Confession's good for the soul, my friends.

[constance]

I thought of doing this as a poll, but I'm worried that the text length won't be enough to get me the information I crave, so if you'd just be so kind as to answer my nosy question in the comments, I'd be much obliged.

The thing that's got me thinking about this is that lately I've been listening obsessively to this one song on repeat, so much that I seem to have broken it, twice, and have had to redownload it. Twice. (No idea how this could possibly have happened, btw.) It's a total guilty pleasure, it's like nothing else I like or listen to, and I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I love it, but I really really do, I can't get enough, and I don't care whether you like it or not, will accept with equanimity your opinion that as songs go it's seriously unacceptable, but I kind of want to share it anyway:

Candyman by Christina Aguilera, fun, raunchy, retro, hooky, and completely irresistible.

So what's your current favorite, one-stop-got-me-hot song? And why do you like it? Sharing the song itself is totally optional, because what I really want here is to know that I'm not obsessing alone.

Comments

[aubrem.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I don't currently have a song obsession. My most recent was months ago - Shakira's Hips Don't Lie. Wyclef Jean is in it and it's fab. I wish I had it handy to share. I bet it's on youtube though.

I do have two songs I often put on to shower to so they almost count - The Weather Girls' It's Raining Mean and La Belle's Lady Marmalade. Damn, I love those. I'll never get tired of them.

[aubrem.livejournal.com]

omg, the gerberas are back!!! BEST LAYOUT EVER!!!1111!!!1!11

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha, yes, I finally, finally sat down and figured out how to make it work in S2, go me! It is my favorite layout too!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Lady Marmalade's one of mine too (of course the LaBelle version). I especially love playing it on a wide empty highway and belting out the lyrics. And if I ever get drunk enough to allow someone to push me onstage to sing karaoke, this is one of the songs I'd want to sing.

[thissugarcane.livejournal.com]

I do enjoy said kinds of music (I own that Christina cd and adore that song), if it makes you feel better. Let's see, what song is like that for me, currently? I suppose "Maneater" by Nelly Furtado?

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Several people on my friendslist listen to popular pop, and I don't have anything against it, exactly -- it's just that mostly I listen to very different stuff. But this song! I tell you, it transcends all genres for me.

I'll see if I can find Maneater and give it a listen! :)

[octoberstory.livejournal.com]

Nelly Furtado's a real prize-winner. She once said she had messed around a bit with feminism, but gave it up because she "liked men too much." So, yeah. AWESOOOOOOOOOME.

However, I do have that "I'm Like a Bird" song on my iPod. *weeps* As well as Pink. And more than one Kelly Clarkson song.

HEY I HAVE A NEW PHONE NUMBER! Check your phone's messages! :D

[tofty.livejournal.com]

hahahaha, well, Chrissie Hynde once said just about the same thing, to Bust Magazine of all things, and don't even get me started on Patti Smith, but I still listen to them -- I am pathetically hypocritical enough that I can (mostly) ignore someone's moronic politics if I like the music enough.

And hey, Pink is hot.

:O I got the message, and I am set to call you cell-only from now on, my darling.

[gmth.livejournal.com]

I don't have one at the moment, but I recently had a major obsession with the entire "It's Only Time" CD by Drake Bell, and especially I Know (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qktlKPSW8M0) which OMG I may just have to become obsessed with again now that I hear it again for the first time in a while...

[tofty.livejournal.com]

hahahahahaha, you can totally thank me later! Or, you know, not, depending on how you feel about becoming re-obsessed.

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

My current music obsession is Le Petit Port (https://download.yousendit.com/68112D8075034201) by La Bottine Souriante, which is made somewhat more embarrassing by the fact that I don't speak French - it's just a bunch of syllables to me. But I still love it like crazy - it's boppy and repetitive and kind of like a fast march, call and response.

(I am going through a phase of preferring music that's not in English; if you check my 'music' tag you will find a big post with lots of stuff hosted on my own site and thus still out there, and also lots more uploads in the comments, some of which is still valid as well.)

