What’s your song? You know that song you sing into your hairdryer when no one is watching and you turn it up to “HIGH” so you can blast your lungs out. I have two. Actually more than two, but my “go to” songs are “We Belong” by Pat Benatar and “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” by Whitney Houston. Those are my “I am FEELING IT” songs. There is something about belonging to the light AND the thunder that has always pulled me into PBT and her epic rock ballads. And Whitney?? Come on, “say ya wanna dance, dontcha wanna dance, say ya wanna dance” repeated like 14 times, is right there enough to hook me & my hair drying sessions for life.

Then come the Karaoke songs… “La Bamba” by Ritchie Valens is actually a fave karaoke song for me. I don’t actually speak Spanish, but I understand every word he’s saying & can sing it totally by memory by now. Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” is a really great song for karaoke too, especially if you’re not with a really competitive crowd and people are feeling especially fun and flirty.

Car songs are a whole different ball game. Those are the songs you’re willing to risk looking like a total idiot to strangers everywhere to blare at the top of your lungs in your car along with either your radio, iPod or CD Player.

I tend to gravitate towards songs like “John Cougar, John Deer, John:13” by Keith Urban or “Sunday Morning ” or “Makes Me Wonder” by Maroon 5 for those types of songs. They all just have a great beat to them & make me want to SING! Keith makes me nostalgic and also want to just drive around on backcountry roads singing about “Marilyn Monroe & the Garden of Eden…never growing up, & never growing old!” And Maroon 5 always makes good use of a curse word. It never feels auxiliary, but instead like it was necessary for it to be part of the narrative. “It really makes me wonder if I …”

My newest “go to” for a good dashboard concert is “My Church” by Maren Morris. That girl can SING!! She TAKES you to church in that song!! It’s absolutely amazing. Talking all about Hank Williams leading the sermon & Johnny Cash leading the choir. She gets me singing like a little choir girl by the time the song is over.

So what’s your song? What makes you sing your heart out and just “FEEL IT” with the hairdryer? What song makes you feel brave at Karaoke? And what song does the interior of your car most frequently get to hear?

They say music feeds the soul, and in the end, all these songs are what help make up the soundtrack of our lives. And that’s just the really “good stuff”.