My weekend was ruined.
All because of one song.
It all started Friday night, when I went to the dance. I danced to this one song, “Shut Up and Dance,” by Walk the Moon (which is not Walk Off the Earth), and fortunately, Emily was there to tell me the song’s title and artist. That reminded me of another song which I had heard several times, that sounded sort of similar, but not exactly the same.
And of course, I couldn’t remember a single lyric.
I knew the general tune, and that it went “boom boom boom” something, and I knew that if I heard it just once, I’d be like, oh, of course, that song. Friday came and went, but by yesterday afternoon, after dance class, I was humming the song in my head again. I just couldn’t get it out. And the worst part was that I didn’t even know what I was singing.
And it was tearing me to pieces.
I kept thinking of every single other similar sounding song: “Drive By,” (Train); “50 Ways to Say Goodbye” (Train); “Maps” (Maroon 5); “Animals” (Maroon 5); “Counting Stars” (One Republic); “My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Fall Out Boy); “Glad You Came” (The Wanted)…and that was when I realized that three-quarters of the songs released by male artists in the last five years all sound exactly the same.
Anyway, I was up until 3 AM last night, going to extreme measures. I was using up my bandwidth to listen to every song by every group from the last five years that sounded even remotely similar to the one I was looking for. I scoured Wikipedia, Google, and SoundsJustLike.com for anything to trigger a memory. Today, I even made a Pandora channel for “50 Ways” in hopes that that song would come up (strangely, I got a lot of Adele, not that I’m complaining). It was literally pounding at my frontal lobe; no grading, no homework, just find that damn song so you can get some sleep tonight. It wasn’t until I downloaded Spotify and played two full playlists of contemporary 127 BPM or higher jive songs that I finally found it. Then I realized that it’s Sunday night and I’ve barely made a dent in grading.
And that’s how to ruin a perfectly good weekend by looking for a song.
I guess after all that, I should let you know what the song was…but I won’t!
…Just kidding, it was “Runaway Baby” by Bruno Mars. Have a listen.
That’s So Jacob 
I hate it when that happens and a song gets stuck. Can’t say I’ve ever spent an entire weekend on it. Oh go on, tell us what the song is.
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How the hell did I miss that? 🙂 Go Bruno!
Eh, it was a trick. Glad you found it and thanks for your lovely comments as always. Glad you’re here!
Me too! 🙂
I love Bruno Mars. You should have asked me!
I didn’t know you before a minute ago ;-P
Jacob, just think of me as your new reference friend. Warning: my husband says I make things up sometimes when i don’t know the answers. (like when I do a crossword puzzle) Hmmmmm? “Runaway Baby” I knew that!
I hate it when that happens. I am so bad for humming or singing a song ( or part of it, sometimes I end up mixing up my songs and words) but I have no idea of the artist or song name. I will frantically rack my brains, as you did to find out the name and i’ll get really annoyed if I can’t get the name right. My hubby ( who is oracle of all things musical, you want him on your Pub quiz team) is also pretty good as asking me ” Why are you singing a song by xxxxx, you hate them.” I hate it worst of all when my hubby will be singing a song and then i’ll have the song in my head and end up signing it too, then wonder why am I singing this song!
At least your pursuit of the song wasn’t all for nothing, I’m so glad that you found it, it would have driven me to despair too! 😉
BTW, have you seen Adele Carpool Karaoke? It’s Adele driving around London singing along to her songs and chit chatting, it’s super funny.
Haha, I did! I even wrote an article about it: https://uk.celebrity.yahoo.com/post/137348917759/carpool-karaoke-victoria-beckham-reacts-to
It was brilliant 🙂
Reading now!
Just read it! Lovely article. I actually name checked Posh in a recent paper I wrote about a 2013 play at the Birmingham Rep – Cling To Me Like Ivy by Samantha Ellis. An excellent play which you should read if you haven’t already, it depicts Jewish society in 21st century London and how one comment Victoria Beckham made changed everything for them.
Thanks! That sounds very interesting, I should look it up when I next have some free time.