Thursday, August 9, 2012

Summer soundtrack

Here is a list of summer songs that are played repeatedly (especially on Utah radio stations so I hear) and I have yet to get sick of them.

1. Call me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen.
    So I know the parodies are getting a little crazy but I still love some of them. Here are my top 3.

  •  US Olympic Swim Team (seeing as I love those Olympic swimmers)
    • Highlight: Brendan Hansen doing the robot underwater. Gets me every time! And Nathan Adrian's written on hands because it's slightly off beat, awkward, and fantastic. 
  • Harvard Baseball team
    • I mean come on. This is classic. I just want to know how it was decided to do this. Even better because I saw some children doing this dance in the car behind me last night. We were listening to the same radio station, I would have done the same thing if I hadn't been driving. 
  • The BYU International Folk Dancers! Obvs. 
    • Including yours truly and my 40 something best friends. 
    • Highlights: dancing from the worst music video ever and pillowpet flirting

2. What Makes You Beautiful - One Direction
Really. That's me every time. I can't get enough of this song. I don't care that the boys in One Direction look 12 years old. Don't care. It also brings great memories of some of my best friends, so that helps. 

3. Somebody that I Used to Know - Goyte (feat Kimbra)
I do not, however, like the amped up beat-ified version they have been playing on the radio so much. The original just makes me want to dance. Like this

4. Starships - Nikki Minaj
So one time, I knew a dear girl who is a native Spanish speaker who sang this song at the top of her lungs to her roommate's concern. Because beach in a Spanish accent...yeah it doesn't sound like beach. 

Even though I love the original, to be honest, I like this Pentatonix cover better. I'm so glad this song is on their EP

5. Brokenhearted - Karmin
It's the beat that gets me in this one. Doesn't it just make you want to have an ugly dance party? Or maybe that's just me. I love ugly dance parties. 

1 comment:

Amber said...

Can I just say that I agree with you 100%? Well almost 100%. Actually 80%. Somebody That I Used to Know is getting to me... in a not so good way. But i love this post, that's for sure.