a whole, it's weak. And to be honest, her sophmore album really disappointed me. Her first wasn't exactly life-changing, but I think it was more honest. If you get past the songs like "Ur So Gay" and into the songs like "Lost," you can hear the potential for something really wonderful.
But yeah. Just no.
Sorry, Katy.
