The songs in my life

There are some times in my life when I will be addicted to a song. Sometimes it'll be playing over and over again in my head that the only way for me to get it out is to sing it out. And it sometimes irritate my friends and family cos I'll be singing the same stanza from the song for days. But it's not like I can help it. These catchy songs are constantly around me! Like after I finished the series of a drama, the song from the show will instantly be in my head for the next couple of days. Or when my high school mates kept playing Jay Chou's Qi Li Xiang for days every time our class had a break. Or when I set my ipod to play Independent Women by Destiny's Child so that I can walk faster to my workplace.

But when I stopped listening to them and then start listening to them again after a few months, the feeling I had at that time when I was hocked on the songs will come back to me. For instance, when my ipod starts playing Independent Women while I'm walking home from school, the dreaded feeling of going to work would hit me and for a second, my brain receives mixed signals. It cannot tell if I'm feeling relief that my day is over or if adrenalin should be pumped into my muscles so that I can run to work.

And because I have this tendency of associating the songs I'd listened to with the whole physical, emotional situation that I was in when listening to them, I have come to dislike many songs. Not for their lyrics or the singer or anything. But purely because I have attached negative feelings to them. One of the songs which had the misfortune of being my morning alarm and hence has acquired my dislike is RISE-ASEAN by Stefanie Sun. However I need to mention that this is a great song (mind you, this was the official theme song for ASEAN's 40th anniversary celebrations) and Sun is one of my favourite singers (I love her voice and music style).

For a few seconds there, I searched my mind for a song I liked best. But there are so many of them and I cannot choose a favourite. I like upbeat songs like Lian Ai ING by Mayday, Are You Gonna Be My Girl by JET, Five Colours In Her Hair by Mcfly, First Day by Stefanie Sun, FIR and Mayday, and the list goes on. What are some of your favourite songs?