Song of the Day - Timber - Pitbull and Ke$ha

Today is a long-awaited day for me, as two giant trees in front of my house will be coming down. I say a long time coming because they've needed to come down ever since I've been living here...since 1998.  As you can see from the picture, the two trees sit at the foot of my driveway, leaving little room for auto navigation and making the driveway itself very narrow.  Also, the trees are in pretty bad shape, physically, too.  A couple of years ago, Sandy completely shaved off the top half of the one closest to my front yard and for a while there, it looked like I had some sort of giant sculpture in front of my house...

So anyway, here's a perfect song for the day, for me...TIMBER!!!!!

Song of the Day - All I Really Want - Alanis Morissette

Do I stress you out?
My sweater is on backwards and inside out
And you say, "How appropriate"

I woke up to this classic opener to Alanis Morissette's breakthrough 1995 album Jagged Little Pill and so I just had to post it.  God, every single song off that record was full of clever lyrics over irresistible rockish-instrumentation.  If you're too young to know it the song or the album, you should definitely take a listen to this one and then go find the whole Jagged Little Pill album somewhere...You're gonna love it!

Flashback Friday Song of the Day - Mr. Saxobeat - Alexandra Stan

Here's a flashback to just three short years ago, when Romanian singer Alexandra Stan tore up the charts with this monster hit.  To this day, Mr. Saxobeat's original appearance on John's World is one of the most viewed posts ever on this blog.  Happy Friday!

Alexandra Stan - Mr Saxobeat by wiredset

Song of the Day - Forever - Chris Brown

Feels like I've waited my whole life

For this one night

It's gonna be me, you and the dance floor

I came into today's post not really knowing what song I was going to put up.  I took a look at the iTunes chart for the day and it is teeny bopper city, that is all Taylor Swift and One Direction (I know, they're not really teeny boppers anymore!).  I mean, who seems to own the heavy consumer hand in the music world?  You?  Me?  Eh eh, it's the good ole fashioned American teenage girl, who's got a crush on the boys from across the pond and wanna be just like their All American grown-up pop star.

Okay, okay, so I put up a couple of Taylor Swift songs in the past couple of weeks.  I didn't say I hated her, or One Direction for that matter, but please...they're not the only thing out there!  So since I've been going strong on a lot of new stuff lately, I've been forgetting that I can post an older tune anytime and not just on Friday.  So the other night, while my pal Kyle and I were eating dinner, the song I Can Only Imagine, by David Guetta with Chris Brown, came on and our conversation turned for a minute to the bad-ass imaged singer.

I like Chris Brown's music, my buddy mused.  His dance stuff is great!

I believe the same thing...Brown does have a voice that lends itself well to the dance floor.  And here's one that Kyle mentioned by name, one of my favorites of Brown's which I hadn't heard in a long time.  So yeah, it's Thursday, and we can definitely get lost on the dance floor in our minds as we plod through our days...Forever...