I was there for four years and we’d go to Los Angeles for the Oscars every February, and one of those times was La La Land’s year. Like some others on the playlist, it brings back strong memories of my time in the United States. Also, my toddler absolutely loves it – it’s a song I sing as if it were a lullaby to get her to go to sleep.Īnother Day of Sun from the La La Land soundtrack is another uplifting, sunshiney type of song. It’s so summery and beachy, and it just transports you to the “olden days” when we could have those kinds of holidays. It’s on the playlist for the summer that we never had last year.
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Harry Styles’s Watermelon Sugar is probably the most recent song on the list. I love the rap in it, and that’s something I can do in a karaoke room. So in a karaoke situation, Gangsta’s Paradise by Coolio is the track I turn to. While I absolutely love singing, I wouldn’t enter any contests – it’s best done in private. Harry Styles’s Watermelon Sugar is so summery and beachy, and it just transports you to the ‘olden days’ when we could have those kinds of holidays I shudder to think how old Insomnia by Faithless is, but it’s stood the test of time.
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Faithless, Mark McCabe and Beyoncé and Britney have great running tracks, but they also go back to a time in my life, in my late teens or early 20s, when you could go out all the time, with no trouble staying up late and going into work the next day. Numb/Encore by Linkin Park has such energy and a party spirit to it.
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I go for music that has big beats or a strong bassline, to use the timing. I tend to listen to music when I’m running or working out.