Year 6, Day 167

Good Morning! Today's song is Mi Gente by J Balvin and Willy William.

Happy Halloween!! It worked out that one of my latest jam songs comes up on the special day this week. Now I have not dressed up in years, but I appreciate the people who do still get into the spirit of it. Two people this year in my family dressed up as princesses, one being my 6 year old cousin, and the other was... my mom. Although my cousin also has a second costume for tonight as a Descendants character so power on teensy child. I myself never went as a princess. I was only ever a black cat when I was a teeny child, a witch for like ten years straight, a vampire to terrify the children when I volunteered at schools, and for one brief year in high school I was roadkill as a commentary only the ears only costumes. I want to know what costumes you guys do every year. Do you guys still dress up? Why or why not? Let me know.

Peace.

Year 6, Day 166

Good Morning! Today's song is Bailando by Enrique Iglesias.

I've had this song saved so long to feature that I thought I'd already done it. This is one that my sister and I argued about because we both knew it, but different versions of the song. She listens to the English one. It's kind of amazing how perspective and what you hear first shapes how you feel. Like when you hear the remix of a song first and from then on your brain assumes that's the correct way it sounds, despite not being the original. Same deal with a remake of a song, or in this case, a version in a different language. I can think of a couple songs where the original is not the one I'm drawn to. Do you guys have any like that? Let me know.

Peace.

Year 6, Day 165

Good Morning! Today's song is Despacito by Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee.

I'm hoping it's now been long enough that this song has moved from a bop to super annoying from being overplayed and back to able to listen to again. And no, I refuse the Justin Bieber one because I hate him. So when I was figuring out an order for songs to go in, I unintentionally ended up doing a Spanish song section which started yesterday. There has been a huge surge in international music, Spanish in particular that seemed to start with this song so it's only fitting to bring it in for this. I personally don't speak a lick of it, but as I've said before when featuring songs in other languages, music is about way more than understanding what's being said. You get the feel of it when you listen, and sometimes that's enough. So all the songs I'm featuring are ones I really like, songs that make me groove like a loser in my room, so join in with me and shout out some of your favorites in the comments.

Peace.

Year 6, Day 164

Good Morning! Today's song is Reggaetón Lento by CNCO.

CNCO has been around since 2015 and is made up of Christopher Vélez, Richard Camacho, Zabdiel De Jesús, Joel Pimentel De Leon, and Erick Brian Colon. They are a boy band that formed on a Latin singing competition called La Banda. The name is for the world Cinco, meaning five because there are five members. Their debut single came out in 2016, followed by them touring with Ricky Martin. They released a studio album later that year, and released another one in 2018. They've been nominated for a bunch of awards and seem pretty popular so I'm looking forward to seeing more from them.

Peace.

Year 6, Day 163

Good Morning! Today's song is Senorita by Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello.

I haven't gotten around to researching these guys, but I have done their stuff before which makes me think I've already done their overviews before so I'm just going to do a quick blurb about me to get today out of the way because I'm loopy as hell from T3's. I got my wisdom teeth out. I had to wait two months for a consult, but then they got me in for the procedure two days later because of a cancellation so now I am chilling out at home, trying not to be paranoid about post op problems with half my face looking like a chipmunk and a bunch of medication that I can barely swallow. Needless to say I'm not really firing on all cylinders right now, but I'll try and get my act together...tomorrow. Not today. Today I need to lie down before I pass out.

Peace.

Year 6, Day 162

Good Morning! Today's song is How Long by Charlie Puth.

I'm not going to write about Charlie Puth because I've already done it once, but I do have a fun factoid about this video straight from the horses mouth via one of his interviews on YouTube. He apparently thinks this one his most awkward music video to film because it's just him do weird dance moves the whole time. Which is a good segway because I've had this song saved since I became absolutely obsessed with a choreographed dance to a remix of this song, which I like almost more than the original. So today you get the original song, the remix, and a link to the dance video I'm talking about because I love it so much. Like I honestly wish I could do anything as fluid as these dancers do so mad props to any dancers out there. Respect.

Peace.

Year 6, Day 161

Good Morning! Today's song is Decade of Pop by Adamusic.

Adamusic is Adam Wright, a guy from Michigan whose passion seems to be remixes. I don't have any official bio for him to work off of, but he's got all the social media to look at. This is a mashup that I'm showing you, but he does have some original stuff and a patreon, so if you like what you hear, you should check out his YouTube channel and go support him on patreon if you're up for it. I listen to mashups a lot and this is one of the better ones I've found so I figured it would be a good addition to this blog for today.

Peace.