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Posted in reference to The Common People’s Tribute To The Spice Girls

The Spice Girls’s debut song Wannabe was the first non-country song I ever liked. Talk about changing a life forever. Amanda made it sound like us Spice Girls fans try to hide our love in a post-spice world (or post their hey-day), but we don’t. We just don’t have any other reason to post our somewhat embarassing past adventures/goings-on. But, for Amanda, I will.

In the name of Spice, I:

• memorized the lyrics to every song, listening to them so much that I could differentiate between girls, imitating the voices of each one;
• sang the words to every song, not realizing that many of the lyrics I was singing had adult meanings that I did not yet understand. I now understand my mom’s wide eyes and her probing questions that were attempting to gauge the level of my understanding–or lack thereof;*
• tried to wear platform sneakers, though they tended to make my feet fall sideways, threatening to break my ankles;
• watched Spice World so many times that I unconciously developed a British accent and subsequently (when told by my mom) got extremely excited and honored to have the accent of the Girls;
• called the radio station a few times to request Spice Girls songs–while using my British accent;** and
• can still, ten years later, hear their songs and sing along word for word and watch their movie and quote scenes word for word.

A little scared? If only you knew about my Backstreet obsession…

*What mother wouldn’t flinch as her 10 year old sang “tonight is the night when two become one”
**It probably wasn’t even close to an accurate British accent.

Coldplay is giving away a free download of their song Violet Hill for this week only. It’s pretty cool. At first listen it wasn’t my favorite but now I’m falling for it. Up there among my favorites (God Put A Smile & Rush of Blood).

Was a long and dark December
From the rooftops I remember
There was snow
White snow

Clearly I remember
From the windows they were watching
While we froze down below

When the future’s architectured
By a carnival of idiots on show
You’d better lie low

If you love me
Won’t you let me know?

Was a long and dark December
When the banks became cathedrals
And the fog
Became God

Priests clutched onto bibles
Hollowed out to fit their rifles
And the cross was held aloft

Bury me in armor
When I’m dead and hit the ground
My love’s like _____*
But I’m froze

If you love me
Won’t you let me know?

I don’t wanna be a soldier
the captain of some stinkin ship
would stow far below

So, If you love me
Why’d you let me go?

I took my love down to Violet Hill
There we sat in the snow.
All that time she was silent still.

So, If you love me
Won’t you let me know?
So, If you love me
Won’t you let me know?

You can download a free copy at Coldplay.com/Song.html this week only. :)

*Can’t understand that word; anyone else catch what he said?

Last night Josh and I went to the Seether, Breaking Benjamin, & Three Days Grace concert despite a tornado warning/watch/whatever. The opening band (Hurt; hadn’t heard of them before but they weren’t bad) performed amidst heavy raining that was blown under our covered seating and prevented any pictures from being taken. Thankfully, it stopped by the time the other bands played.

Definitely a must-go concert. Pictures are better than words so I’ll leave you with the pictures. There are more of Breaking Benjamin because I had to choose which to take more pictures of because of my camera’s short battery life (I used up four batteries throughout — ugh). BB is my favorite and I promised Shadow tons of pictures. My new camera’s zoom is a lot better than the last so I zoomed it to the max to get closeups; downside is they are blurry and fuzzled but you can still see better than the ones I took without the high zoom.

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Sooner or Later, Fake It Over and Over. I can’t wait until March 5th: Breaking Benjamin, Seether, and Three Days Grace in concert. *listens to their songs over and over*