Music and Me

As I lay here listening to 80's music, instead of sleeping like I should, I realize that my view on relationships may well have been shaped by the music of my youth.  Here are some examples:

1) Girl's Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper

2) What's Love Got To Do With It - Tina Turner

3) Love Bites - Def Leopard

4) Shot Through The Heart (and you're to blame) - Bon Jovi

5) Karma Chameleon - Culture Club

6) Another One Bites the Dust - Queen

7) Don't You Want Me - Human League

8) Cold Hearted - Paula Abdul

9) She Bop - Cyndi Lauper

10) I Wanna Have Some Fun  - Samantha Fox

These are all songs I listened to during the end of elementary and through middle school...my formative years, if you will.  I think middle school is when you form your life theories, and high school is where you test them. All my theories on love and relationships were shaped by the music I listened to! It didn't help that all my girlfriends hit the competitive stage of boys and dating right around the time I was barely deciding that boys were good for more than just hanging out with.  So, while they were running around dating and making their "learning to have relationship" mistakes, I was watching them and listening to music and deciding that I was much better on my own.

And let's face it.  For every song of "love gone right" there are probably twice as many songs of "love gone wrong."  And for every song that bemoans being alone, there are so many more that encourage us to love ourselves enough to be on our own.  After all, isn' that "The Greatest Love of All?"

Also, I should point out that I probably shouldn't be allowed to blog at 5am.