30 Day Music Challenge: Day 30 - Your Favorite Song From This Time Last Year

This song was EVERYTHING this time last year. It never got old for some reason. In fact, I'm listening to it right now and getting that old feeling back!! I LOVE CHRIS BROWN!!



So that concludes my 30 day music challenge and I actually finished one!!! So proud of myself. How are you guys doing on your reading challenges? I've been paying attention....I know some of you are behind lol.

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30 Day Music Challenge: Day 29 - A Song From Your Childhood

Now THIS is the R. Kelly that I grew to love. I can honestly say that being a child of the 80's and growing up in the 90's, we truly had the LAST of the greatest music. I used to listen to this song all the time. This was back in the day when I didn't have CDs and had to record it off the radio. *sighs* The good old days, lol.....

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30 Day Music Challenge: Day 28 - A Song That Makes You Feel Guilty

Now this song makes me feel just a tad guilty. I am miles away from home and sometimes I don't even call. No one but my brother calls me....so sometimes I only feel the need to make sure I talk to him on regular basis. This song is all about families...relationships that I really don't have.

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30 Day Music Challenge: Day 27 - A Song That You Wish You Could Play

This is a song that I tried to master for years in tryouts for different honor bands when I was younger. My fingers DO NOT move this fast, lol.

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30 Day Music Challenge: Day 26 - A Song That You Can Play On An Instrument

I started playing the clarinet when I was 10 years old. I learned to play other instruments, but the clarinet has always been my principal instrument. When I was a music education major, this piece was my jury/performance piece. It was a real challenge to learn because college was the first time that I ever had to learn to play with an accompaniment. I actually miss those days....

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30 Day Music Challenge: Day 24 - A Song That You Want Played At Your Funeral

This is totally contrary to my stance right now....which is that I do not want to have a funeral. I have a real aversion to them at this point. Cremate me, have a nice memorial, and go to KFC. But in all seriousness, if I had to choose a song to play it would be this one.

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30 Day Music Challenge: Day 23 - A Song That You Want To Play At Your Wedding

My Latest Greatest Inspiration - Teddy Pendergrass

I know this sounds very "The Wood" of me to want this song played at my wedding, lol. The first time that I ever remember hearing this song was when I heard first saw this movie. However, this song has special meaning for me and Boo Thang. This song was playing while we were expressing the deepest of our real feelings for each other for the very first time. It was the moment that we decided to look at our own happiness and let our respective toxic relationships go and get together. Every time I hear it, I smile.

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30 Day Music Challenge: Day 22 - A Song That You Listen To When You're Sad

Take Me (I'm Yours) - Johnny Gill

This is one of those "baby, baby, please...I've done wrong, I'm sorry" songs. The emotion in it just makes me cry when I hear it. Johnny meant that shit!! This song definitely lets me stay inside my feelings.

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30 Day Music Challenge: Day 21 - A Song You Listen To When You're Happy

Good Life - Kanye West f. T-Pain

How can you not cheer up when you hear this song?! It always puts me in a good place mentally. I may not be living my ultimate version of the good life, but I have life. That in itself is a happy day.

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30 Day Music Challenge: Day 20 - A Song You Listen To When You're Angry

Caught Out There - Kelis

This song allows me to express so much anger and pain!! Just the screams and anguish. It does a body good sometimes. Mostly it allows me to tire myself so that I'm too tired to be angry. Where is Kelis?

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30 Day Music Challenge: Day 19 - A Song From Your Favorite Album

Talking In His Sleep - Toni Braxton

If I had a favorite album of all time, I would have to say it was Toni Braxton's Secrets. I dub this album my favorite because no matter how old I am, I can pop this CD in and jam out like it was.....well 1996 when it came out lol. It is hard to believe that I was 13 when this CD came out. THIS ALBUM IS 15 YEARS OLD!!!  How can you not love it? Unbreak My Heart, How Could An Angel Break My Heart.....magic!!!

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30 Day Music Challenge: Day 18 - A Song You Wish You Heard On The Radio

Hear My Call - Jill Scott

This song would have me reflecting every day. This song does something to me every time I hear it. It makes me want to stop, be still and just pray. Crazy enough, it really isn't a gospel song in the traditional sense. The video just embodies everything that the song is. It's just her, asking for a little help. Every now and again we all need that.

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30 Day Music Challenge: Day 17 - A Song You Often Hear On The Radio

4 AM - Melanie Fiona

This song plays A LOT. I'm glad she is getting a lot of radio play because I love her as an artist but I don't think that she gets the recognition that she deserves. At all. When is the next single coming out? I would hate to put her in the Kelly Rowland category....

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30 Day Music Challenge: Day 16 - A Song You Used To Love But Now Hate

Motivation - Kelly Rowland

Will she go away already? Or will the radio at least stop playing it? This song is months old at this point. If I hear it again, I might scream.

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30 Day Music Challenge: Day 15 - A Song That Describes You

Diva - Beyonce

This song has been my unofficial theme song from the moment I bought I Am...Sasha Fierce and gave it a listen. Whenever I'm feeling myself and am getting ready, I cue it up to put me in the optimum frame of mind. My Twitter name has diva in it. My blog title has diva in it. I consider myself to be a leading lady in the way that I carry myself and the way I am taking charge of my life.

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30 Day Music Challenge: Day 14 - A Song No One Would Expect You To Love

Electric Feel - MGMT

As far as music goes, I listen to a little bit of everything. HOWEVER, as a black person, people tend to expect me to only love R&B and Hip Hop. People who know most of my music preferences expect me to only listen to neo-soul. I really do love this song though. Something about it just gets under my skin and makes me groove. I heard this song for the very first time while my guy was playing NBA 2K10. It was on the soundtrack of the game and I loved it.

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30 Day Music Challenge: Day 13 - A Song That Is A Guilty Pleasure

Round Of Applause - Waka Flocka Flame

Sooo....everybody knows that I can't stand garbage rap. *in my Phaedra Parks voice* When I say garbage rap, I mean Gucci Mane, Waka Flocka, Lil' Boosie, [insert your up and coming Southern rapper here]. So when this song came out....AND I liked it....AND it was Waka Flocka, I had to do some soul searching. The saving grace has to be the verse by Drake (at least that's what I tell folks when they catch me listening to it). It is definitely a guilty pleasure. My feelings for him as a person have not changed.

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30 Day Music Challenge: Day 12 - A Song From A Band You Hate

Dog Days Are Over - Florence + The Machine

WHY DO PEOPLE LIKE THIS?!?! I have listened to this pale, weird looking lady yodel her way through all my award shows and mess up tribute performances for artists that I really love. Who likes this voice? I'm all down for the British invasion of artists. I love them all.....EXCEPT THEM.

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30 Day Music Challenge: Day 11 - A Song From Your Favorite Band

Jodeci - My Heart Belongs To U

There aren't many bands out there right now. Well....they aren't many that I particularly care for so I had to go old school with this one. I was a Jodeci fanatic back in the 90's. I STILL have their first two albums on cassette tapes, lol. Their last CD, The Show, The After Party, and The Hotel, was my very first CD. My parents bought it and my first CD player for my 13th birthday. (Oops....I'm telling my age.) When they saw the album cover, they threatened to take it back!! This is my favorite song of all time from them.

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30 Day Music Challenge: Day 10 - A Song That Makes You Fall Asleep

Garden Of Love - Raheem DeVaughn

If I need music to soothe me to sleep, a Raheem DeVaughn album is definitely the way to go. Something about this song is so soothing to me that I fall asleep before the song is over. It is sensual and sexual. So if I use at other special times....I'm still poised to go to bed extra happy!

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