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30 Days Of Music: Favorite Song
May. 4th, 2010 11:30 am[I found this meme on the threeweeks dreamwidth feed, specifially here, and couldn't resist!]
There are a few questions I hate being asked, and most of them start with "what's your favorite...". I'm a hugely fickle person, and my favorites change on almost a minute-by-minute basis. My favorite movie is based on what I'm watching or talking about right that second, favorite tv show the same, favorite food whatever I'm eating. I've stopped using the star rating feature in iTunes because a five-star one day is a one-star the next, so until iTunes can pull the rating from my subconscious, it's worthless.
In my fickle-ness, there are a few steady contenders, songs that have been five-stars since the moment I heard them. And, okay, there we go, my favorite must be one of those! Except there are probably about 50 of those songs, and if I pull from just that pool my answer still changes based on my mood and what I'm listening to lately and whether Mercury's retrograde.
I don't know why the idea of answering wrong bothers me so much. Is there someone digging through my brain making sure the song I pick isn't actually my second favorite? Will the song that thought I loved it best just vanish off my hard drive in a huff of hurt feelings? Prooobably not. But. Choosing a "favorite" stresses me out.
All that said, this particular song is the perfect juxtaposition of Favorite Musician + Steady Favorite, and it's generally the one I choose. It's In These Arms by David Bryan, a cover of the Bon Jovi song of the same name. For those new enough to have missed the days where Bon Jovi were all I talked about, David's their keyboardist and my absolute favorite of the bunch. He's got a voice remarkably similiar to Elton John's, plays the piano like an angel, and deserves all the love forever. With this one, he took a kind of boring pop-rock song, applied his piano magic and that gorgeous voice to it and turned it into a wrenching ballad.
There are a few questions I hate being asked, and most of them start with "what's your favorite...". I'm a hugely fickle person, and my favorites change on almost a minute-by-minute basis. My favorite movie is based on what I'm watching or talking about right that second, favorite tv show the same, favorite food whatever I'm eating. I've stopped using the star rating feature in iTunes because a five-star one day is a one-star the next, so until iTunes can pull the rating from my subconscious, it's worthless.
In my fickle-ness, there are a few steady contenders, songs that have been five-stars since the moment I heard them. And, okay, there we go, my favorite must be one of those! Except there are probably about 50 of those songs, and if I pull from just that pool my answer still changes based on my mood and what I'm listening to lately and whether Mercury's retrograde.
I don't know why the idea of answering wrong bothers me so much. Is there someone digging through my brain making sure the song I pick isn't actually my second favorite? Will the song that thought I loved it best just vanish off my hard drive in a huff of hurt feelings? Prooobably not. But. Choosing a "favorite" stresses me out.
All that said, this particular song is the perfect juxtaposition of Favorite Musician + Steady Favorite, and it's generally the one I choose. It's In These Arms by David Bryan, a cover of the Bon Jovi song of the same name. For those new enough to have missed the days where Bon Jovi were all I talked about, David's their keyboardist and my absolute favorite of the bunch. He's got a voice remarkably similiar to Elton John's, plays the piano like an angel, and deserves all the love forever. With this one, he took a kind of boring pop-rock song, applied his piano magic and that gorgeous voice to it and turned it into a wrenching ballad.
