Tuesday Tunes: Kissing, Love, and Clarity

     It is time for Tuesday Tunes and today I am highlighting a selection of songs that are polar opposites from each other in sound and attitude. 

      The first song on the agenda is “Clarity” performed by Zedd featuring Foxes.  I love the driving force behind this song and the message behind the lyrics.  It describes a love that is pure insanity and a tad bit dangerous…but vital.  The kind of love that is discussed in the song is laced with passion and may not provide the healthiest of relationships due to the fact it is based on pure lust and little else.  It is like a drug.  Once tasted and experienced, you simply have got to have more and more.   The song is addicting, and the more I listen to it, the more I love it.  Even the art direction of the video is mesmerizing and goes hand and hand to promote this song in superb fashion.  It talks of a love so blinding and a passion so enormous one forgets common sense.  In my opinion it is pure brilliance and there is little wonder why it is taking the world by storm holding steady at number 8 on Billboard’s hot 100 charts.  You can relate to it.  It is the stuff of fantasies.

     The next song I am highlighting is performed by none other than Blake Shelton.  Today this song makes me smile.   It contains attitude and I love it.  It is the kind of song you sing along with and celebrate.  I actually thought of highlighting another of Blake’s songs today…but since I am struggling to adjust to the new regime of waking up at 5:30 in the morning  to insure my kids are on the bus when it rolls past, it certainly reflects the current mood.  I am obviously sleep deprived and half past give a shit so it only seems fitting that I should include “Kiss My Country Ass” in today’s lineup.  This song insists I sing along and even let out a rebel yell at key points.  It is a party song, plain and simple and I love it.

  

      My last selection today is performed by Maroon 5 titled “Love Somebody”.     I love the lyrics and beat of this song.  It encompasses the desire to love and be loved.  Once you have loved, you are never the same again.  It is a happy, feel good kind of song and that is probably what I like about it most.  Two thumbs up on the art direction for the video.  It is spectacular, symbolic, and spot on.  How ironic that I started this post with love, spiraled into a celebratory kissing of my country ass, and ended up wanting to love somebody in the end just as frantically as I did at the first.  It can only happen on Tuesday, and perhaps that is why I love my Tuesday tunes so much!  

The Mysterious Cat of “The Voice” and NaBloPoMo

      After much debate and going back and forth about “whether” I want to commit to accepting the challenge of blogging each and every day in the month of March for NaBloPoMo, I have decided to go for it!  It just might be fun.  This month the theme is “whether” or “weather” which seems pretty appropriate for the unpredictable month of March.  It could rain, it could snow, it could be warm, or it could be cold.  Either way I am going to take up the gauntlet and run with it!

       The worry that I won’t find enough to write about that anyone in their right mind will really want to read hangs over my little head.  Hells bells, not that much happens in my neck of the woods!!  Still, I have some definite opinions about some things that scream to be addressed.  For example, I love watching “The Voice” every Monday night.  There is only one thing about the whole show that perplexes me and leaves me in a state of giggles…Cee lo Green and his mysterious disappearing and reappearing pussy cat.  One minute he is chilling out listening to the contestants on “The Voice” giving their all and the next he is holding the most gorgeous white pussy cat one ever hoped to see. Where in the hell did the cat come from?  I know that they can do awesome things with camera tricks, but one minute there is no cat to be found, and the next…he is holding this cat.  The next minute the cat is gone.  The disappearing-reappearing cat has become a standing joke in my living room.   My kids and I joke that he MUST shove the cat down his pants or in his shirt and then whip it out when the mood strikes.

          While watching the show this last week, another little tidbit made us laugh like crazy as well.  Not that long before the airing of the show a friend of mine had posted a picture of Adam Levine on Face Book wearing only his tattoos and a smile.  It was one of those pictures that jump out at you and get your attention like a physical slap.  Realization slowly dawns that “Hey that is Adam Levine from “The Voice” and then the realization hits that the guy is obviously naked!  So at an opportune moment when Adam was giving his humble opinion of why someone should be on his team I spoke up out of the clear blue sky “Wonder if he knows I seen him naked on Face Book?!” which got some crazy looks from the kids before we all laughed ourselves silly once again.

           There are a lot of great reason’s to watch “The Voice’ besides Cee lo’s pussy cat sightings and Adam Levine.  There is the task of checking out that outfit Christina is almost wearing or falling out of.  There is Blake Shelton, who is cool without trying.  There is all the awesome raw talent that is being discovered.  Will they turn their chairs around or won’t they?? Will they all end up with mascots?  That is the question!  


        

        Without even trying, my post comes full circle and I am back to the subject of Cee lo’s cat.  After a little research I have discovered that Cee lo’s cat “Purrfect” is his secret weapon and is near and dear to his heart.   Not only that, Cee lo’s cat is on Twitter!   Anyway you slice it, “The Voice” is a fun show, no doubt about it and you can bet money I will be tuned in every week!   Will I be able to write everyday in March?  Considering I just wrote a post about nothing in particular about “The Voice” right off the top of my head, I would say it is pretty likely I will be able to pull it off.  Stay tuned until next time I give another glimpse into the life of a trucker’s wife.