Woo Hoo!

So another long hiatus ensues. Its been almost three months I posted anything here, and there is no good reason for it. Anyway, how does it matter? Plenty of things worth writing about have happened, lots of unfinished drafts are gathering dust on the back end, but for now, something totally mundane to break the dry spell. Not really in the mood, or inspired enough to write something profound or insightful!

So for the past few months, my ringtone has been this unreleased track recorded by Ke$ha, called Woohoo!, which I can't even remember when and where did I come across. As the song title, and the artist responsible for it suggests, it is the ultimate upbeat, party anthem. It really is a wonder why it was never released. Would have been a sure shot hit in the clubs and on the dance charts. Check it out here. 

I do remember that when I came across this song, I read somewhere that although not released by her officially, it was loaned to some other band and was heavily sampled by them in their own track. Which now after googling, I can tell you, is Windows Down by Big Time Rush. Anyway, so a few days back, while watching TV, I was just thinking about this song that has been my ringtone for ages now, and was wondering how would that other song sound like. And coincidentally, as I landed on Vh1 while channel surfing, imagine my surprise to hear this loud, grunge-alt song, oddly titled "Song 2" by British alternative band Blur, and it had the same hook and beats as that of Woohoo!

So I assumed this must be the track that sampled Woohoo. Today I finally remembered and managed to download and hear Blur's track, and then google it. To my surprise, this song came out way back in 1997, and it was in fact Ke$ha who had heavily sampled Song 2 on Woohoo! and basically turn this alt song that was supposed to parody American grunge rock, but ironically became a hit amongst the same fan group, into a uptempo party track! (man that was a long sentence!) I pretty much like both the songs, and in fact, since I heard Woohoo! before Song 2, it gives a weird perspective of a dance pop track being converted into a grunge, alt song, though it is the other way round. Either way, the purpose of writing this was to introduce anyone who by chance lands on this blog page to these two pretty cool songs. And to break the rut!

On a side note, I have observed this a million times - quite often when I am thinking about something for a few days now and then, and usually have a missing link, or an unanswered question related to it, then something happens or I come across some information or facts etc inadvertently, which provides that missing link, or answers that question etc, without me actively seeking it. Or it could be just me thinking up some imaginary scenario in my random chain of thoughts someday, and within a few days, something related to that scenario actually happening. For example, almost a decade ago while in high school, and newly introduced to cable TV, my life pretty much revolved around two things - FRIENDS (the TV show, too lazy to put in the dots) and Shania Twain. So one day while obssessing over these two things simultaneously, I just had this idea that how cool it would be if Shania actually guest starred on FRIENDS. And lo! in just a few days after that, the episode of FRIENDS which aired, had Phoebe mentioning Shania Twain! I was flabbergasted that what would be the probability of that happening within the same week as me getting that whimsy. I remember blurting it out to my sister in excitement right then and there, and her shooting me down and dismissing me as a blubbering lunatic (as I am sure many of you reading this right now would also be doing!). Sorry, but that's the best example of this phenomenon I could come up with right now. I have no idea if the last few sentences make any sense to you, but if that thing that I am trying to talk about happens to others as well, they'll get it, I presume. Or maybe as I always suspected, I do have actual, untapped, raw psychic powers that I just haven't learned how to control yet. If you have experienced it too, let me know in the comments, and dismiss the notion of psychic powers in my head!