September 14, 2009
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The Energy Never Dies
Every now and then there comes a song that is just everywhere, everybody likes it, it seems to be on the radio every five fuckin minutes, you just can’t get enough of it and it gets stuck in your head and you can’t get it out until you hear it again. Problem is, you hear it and it doesn’t leave. You still have it stuck in your head. As fortunes would have it, it stuck in everybody else’s head too and it gets played nearly constantly until people start to get sick of it and it fades from popularity. The song of the moment right now and this summer has been “I Gotta Feelin” by the Black Eyed Peas. If you don’t know it, its on my play list so now you can get the damn thing stuck in your head.
I first heard the song a couple of months ago. I liked it then. And then I heard it while watching the Cubs game as they played it while showing their Fan Cam in which they pan the crowd showing fans. Flash forward to my road trip from last month. It seems like on road trips, there is always a song that seems to follow you around no matter which state you are in and because of this, that song becomes the official song of the trip and afterwards whenever you hear the song it conjures up memories of that trip. Ten years ago a friend and I took a road trip to Mt. Rushmore and Denver and seemed to year Pearl Jam’s version of the Wayne Cochran classic (although made popular by Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers )”Last Kiss” every 10 miles. ‘Til this day, everytime I hear that song, I think of that trip. Well, as you might imagine, “I Gotta Feelin‘” was this trip’s “Last Kiss” as I seemed to hear it constantly and listened to it each time. When I went to return my rental car, fittingly as I pulled into the parking lot, the song came on the radio.
And Labor Day weekend, I went with some friends to see my friend’s band play. Midway through the first set, they played the song and the crowd went crazy. They liked it so much that when it came time for the last song of the night, many in the crowd requested it and they had to play it again. The next night, I went to a 10 year anniversary party and the song was played there. Now I don’t watch Oprah, but last week the band played the song for her 24th season opener (which, oh by the way, shut down Michigan fuckin Avenue for 2 days!) which turned out to be one hell of a performance. See, the song is everywhere. Hell, I’m sure that you even have heard it everywhere as well. And I’m sure when I save this post it will come on my play list as well.
This weekend, I had to go out and by the damn cd that the song is on, “The E.N.D.” Now I can listen to it over and over and over.
Fuck, its like the damn song brainwashes you. I really gotta find a way to be involved in some smash hit song so that I can kick back and collect royalties for the rest of my life.
Comments (2)
The radio stations here are WAY behind so i have not heard the song yet. I also don’t have XM radio because i’m lame…LOL. So yeah, i think i’ll be avoiding that Black Eyed Peas song. Sometimes i like when a song is stuck in my head and i hear it over and over, but i tend not to like those catchy Black Eyed Peas songs.
I sometimes lay in bed at night because a song is playing OVER AND OVER again in my head. Only here’s the real bastard of the deal. It’s not the whole song, it’s pieces that I remember and then parts my mind fills in with incorrect lyrics. Sometimes it’s just a phrase and I don’t even realize I’m humming it over and over until Reese shakes me and goes “enough!” haha. Then i make him sing something to get it out of my head.