I'm 32. I should, by all rights, have outgrown any crazy obsessions I used to have with "pop" music, really, and should be listening to things that are more my old-lady speed, and I guess for the most part that is true of my musical tastes. But every once in a while a ridiculous pop song comes along and I find myself, against my better judgement, falling head over heels in love with it. (That phrase never made much sense to me...aren't our heads always over our heels? Anyway...)
A few weekends ago I helped chaperon our middle and high school choirs as they participated in Relay For Life, and of course there was a DJ set-up, and there was a lot of pop music being played throughout the night. I mostly was able to ignore it because none of it sounded like anything I would waste my time with, really, but I noticed all of the girls singing along with one song, and it was a lyric i had seen all over Facebook in the week or two before, "so call me, maybe."
I was still able to ignore the tune for a bit, but then fun. covered it and I made the mistake of listening to the cover. Several times. In a row.
BUT at this point, it was still pretty much my dirty little secret. I was in the car with one of my very best friends, coming home from a Phillies game (Go Phils!!) and I played the song for her. Her response was "that is not anything I would expect you to like." True story, Tina. True story. But girl can't help it.
The Thing that really broke me of my embarrassment though, happened last night. I was at another friend's place, hanging out with the girls for girls' night, and we got to talking about music (side note, the soundtrack to the movie We Bought A Zoo is phenomenal). I admitted to the girls that there was a song that I was IN LOVE with, and that I was embarrassed about, and immediately all three of them said "CALL ME, MAYBE!!" Phew, I was not alone in this. It's easier to deal with this if I know I am not alone.
LB asked if we had seen the video, and I said that I had not (I, thankfully, was not SO in love with this song that I had looked it up on YouTube) and she said that we needed to see it. Immediately. Lucky for everyone, it is currently On Demand, so we watched it. If you know me at all, you absolutely know why the video made me love the song that much more.
Also, Carly Rae Jepsen was born in 1985, so she's closer to my age than to a typical teenie bopper, so that made me even more comfortable with my new-found obsession.
I might have spent my last 2 iTunes dollars on the single, and I may have been listening to it on repeat the entire time I have been writing this entry, but you will never really know the answer to that one...
unless you call me, maybe.
