Does anyone else ever end up with a mashup between “Last Christmas” by Wham! and “Lucky” by Britney Spears in your head? It happens to me almost every time I get into Christmas music (yes, this means that I’m already getting into the Christmas music mood). As with any song, “Last Christmas” will get stuck in my head, kind of repeating casually as I go about my business, even thinking about other things. Whatever I do, though, the song plays like background music, just inside my head. Eventually, I become aware of the fact that I’ve been going back and forth between “Last Christmas” and “Lucky”, and then totally crack up inside at how utterly different the two songs’ topics, years, genres, and artists are.
If you think I’m just nuts here, or even if you just are interested, give it a try. Here’s how the words work out the switch:
Last Christmas, I gave you my heart,
and the very next day, you gave it away.
This year, to save me from tears,
I’ll give it to someone special…..
(dumm dumm dumm)
She’s so lucky. She’s a star.
But she crie-crie-cries with her lonely heart,
thinking, “If there’s nothing missing in my life,
then [why do these tears come at night?”]
the very next day, you gave it away.
This year, to save me from tears,
I’ll give it to someone special….
And then the whole thing repeats. Notice that the brackets part is how that line would continue in the song. I left it, because, occasionally, my head finishes out that line, too. Usually, though, it has a sort of fading overlap, like how what DJs do or the original settings in iTunes did, having the Wham! song come in at that exact spot as the new main line.
Fun, huh? (Well, I like it, anyway, so that works for me.) 🙂
*We don’t really have a single word for this in English, so I used a translation of the German term Ohrwurm, the word used to reference a song that gets stuck in one’s ear/head.
Post-a-day 2018
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