[tofty.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that I'm almost always a sucker for a good lyric, so something's lost in translation, so to speak, if I can't understand what's being sung about. Still, though, I do dig a song that's all about the boppiness!

I'll check out your download list; I'm always on the lookout for new stuff to love.

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

OMG I LOVE THIS SONG!!!! Thanks!

I've always loved not-in-English music. I like wondering what the heck they're singing about, and I like the challenge of learning to sing along (and rendering what I'm sure are very nice lyrics into horrid gibberish). Plus, you know how asinine lyrics can sometimes suck all the pleasure out of a song with a great tune/beat? With not-in-English lyrics, that never happens!

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Hee! Yeah, that's pretty much why I love not-in-English music. Go see my post (http://isiscolo.livejournal.com/436708.html) and download the two songs I list in French (particularly Loudeac) and the stuff that sprat uploaded - she's who I got this from, and she has two zip files (which might still be up), one with this and two other songs by this group (and several other awesome songs, including two Hebrew songs that seem to be by the Israeli Indigo Girls), another with six or so other songs by them that she uploaded when I raved over this.

[xanthophyllippa.livejournal.com]

I just took a bunch of stuff from that post - hope it's okay!

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

It's wonderful - I hope you enjoy them!

and now, the words!

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

I poked around a little bit and found this (http://www.sacredcircles.com/THEDANCE/HTML/DANCEPAG/ANDRO.HTM). It turns out this is a (very) old dance tune from Brittany, and the translation has the feel of a fairy tale sort of story. All those repetitive syllables in the chorus are a few nonsense words, plus this extremely cogent and thoughtful passage:

Girl on top, girl on the bottom.
Girl, girl, girl, woman,
woman, woman, woman, too!

See, this is why I like songs in languages I don't speak. :-)

[tilney.livejournal.com]

SO I HAVE A FEW. There's Atmosphere's "Like the Rest of Us', this dreamy, soft-spoken hip-hop with beautiful music on loop in the background. Rihanna's "Lemme Get That", which is just cool, and Cobra Starship's "Kiss my Sass" and "Smile for the Paparazzi". All of them rule and I listen to them many a times a day. You are so not alone.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

I'm more of a serialist (is that actually a word, or did I just make it up?) when it comes to songs; I'll listen to one over and over and then move on to something else, and I'll occasionally revisit an old fave. Like, the last one was "Queen Bitch" by David Bowie, and before that was, embarrassingly, Lou Reed's "Satellite of Love," and before that Andrew Bird's "Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left."

I'm glad not to be alone! *sits next to you with ipod*

[lindyhoppr.livejournal.com]

Currently - Hysteria by Muse.
Previous - Grace Kelly by Mika
before that - Angel Eyes by A-Teens.

All, just cause I love them so much. I got about a hundred of these stored up on one playlist on Itunes. They aren't similar, except they are just musically PERFECT, and I love them.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Some songs really are just perfect, aren't they? There are songs that I've listened to for literal years without ever getting tired of them or feeling that I've moved on from them. I still get a little thrill whenever I hear them. I hope they never stop thrilling me, and I hope yours never stop thrilling you!

[trickpie.livejournal.com]

I DO THIS WITH JUST ABOUT EVERY SONG EVER. Last week's was "Get Myself Into It" by the Rapture. Omgosh I'm not sure if I have one this week. I WILL REPORT BACK WITH IT (if I find it) AND ALSO PAST ONES.

[trickpie.livejournal.com]

Okay, so before the Rapture, for about two weeks straight it was MGMT's "Electric Feel", to the extreme that I would take my ipod into the bathroom at work and hide in a cubicle to dance to it.

I can't remember the direct line of history, but a couple of other recent ones: Bon Iver's "Skinny Love", which I listened to for about a month on loop, honestly. Well, when I wasn't listening to the song on loop, I was listening to his album on loop. That was a kind of heartbreaking month.

I hope these couple of admittances make you feel better about your own obsessive nature. I've been listening to single songs on loop since I first started downloading mp3s, to be honest. And my car has a "repeat one" function on the CD player, too...

