Here are 16 songs that will bring your inner goddess out, have you walking tall, and not taking any nonsense from anyone. Because, not only do these songs celebrate the power and beauty of being a woman; they are sung by women. So, let us get ready to rock, jam, dance, and two-step our way to empowerment. These songs will make a great addition to your work out tape. I have limited my selections to one song per artist, but these ladies have many good songs.
1. Girl on Fire - Alicia Keys
2. Part of Me - Katy Perry
3. Most Girls - Pink
4. Run the World - Beyonce
5. Independent Women - Destiny's Child
6. It's My Party - Jessie J
7. Burn - Ellie Goulding
8. Royals - Lorde
9. Girlfriend - Avril Lavigne
10. Hollaback Girl - Gwen Stefani
11. Circus - Britney Spears
12. Can't Be Tamed - Miley Cyrus
13. One Girl Revolution - Superchick
14. Rebel Girl - Bikini Kill
15. Girl Power - Cheetah Girls
16. Good Woman Down - Mary J Blige
Sunday, February 28, 2016
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Monday, February 22, 2016
Friday, February 19, 2016
Shaving Soap
Bentonite clay is found in naturally occurring volcanic ash sediment here in the United States. It has been traditionally used to assist in mineral deficiencies, and to help bind toxins making them more soluble. This shaving soap is made with Shea butter, glycerin, almond oil, real honey, and bentonite clay. It produces a nice thick lather and smells wonderful.
Monday, February 8, 2016
Proposed Mash-Ups
Some songs share similar elements: the refrain, the tempo, the bass line, etc. And it is easy to hear similarities in certain songs. Here are a few songs I have picked out for you audiofiles that are just ripe for creating me a mash-up. You know how much I love a good mash-up!
1. Beatles - Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da and Offspring - Get a Job
2. TLC - No Scrubs and IMx - Stay The Night
Just try not to stare at his crotch while you watch the video.
3. Sara Barelles - Brave and Katy Perry - Roar
4. Beyonce - Halo and Kelly Clarkson - Already Gone
5. Madona - Express Yourself and Lady Gaga - Born This Way
1. Beatles - Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da and Offspring - Get a Job
2. TLC - No Scrubs and IMx - Stay The Night
Just try not to stare at his crotch while you watch the video.
3. Sara Barelles - Brave and Katy Perry - Roar
4. Beyonce - Halo and Kelly Clarkson - Already Gone
5. Madona - Express Yourself and Lady Gaga - Born This Way
Sunday, February 7, 2016
Chicken Soup... Again.
3-4 lb chicken ($.97/lb at Aldis all week!)
4 carrots
1 head of celery
2 medium shallots
salt, pepper, paprika, ginger, ginseng, lemon grass, etc.
Place chicken in the Hot Pot. Cut the top three inches off the top of celery and add the leaves to the pot along with two of the carrots. Peel shallots, slice if you prefer, and add to pot along with your chosen seasonings. Add water to Hot Pot being careful not to fill beyond max fill line. Place the lid on the Instant Pot, set the pressure valve to 'seal' and select 'Poultry', which will give 15 minutes of pressure cooking. (It will take about 15 minutes for the liquid inside to come to a boil and build up pressure, then it will pressure cook for 15 minutes. Total cook time 30 minutes). Strain soup. Add in the extra carrots, shredded chicken, and more seasoning. Allow to sit on warm until carrots are tender.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Perpetual Piffle
It happens at work. You pass by someone in the halls, or on the way to your desk. They’re humming something to themselves and you can’t make it out until you get close… and then it's too late. You won’t be able to wrestle the song out of your head for weeks. You gradually lose all sense of sanity until you’re brainlessly writhing on the floor humming the same tune over and over to yourself.
The Hampster Dance
This song is why therapy was invented.
Crazy Frog - Axel F
This poor rendition of the Magnum PI theme tune was one of the worst pieces of music ever released. Couple that with an irritating CGI frog, and you’ve got a recipe for the most annoying creature ever created by the industry.
Cotton eyed Joe - Rednex
Where do you even begin with this? Techno plus redneck plus an electro-fiddle. They perfectly captured what dragging a plastic fork across a china plate sounds like if you extended it into a song.
Friday - Rebecca Black
When the 13-year-old had her parents buy her the chance to make her own music video, there’s no way she could have predicted how ‘successful’ that video would be. It's as if the lyrics were found in a "My First Words" dictionary.
