The Soundtrack of my Life (for now)

Anyone who knows me, knows that I absolutely love music. I spend a ton of time in the car for my job so I listen to music, podcasts, and audiobooks all the time. The most important thing I pay for every year is probably a subscription to Sirius XM.  Its borderline comical, because so many of my friends know about my love and knowledge of music that I get calls often asking, “who sings this song?” or “you know that song that goes like…”

In the essence of writing something fun and upbeat for you all this week, I decided that this edition of 5 things is going to be 5 songs…

Without further ado, here are 5 songs I can’t stop listening to right now

1.What Ifs-Kane Brown ft. Lauren Alaina

This song makes me feel all the feels and is one of the few country songs that has come out recently that has me singing my heart out in the car. This is my guilty pleasure song because it’s borderline cheesy, but I can’t stop enjoying it. Country is probably not my first pick for a music genre, but there are a few artists and songs that I enjoy, and this is one of them. Yes please judge me. 🙂

2.Every Day’s the Weekend-Alex Lahey

First, if you haven’t heard of Alex Lahey, you need to. This girl has a great voice and her music conveys so many of the things we all go through and in an appealing way. I first heard this song on AltNation on Sirius XM and I couldn’t help but do some major car dancing. It’s super peppy, but the truth is that the subject of the lyrics isn’t so peppy. Listen to the music first, then go back and listen to the lyrics. You’ll still want to dance a little, but you’ll also get that “ahh, this is about some tough love stuff” feeling. I downloaded this entire album and listened to it on one of my many drives this week and the whole damn thing is good, you guys. She’s Australian too, and that also makes me happy for some unknown reason. Give it a listen if you want to car dance and enjoy a peppy tune that is about a not so peppy subject.

3.Best Friend-Sofi Tukker ft. NERVO, The Knocks, and Alisa Ueno

This song just makes me happy… The lyrics, the music, all of it. I just want to dance and dance when I hear it. That’s a theme you’ll hear a lot in my musical selections. I love to dance, and I will break out into dance pretty much anywhere. Ask my husband, who has seen me bust into dance in the grocery store while singing into a corn cob. That totally actually happened, by the way.Anyway, this is just a happy, upbeat, dance alternative track that is new. Give it a listen and I bet you catch yourself at least tapping your foot.

4.Sit Next to Me- Foster the People

Just a nice, mid-tempo groove. I put this one on my workout playlist for a cool down track because it isn’t super slow, but it isn’t fast either.  Foster the People is a band I’ve always liked.  To me, every song they’ve released has had a different sound and feel.  The first album they released was played on repeat in my car for an entire summer several years ago.  This newest album isn’t quite the same for me, in that I can’t listen to the whole thing without skipping songs.  However, this song and Doing it for the Money are both great songs that came off the album and both are worthy of a listen if you haven’t heard them already.

5.What Lovers Do-Maroon 5 ft. SZA

I can hear this song in my head right now and I almost can’t help but move my head a little. This song is on my workout playlist, but as a good hype song. It’s one of those songs that just gets me going. I love this kind of songs for exercise and for hype songs. In my job, I often listen to a hype song in the car before I go in to make a sales call because it puts a happy, confident bit of pep in my step and sometimes we just need that. I have mostly been listening to alternative music lately, but this is one of a few super poppy songs that I can’t help but love to hear.

Obviously, we all have different taste in our musical selections… I would love to hear from some of you what you’re listening to so I can add to my playlists. I really do enjoy pretty much any and every type of music, and I promise not to judge you too hard, even if you’re still listening to the Jonas Brothers.