Never expected to like Bruno Mars at all, but now he's rather grown on me. And this song (which I first heard at my cousin's daughter's wedding) is one of my most favorites.
I also like "Grenade" (very, very applicable to some of my characters) and "It Will Rain" and "When I Was Your Man."
The guy's looks sure don't hurt, either.
One of Adele's few songs that I listen to regularly (my most favorite is "Set Fire to the Rain") and I had great fun with these facial expressions, as I often do!
I don't really listen to Jennifer Lopez, with the major exception of this song.
I could never get enough of *NSYNC as a kid, and while this was never one of my favorite songs, it's still a good one.
It really does give you a kind of sick feeling when you see your ex with somebody else...although you must also pity the new person, because in this song, the girl is just using him to make the first guy jealous: "I can tell that you don't really love that guy/But there's no need for you to go and waste your time."
To me, few things are more deplorable than somebody using somebody else for personal gain, for treating them like a toy, for making them "believe" that you care about them for real.
That's what my Tyrell is guilty of with his first girlfriend Candy, so it only makes perfect sense that they eventually break up for good, though they still maintain a decent friendship. Candace can't very well say she was an angel herself.
Thus completes Week 1 of 2022 Musical May!
Possibly Randy Newman's most controversial song. It's not supposed to be taken seriously but a lot of people take it the wrong way anyway. In any case, I like it. It's catchy enough, and Randy Newman has always had an incredible sense of rhythm.
I still find it absurd that people sang his praises so much for his songs for the Pixar movies, but blasted him for composing the songs for The Princess and the Frog. Pretty hypocritical if you ask me, not to mention a case of pure sour grapes just because Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz weren't doing the honors this time. Again, I personally enjoy the soundtrack; my most favorite from that one has to be "Down in New Orleans."
Pixar-wise, it's a tie between "If I Didn't Have You" from Monsters, Inc. and "The Time of Your Life" from A Bug's Life.
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You may have noticed that many of my heroes are on the short side. Reid is a bit of a small fry himself (one of the many reasons he was bullied so much) but he's all heart and he's also made of solid iron; he can literally hit you where it hurts. Opal, Lara, and Kaylee are short, too, and my elf Aldridge, and Beowulf is possibly the smallest of all the werewolves.
In Beowulf's case, his small size serves him well and he becomes that much more intimidating; it's all the easier for him to hide (and take you by surprise) and all the harder for you to hide from him. The fact that he's so intelligent makes him all the more formidable.
Only his humanity (or what's left of it) keeps him in check, so you're all right as long as you don't give him a reason to come after you.
Not my best work, but a decent tribute to James Taylor's most famous song.
I was positively obsessed with this song as a kid. My dad, who was very selective about the kind of music he listened to, liked A*TEENS very much and told me I had excellent taste. So, this song carries both fond childhood memories and comforting memories of Dad.
On a side note, happy "Star Wars Day" to those of you who commemorate it. "May the Fourth be with you" makes me think of Sylvester the Cat. Thweet thufferin' thuccotath...
