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Impromptu supermarket performance
Jun. 1st, 2011 02:59 pmOkaaay, memo to self: YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO LISTEN TO OTIS REDDING'S 'TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS' IN PUBLIC EVER AGAIN.
Hahaaa.
It's been years since I last was able to listen to that song and not sing along, I know every grunt and "no no". Appearantly I sing along without even noticing it. And every time I get to that part towards the end with "Gotta try, nah nah nah!" I can't stop myself from whipping my hair back and delivering that part with even more gusto.
Weird thing is, my irrepressible urge to act out that song like Redding came to me before I ever saw Pretty in Pink:
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Somehow I'd just made my own routine to that song independently.
When I first saw Pretty in Pink some years ago (there's no love lost between me John Hughes movies - except Ferris Bueller's Day Off, that's magnificent) I had a moment of "HOLY SHIT, THAT'S ME". (Though I'll echo a friend of mine and point out how horribly depressing it is to see Jon Cryer in Two and a Half Men, considering how great he was in the role of Duckie).
So anyway, that's the newest additon on the "let's just enjoy this song in private because it inevitably make me act like a fool" list. If you're curious, other songs on that list includes The Rolling Stone's 'Paint it black' (Mick Jagger-dancing should be an olympic discipline), Oingo Boingo's 'Violent love', Harry Belafonte's 'Jump in the line', Tom Jones' 'Chills and fever' (though I don't have that... range in the pelvic department) and Di Derre's 'Vampyren' (it was the only video with the song I could find okay).
I can't be the only one who still energetically performs songs when I'm alone like I'm an eight-yearold singing into a hairbrush, am I?
Am I?
Hahaaa.
It's been years since I last was able to listen to that song and not sing along, I know every grunt and "no no". Appearantly I sing along without even noticing it. And every time I get to that part towards the end with "Gotta try, nah nah nah!" I can't stop myself from whipping my hair back and delivering that part with even more gusto.
Weird thing is, my irrepressible urge to act out that song like Redding came to me before I ever saw Pretty in Pink:
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Somehow I'd just made my own routine to that song independently.
When I first saw Pretty in Pink some years ago (there's no love lost between me John Hughes movies - except Ferris Bueller's Day Off, that's magnificent) I had a moment of "HOLY SHIT, THAT'S ME". (Though I'll echo a friend of mine and point out how horribly depressing it is to see Jon Cryer in Two and a Half Men, considering how great he was in the role of Duckie).
So anyway, that's the newest additon on the "let's just enjoy this song in private because it inevitably make me act like a fool" list. If you're curious, other songs on that list includes The Rolling Stone's 'Paint it black' (Mick Jagger-dancing should be an olympic discipline), Oingo Boingo's 'Violent love', Harry Belafonte's 'Jump in the line', Tom Jones' 'Chills and fever' (though I don't have that... range in the pelvic department) and Di Derre's 'Vampyren' (it was the only video with the song I could find okay).
I can't be the only one who still energetically performs songs when I'm alone like I'm an eight-yearold singing into a hairbrush, am I?
Am I?