Chinese Food - Alison Gold
It it wasn't so topically offensive,it would make an excellent Disney Kids song.
Crush On you - Nero
The video begins with scenes of a teenage schoolboy romancing four teenage schoolgirls on what appears to be the grounds of a British boarding school. The four girls are then seen together singing along to a karaoke track of the song in a dorm room followed by a scene where they, along with other girls, dance in a circle in a field while wearing white nightgowns. The video then takes a darker tone, as lightning strikes the dormitory and the four girls writhe on the floor. As the video continues, it is revealed that the girls cast a spell on the boy in front of a love shrine in the dorm room. The video ends with the boy fully clothed and unconscious on a dorm room bed, with his book bag under his arm. Each of the four original girls appear separately and sing into his ear that they have a crush on him.
Mahna Mahna - The Muppets
A sonic earworm of the worst kind. If it is your ringtone you are probably secretly a serial killer.
Ode To Joy - The Muppets
Meep meep meep meep.
Earth Song - Michael Jackson
"What about elephants? Have we lost their trust?" ponders MJ in this moment of multi-millionaire-looking-out-of-his-Lear-Jet-but-trying-to-sing-about-the-issues environmental sincerity.
The Hampster Dance
This song is why therapy was invented.
Crazy Frog - Axel F
This poor rendition of the Magnum PI theme tune was one of the worst pieces of music ever released. Couple that with an irritating CGI frog, and you’ve got a recipe for the most annoying creature ever created by the industry.
Cotton eyed Joe - Rednex
Where do you even begin with this? Techno plus redneck plus an electro-fiddle. They perfectly captured what dragging a plastic fork across a china plate sounds like if you extended it into a song.
Friday - Rebecca Black
When the 13-year-old had her parents buy her the chance to make her own music video, there’s no way she could have predicted how ‘successful’ that video would be. It's as if the lyrics were found in a "My First Words" dictionary.
Chinese Food - Alison Gold
It it wasn't so topically offensive,it would make an excellent Disney Kids song.
Crush On you - Nero
The video begins with scenes of a teenage schoolboy romancing four teenage schoolgirls on what appears to be the grounds of a British boarding school. The four girls are then seen together singing along to a karaoke track of the song in a dorm room followed by a scene where they, along with other girls, dance in a circle in a field while wearing white nightgowns. The video then takes a darker tone, as lightning strikes the dormitory and the four girls writhe on the floor. As the video continues, it is revealed that the girls cast a spell on the boy in front of a love shrine in the dorm room. The video ends with the boy fully clothed and unconscious on a dorm room bed, with his book bag under his arm. Each of the four original girls appear separately and sing into his ear that they have a crush on him.
Mahna Mahna - The Muppets
A sonic earworm of the worst kind. If it is your ringtone you are probably secretly a serial killer.
Ode To Joy - The Muppets
Meep meep meep meep.
Earth Song - Michael Jackson
"What about elephants? Have we lost their trust?" ponders MJ in this moment of multi-millionaire-looking-out-of-his-Lear-Jet-but-trying-to-sing-about-the-issues environmental sincerity.
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Happy 'Groundhog Day'
If Candlemas be fair and bright,
Winter has another flight.
If Candlemas brings clouds and rain,
Winter will not come again.
Shadow or not, winter does not end until March 20.
Monday, February 1, 2016
Sunshine and Rain Clouds
These bright and peppy songs have a center as cold as ice. Sometimes heavy lyrical messages are disguised behind uplifting music. This is why I always recommend listening to the lyrics.
1. Jump - Van Halen
The synth line was written around 1981 by Eddie Van Halen but it was refused by the other members of the band. In 1983, producer Ted Templeman asked Roth to take a listen to the unused song idea. Roth listened repeatedly to the song. To come up with a lyric for it, he remembered seeing a television news report the night before about a man who was threatening to commit suicide by jumping off of a high building. Roth thought that one of the onlookers of such a scene would probably shout "go ahead and jump". Roth bounced this suggestion off of Hostler who agreed it was good. Instead of being about a threatened suicide, the words were written as an invitation to love.
2. Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People
"Pumped Up Kicks" became the group's breakthrough hit and was one of the most popular songs of 2011. The lyrics are written from the perspective of a troubled and delusional youth with homicidal thoughts. The lines in the chorus warn potential victims to "outrun my gun" and that they "better run, better run, faster than my bullet."