PS I have a feeling the newest repeat will be something from Firekites or Does It Offend You, Yeah? because I am just getting into them. Firekites is best having the whole album on loop, DIOYY will probably be a one-track job.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

I so wish my car had a repeat function -- God, that would rock so hard. Pressing that skip reverse button is SO EXHAUSTING.

Sometimes it just works better when you listen to a whole CD all the way through, I know. I can think of a dozen things I almost never listen to any other way, so that when I listen to one of those songs, I'm prepared for the next song on the CD as it ends, and if my player's on random, it's really jarring not to hear it.

[xanthophyllippa.livejournal.com]

That's why I never use the "random" function. Or the "shuffle" setting in iTunes. The disorder, it hurts me...

[tofty.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what you mean. I can randomize, but I don't do playlists very much because the resulting disorder makes me twitch.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

ahahahahaha, you are a song whore! :O

Please do share some of your faves if you track them down. I'd love to hear 'em.

[venivincere]

"Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel. It never fails to make me feel 25 again, hot, low-cut and ready to fuck anything. Erm.

[octoberstory.livejournal.com]

ahahahahahaha

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Excellent -- I hope you at least get mileage from it! Might as well work that, if you've got it going for you.

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

I too am a serialist, and I'm distressed to report that I'm currently between songs right now, but the last one I was totally fixated on was "I've Just Seen A Face" by the Beatles. I get into this mode where if I love a song, I want to find every version of it possible. I'm happy to report that the aforementioned song lends itself well to a bluegrass treatment. :D

[tofty.livejournal.com]

the aforementioned song lends itself well to a bluegrass treatment

Oh, man, this is just one of the many reasons why I love you. Who does the bluegrass cover?

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

There are a whole bunch of them on YouTube, but the one I liked best was this one: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ldPhTy8NibE
(unfortunately, they natter on for almost two minutes before finally starting to play).

It's kind of amazing how many songs DO respond well to some banjofication, you know? I haven't yet found a countrified version of "Shalom Aleichem", but I did find that one done reggae-style, which was almost as good. :D

[tinderblast.livejournal.com]

I always thought the 'making all the panties drop' line was hilarious.

Current favourite: I Was Made to Love Her by Stevie Wonder.

Favourite cheesy radio song: Low by Flo Rida - "everybody in the club was lookin' at herrrrrrr"

[octoberstory.livejournal.com]

My current obsession is a Stevie Wonder, too! "Stay Gold" from the soundtrack to The Outsiders. So nostalgia-laden!

<3 your icon!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

The whole song is hilarious -- also ridiculous, but, you know, in a totally hilarious way.

[octoberstory.livejournal.com]

The Stevie Wonder song I mentioned to Tinderblast.

I also recently dl'ed that Cyndi Lauper song from The Goonies, and it is SUBLIME.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

I go through Stevie Wonder songs as well -- the last one was, I think, "I Wish," but I love so many of them.

[xanthophyllippa.livejournal.com]

Are you kidding me? That's pretty much the only way I listen to music. I was on a serious Rick Astley kick earlier this year - I watched the same live clip of "Never Gonna Give You Up" on YouTube practically all day long. Then someone kindly sent me an MP3 of the 1987 version, and I looped that endlessly. For weeks, seriously. Then I branched out and added in a few other live Rick Astley clips until I got sidetracked by David Gray's "You're The World To Me" and listened to *that* on loop for weeks. I have a whole iTunes library full of stuff that I only listen to in loops.

I'd like to think this doesn't make me crazy. I just get stuck sometimes, and only one thing will do when I get stuck like that. I should upload some of the stuff I've been stuck on this spring alone - it's the most bizarre mix of music possible.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'd love to see some of your songs! And I can relate to the way you listen; I do that as well. It has been known to irritate the shit out of innocent bystanders, coworkers and people trapped in cars with me and the like. Not in recent years, though -- the ipod is truly a miraculous invention.