What's In Your Head, Hayley Keller
By Hayley Keller
POSTED: October 28, 2008
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“Shut-up and let me go”
The Ting Tings
While I enjoy the pop overload of the ’90s, it’s very refreshing to flip on an iPod commercial and hear a purely poppy confectionary treat for 2008. This song makes me want to lace up the Chucks, slip on my hipster beret and aviators and dance, dance with my Bose buds tucked tightly in my lobes. Well, maybe I won’t be that endorphin intense, but thank God for descent, recent, straight up pop. It’s good for the dopamine levels.
“Children’s Story”
Slick Rick
Anytime I get discouraged by the li-li-lick me like a lollipop blues, I remember that there once was a man name Slick Rick. The pure genius of his as a matter of fact I am a rap God rhymes and his melodic jazzy vox can make any little white girl appreciate rap in its true form. Yes, even this white girl.
“Everlong”
Foo Fighters
Every once in a while it’s nice to go back to a song that never gets too old, too flannel, overplayed or lost in the grunge of the ’90s. The Foo Fighters are my rock, as in my rock in a sea of butt rock. As far as I’m concerned, David Grohl was born into the Nirvanian Monarchy and became nothing less than a Duke in rock royalty. I feel obliged anytime iPod shuffle brings this song to my playlist. It’s the beginning of my academic year and time to get back in the swing of football games, all nighters, early mornings and far too many hangovers. Personally, there’s no better way to kick off the season than with a song that welcomes nostalgia and familiarity that will slap your game faces on ... then melt them off.