3. Some Nights - Fun
An indie pop song with elements of power pop and afrobeat while the lyrics depict the protagonist having an existential crisis. There is a common theme of decrying fame and the notoriety it brings. "Some nights I stay up cashing in my bad luck / Some nights I call it a draw / Some nights I wish that my lips could build a castle / Some nights I wish they'd just fall off."
4. Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
"Down in the street there is violence!" The song's lyrics refer to the 1981 Brixton riot, the title referring to Electric Avenue, a market street in the Brixton area of London. Things between police and residents of Brixton were already tense, but an incident in which police officers were accused of ignoring a black youth as he lay bleeding in the street from a stab wound proved to be the tipping point for a day of violence that came to be known as Bloody Saturday. "Workin' so hard like a soldier / Can't afford a thing on TV / Deep in my heart I abhor ya / Can't get food for them kids / Good God!"
5. Rock the Casbah - The Clash
The song gives a fabulist (a fable in song or verse) account of a ban on rock music by the king being defied by the population, who proceed to "rock the casbah." The king orders jet fighters to bomb any people in violation of the ban. The pilots ignore the orders, and instead play rock music on their cockpit radios. It was inspired by the ban on Western music in Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
6. Semicharmed Life - Third Eye Blind
The super fast vocal delivery makes the lyrics somewhat difficult to understand, but if you listen closely you will notice some seriously depressing stuff. This song is aobu the downfall caused by drug abuse, specifically crystal meth, and the depravity that comes with it. "The sky was gold, it was rose / I was taking sips of it through my nose / And I wish I could get back there, someplace back there / Smiling at the pictures you would take / Doing crystal meth will lift you up until you break."
1. Jump - Van Halen
The synth line was written around 1981 by Eddie Van Halen but it was refused by the other members of the band. In 1983, producer Ted Templeman asked Roth to take a listen to the unused song idea. Roth listened repeatedly to the song. To come up with a lyric for it, he remembered seeing a television news report the night before about a man who was threatening to commit suicide by jumping off of a high building. Roth thought that one of the onlookers of such a scene would probably shout "go ahead and jump". Roth bounced this suggestion off of Hostler who agreed it was good. Instead of being about a threatened suicide, the words were written as an invitation to love.
2. Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People
"Pumped Up Kicks" became the group's breakthrough hit and was one of the most popular songs of 2011. The lyrics are written from the perspective of a troubled and delusional youth with homicidal thoughts. The lines in the chorus warn potential victims to "outrun my gun" and that they "better run, better run, faster than my bullet."
3. Some Nights - Fun
An indie pop song with elements of power pop and afrobeat while the lyrics depict the protagonist having an existential crisis. There is a common theme of decrying fame and the notoriety it brings. "Some nights I stay up cashing in my bad luck / Some nights I call it a draw / Some nights I wish that my lips could build a castle / Some nights I wish they'd just fall off."
4. Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
"Down in the street there is violence!" The song's lyrics refer to the 1981 Brixton riot, the title referring to Electric Avenue, a market street in the Brixton area of London. Things between police and residents of Brixton were already tense, but an incident in which police officers were accused of ignoring a black youth as he lay bleeding in the street from a stab wound proved to be the tipping point for a day of violence that came to be known as Bloody Saturday. "Workin' so hard like a soldier / Can't afford a thing on TV / Deep in my heart I abhor ya / Can't get food for them kids / Good God!"
5. Rock the Casbah - The Clash
The song gives a fabulist (a fable in song or verse) account of a ban on rock music by the king being defied by the population, who proceed to "rock the casbah." The king orders jet fighters to bomb any people in violation of the ban. The pilots ignore the orders, and instead play rock music on their cockpit radios. It was inspired by the ban on Western music in Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
6. Semicharmed Life - Third Eye Blind
The super fast vocal delivery makes the lyrics somewhat difficult to understand, but if you listen closely you will notice some seriously depressing stuff. This song is aobu the downfall caused by drug abuse, specifically crystal meth, and the depravity that comes with it. "The sky was gold, it was rose / I was taking sips of it through my nose / And I wish I could get back there, someplace back there / Smiling at the pictures you would take / Doing crystal meth will lift you up until you break."
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