"This Is My Favorite Song"

I've driven Kim and the kids crazy over the years by proclaiming so many songs to be my favorite.  It's never "This is one of my favorite songs."  Instead, it's always a definitive declaration that "This is my favorite song."

The problem that they have is that I say it so often and about so many different songs.  They may have a point as I've been known to pronounce two different songs my "favorite" during a single 10 minute drive to the food store.  They think it's impossible to have more than one favorite song at any given time.  But, to me, it makes perfect sense that I could have so many favorite songs at any one time.

Right now, the song that I genuinely like most is "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the People.  I don't know what it's about for sure although I think it might be about some kind of shooting spree.  What I do know is that it's catchy, it sounds different than everything else I'm hearing right now, and it's got whistling.  What could be better than that?

Last week, I was driving Jay home from basketball practice.  We were listening to Hits One on Sirius and I announced that they were playing my favorite song.  It was "We R Who We R" by Ke$ha.  OK, Ke$ha really can't sing and she's super trashy.  The lyrics are ridiculous.  Here's part of the chorus: "We're dancing like we're dumb - dumb - du - du -du - dumb.  Our bodies going numb - numb - nu - nu - nu - numb.  We'll be forevery young - young - yu - yu - yu - young.  You know we're superstars.  We r who we r."  I'm never going to download the song.  But, no matter how easy it might be to dismiss it, I know all the words.  And, I always listen to the whole thing when it comes on the radio.  It's completely mindless fun and that's why it's my favorite.

Then, of course, there's the favorite song I heard on the drive home from work today.  It was "Love Vigilantes" by New Order.  It's an oldie but a goodie that tells a great story.  It's almost like a screenplay in 3 minutes.  It also brings back memories of my friend Doug Miller at Bucknell.  We used to hear it on WVBU and we'd both say, often at the same time, "This is my favorite song."

So, I'm introducing a new feature on the blog.  You'll find it just to the right of this post.  It's called "My Favorite Song."  I'll update it frequently so you can hear what's fitting the bill for me, right now.  Hopefully, more than one will become your favorite, too.