Saturday, June 02, 2007

the year I turned legal

tagged by imp, I flipped through the musty pages of my mental diary, reminiscing on some of the classic moments in that year. Am afraid these 5 songs are very pop, very commercial. But they still hold their weight in my heart, and I still happily hum and sing along whenever they come on the radio. And yup, they are still on my iTunes, and make me smile at the memories. :p

18 in the vintage of bemusedtots is when she::
studied at one college, but was seen more often at another. had her first serious relationship. scrambled at the last minute over the dreaded A levels, after close to 2 years of slacking. taught chinese for three months to pre-schoolers. passed her Grade 8 in plonking keys. got accepted into her dream course in uni. worked 15-hour days at a temp job. went on her first tour to HK with two other gal pals.

And here are the songs on my list. Don't laugh. :p

1. Flying without Wings by Westlife
What would the 90's be without Boy Bands?? While I wasn't one of those who went crazy over them, I think I liked Westlife the most (for their songs - I can hardly tell them apart!), and this song from their debut was my favourite. Loved the lyrics.

2. How Do I Live by Leann Rimes
Yes, the Love Song of my time, I think. Overplayed it may be, but never fails to turn everyone all sappy and singing along.

3. Crash and Burn by Savage Garden
I realise I'm really into all these 'love yourself, have faith in yourself' songs. Trivia: oh, I remember a certain radio personality got herself into hot soup for playing this song right after reporting on a plane crash tragedy. *snigger*

4. Someday by Sugar Ray
A perfect song to listen to while bumming on the beach. It's just has this lazy breezy feel that I heart.

5. Angel by Sarah McLachlan
This was my personal favourite by her. While I do agree with Imp that she can border on whiny, thought she sounded good in this, the way she effortlessly hits the high high notes. Power.


The Rules

1. Go to www.popculturemadness.com

2. Select the year you turned 18

3. Get all nostalgic over the songs of the year

4. Write about it

5. Pass this tag onto 5 others

And this tag goes out to: yuling, aokisan, enirrac, winnie-t, blame-less. :)

4 comments:

imp said...

(2) i confess i like Leann Rimes. Heh.

i only remember (3) when you mentioned it!!! heee....aiyoh. how could she have been so dense?!

(5) still kills me everytime i play it. and i stumble over every other note.

yuling said...

me done it! :p

mummybean said...

haha, i've yet to get round to doing this cos i'm sure i'll shock everyone with my bad taste in music! hee.

b.muse said...

imp: Haha exactly. I was rolling my eyes at her defense 'it was not me.. that song was auto-generated by the playlist system'. :p

yuling: yeah thanks babe! :)

beanbean: haha no worries.. See i very shamelessly included boyband songs too! Hee. Share share.. I'm curious to know yours too! =)