Songs!
This week’s prompt: “A song that makes you happy”.
When my kids were in high school, they used to listen to what passed for pop music back around 2010. Most of it sounded the same: derivative, over-produced to within an inch of its life, not even managing to do the most basic job of music for young people, that is, to piss parents off. So I took note of the rare ones were actually good. Like this one: fresh, clever, and filled with joy.
Jason Mraz - I'm Yours (Official Video) [4K]
![Jason Mraz - I'm Yours (Official Video) [4K]](https://i0.wp.com/i.ytimg.com/vi/EkHTsc9PU2A/0.jpg?resize=720%2C388&ssl=1)
Once again, in your responses use a URL like:
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Youtube’s suggested sharing format
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Don’t hear it on the radio too often, but it never fails to bring out a smile.
https://youtu.be/WS3Lkc6Gzlk (Tsk.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS3Lkc6Gzlk&feature=youtu.beReport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqNTltOGh5cReport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhjSzjoU7OQReport
This is the ringtone on my phone and my fantasy football team is The Countless Screaming ArgonautsReport
I remember seeing the video for the first time and being entranced.
“This is what videos looked like in my head”, I realized.
I played the heck out of this album.Report
I still play the heck out of it…got my husband hooked on it too, he was playing it the shower just todayReport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R7l7nDuj1oReport
I ain’t scared.
The brakes are good, tires fair.
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A neighbor of mine has, after 30 years, finished his hot rod Lincoln. Open front wheels, open engine, dayglow orange paint job, chrome everything. He takes it out and putters around town on sunny days. Everyone who has lived in the neighborhood long enough smiles when he goes by, because we’ve all been out for evening walks and seen him working on it under his garage lights with the doors open.Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7hxAZTTEVwReport
I really thought a lot about this one and while there are so many good options, I think this is the one that is most guaranteed to make me smile. And I like the Tuskeegee version the best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OJhEyjqMdcReport
Also, honorable mention. This is the last one I remember being really into with the youngest daughter when she was still living at home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JCLY0Rlx6QReport
Bug loves this one (and I admit I do too).Report
It is so catchy, and IMO such a respectful and fun homage to the 80s. I can totally picture this one getting played at the skating rink, which is sort of my litmus test for all 80s pop.Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHJo_klmPcAReport
The happiest song ever written.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQUlA8Hcv4sReport
The Honeybee Trio started singing big band music when they were twelve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mch6omtVH0U
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This was the “theme song” of the little pub we enlisted guys ran out of our dorm on RAF Feltwell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aYReport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIbpxHBmvYYReport
Five different rhymes for “hippopotamus.” How could that not make you happy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVEbaR72u1wReport
What’s big and gray and equivalent to choice?Report