I totally forgot about this!

So I was looking through some of my old VHS home videos and I found a "campaign video" that Jennie, Caitlin, and I made for 11th grade government class. I was running for "president" because we were learning about the election process. I actually made it to the second round of elections. In the video we had gone to all of the places that I had worked including the Dollar Tree and Tim Hortons. We had also gone to a sporting goods store and Chuck E. Cheese to get "endorsed". I remember we were rushing to put this video together and it was snowing that day. We had so much fun and our video was HILARIOUS! It is kind of embarassing but....here you go. ENJOY!

Stop making me feel like I've gone crazy! I know this song was out before!

A couple of months ago I was driving one of my foster kids (that we will call Kelly) to an appointment and Adele came on the radio. Kelly loved Adele and she was talking about how she really liked the song Rumor Has It. When the DJ intro'd the song he said "Here is the new song from Adele, Rumor Has It". I turned to Kelly and said "This song isn't new! They released it after Rolling in the Deep!" Then, after that time of hearing it refered to as a new song the DJ's kept doing it. I was so frustrated because I KNEW it wasn't a new song, they just re-released it. Then it made me remember back in the 90's when they did it with the Savage Garden song To the Moon and Back. I remember talking to all my friends about how great the song was but the song wasn't new. Everyone INSISTED that I didn't know what I was talking about and there is no way this song was out previously. I just knew they had released it once before and it even had a different music video! I know because during the course of the time when Savage Garden was out the lead singer lost some weight and you can see the difference between the two videos. This evening I had to look it up and to my satisfaction :) I found both videos! I knew I wasn't crazy but the record companies need to stop doing this to me cuz I temporarily doubt my sanity.

First Version

Re-Release Version

So long story short I read that after they debuted with "I Want You" or the chicka cherry cola song they came out with To the Moon and Back. It didn't do well here in the states but the next song "Truely, Madly, Deeply" did great. After that they decided to re-release To the Moon and Back and it was a hit, a brand new hit to many, but not to me :) This has been driving me nuts and I'm so glad I found both music videos because back then we couldn't prove this kind of stuff so easily....but we can now!

I could never be your woman....or man....um...

My Throwback Thursday pick for this week is the awesome song "Your Woman" by Whitetown. It was one of those songs that defines the mid 90's. It was during the midst of the shock factor uprising with Marilyn Manson doing his/her thang, discovering that Billie Meyers was a woman, and countless others, this song definitely kept us scratching our heads searching for answers. Was it a man or a woman singing the song? What perspective were they singing from? What am I supposed to think? I just recently saw the video for the first time (I know pretty shocking!) and it was an awesome video.....but tell me, did it answer any of your questions cuz it certainly didn't answer any of mine.

Don't act like you didn't do it!

This Throwback Thursday song is none other than....The Macarena! The dance everyone did but now wishes they could forget. I can't explain to you why it was so popular but everyone and their mom knows how to do it....and if it came on at a wedding (with no videographer) you would probably do it.

The song came out the summer of 1996 and us Teen Camp campers danced the hell out of that dance. I really wish I had the footage of that cuz we were a mess! Enjoy the video....and don't fight the feeling to join in :)

The summer The Mask was....SMOKIN!!!

I just finished watching Aladdin on ABC family tonight and then the movie The Mask starts. I can't resist watching either of those movies but it is 12:30am for gods sake! I'm trying to convince myself to only stay up until the Cuban Pete number is over....but I can't guarantee anything. Watching this movie makes me think of a lot of great memories, like when I got the awesome soundtrack for The Mask movie as a family day present. But, the first thing that came to mind was the summer this movie came out and the trailer scared me so bad I stopped watching TV until it stopped showing on TV! It was the summer of '94 and my brother and I stayed the summer at our grandparents. My grandparents had a huge 70 inch projection screen TV and we used to love to sit right up next to it and watch the amazing box in action. Well, one day I was picking something up that had fallen right next to the TV and the trailer for the Mask came on.

In the commercial Stanleys face was swallowed by a mask, he spun around in a huge Tazmanian Devil twister, his eyes popped out of his head and his tongue rolled out of his mouth and it scared the sh*t out of me. Can you imagine being right up next to 70 inches of that right in your face! Needless to say I was shaken up quite a bit by that. I didn't realize how bad it was until we were watching TV and it came on again. I freaked out and then decided I could no longer watch TV. Well, I still wanted to watch TV but didn't want to risk seeing this scary commerical. So, my little 10 year old mind figured I would be safe if all I watched was QVC and thats what I did. I only watched QVC the rest of the summer! It was extreme but I was safe lol. The movie came out in theaters and my Dad and brother (who is 5 years younger than me) saw it and loved it. Then, when the movie came out on VHS my brother had to get it. I think it was more to scare me than anything and it worked. I was terrified to even see the cover and my brother would use it against me any chance he got. I eventually saw it a few months after we got it and I ended up LOVING IT! That is why I cant go to sleep tonight, because I am watching a movie that used to scare the living daylights out of me and now I cant resist it!

So....I did go to bed but I had to watch Cuban Pete.....

Yep, totally worth it!

Playing catch up with a little "Give It To You"

I missed last weeks Throwback Thursday post and I was just thinking about how we perceive things when we are younger compared to how we perceive things now. That got me to thinking about the dance moves in the video for Give it to You by Jordan Knight. That song came out in 1999 and I adored it. It was so fun and danceable, but it was a little dirty ;). I was a good girl and I didn't think about it like that in those days lol. What I really loved about the song was the video. It was set at a fair which I loved and it was super colorful. Plus, the video had what I thought was a killer dance routine! Check it out!

I watched this video about 4 months ago with one of my friends who used to be a professional dancer and we laughed our a**es off! This was the cheesiest thing we had ever seen! Especially the part towards then end when Jordan is shakin his groove thang on the leading lady. Now again, when I was a freshman in HS this video was the bomb but boy how our vision changes over 13 years! I still love this song and video but it now takes on a whole different meaning. What did you think of the dancing? Have you had any interesting perception changes lately? Share Share Share!

Blaque goes boom....like an 808!

My Throwback Thursday (on Friday....I know...) jam this week is 808 by the group Blaque.

This song came out in 1999 and the album was great also! I was also very lucky because I was able to meet this awesome group when I was a freshman in HS. When we moved to Saline we ended up meeting this really nice family that lived up the street. It was also great because we lived in a town that wasn't very diverse and they were another black family that lived close to us. The family had two young girls and their parents asked me to babysit them during the summer. The first time I babysat for them after I was done the girls father asked me if I had ever heard of the group Blaque. "Of course I have!" I replied "I really like the song 808". The girls father then told me that the lead singer of the group was his other daughter Shamari. I thought I was in heaven! My new found information made me love this group even more. After continuing to babysit Shamari's half sisters for about 6 months they invited me to go and see the girls perform at the summer music festival. We got to the concert late and we were able to stand on the side of the stage as they performed! We also got to hang out in the girls dressing room and meet the other artist that were there! It was one of the greatest nights of my life! Blaque's dressing room was even across from Destinys Child's dressing room and Beyonce waved at me! That was definitely an amazing time in my life and I am very happy Blaque's album was the soundtrack to my summer that year.

    On a side note....look at those braces lol. I do not miss my awkward years :)