Listening to some old songs. What's on my list of favorites?
TONS of THINGS!!! lol.
Every period of my life has a song to it.
"Love is a battlefield" by Pat Benatar, "Borderline" by Madonna, "Love and Pride" by King, "Mountains O'things" by Tracy Chapman, "Gold" by Spandau Ballet, "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins, "A Forest" by The Cure, "Closer to Fine" by Indigo Girls, "I want your sex" by George Michael, "Troy" by Sinead O'Connor, "Manchild" and "I've got you under my skin" by Neneh Cherry, "Girl you know it's true" by Milli Vanilli (How embarrassing it must have been for them when people found out that they weren't the real singers huh. ;)) ... Anyway, my list goes on and on.

One song I didn't mention yet which is on the top of my list... "I heard it through the grapevine" by Marvin Gaye. I LOVE THAT SONG. I guess it has to do with the events that I attach to it. I got to know that song because my sister and I used to go to all the performances of one of our favorite bands here in Belgium: The Radios.
They used to do that song at all of their performances. We traveled all across Belgium by train, bus, on foot... anything as long as we got there (remember sis? Those were the days, huh?)
So one summer day, it must have been when I was about 19; I was just hanging out at a local bar with my friends from school.
They were having a karaoke night. Really a lot of fun. Everyone just did a song, and I guess I just didn't want to be any different, trying to fit in at that point of my life, you know how it goes. But anyway, that's not the point now (would become a really long entry if I'd talk to you about that.)

I noticed that "I heard it through the grapevine" was on the list too... So I chose to do that one. Most of my friends didn't even know the song, and even though this is quite an advantage, I just wanted to do it because I loved the song. It just flows, sways through the verses and chorus. You just HAVE TO love it. (Oh well I guess it's just a matter of opinion, so if you don't like it.... It's all good. lol)

So when it was up to me to sing this song in front of my friends and other people there, I obviously got a bit nervous ... excited is a more suitable word. There was no doubt in my mind I could do it. While singing it I finally knew what this one sentence was they used in the lyrics, cuz I never quite understood what they were singing there at the performances lol. "people say believe half of what you see, some say none of what you hear." Glad knew that finally.
Afterwards, the guy from the karaoke thing, took the mic back from me and said "Well there's someone who has obviously done this more often". My answer? "Nope. Only in the shower"

And that was the plain truth, cuz this was the first time I actually sang live through a mic (not counting childhood where I did a number of sing along performances and some songs in church in front of a mic.... And, come to think of it... Why did they always pick me to do that!!! lol)

Anyway I guess, you could say that this was a turning point in my life cuz I got a lot of nice compliments about my singing, from the karaoke guy, from my friends, even later that week still. You could say I got confirmation of my talent, which I already felt I had in me.... Did I really need that confirmation? ... I don't really think so, but it did help me make up my mind about what I wanted later. It's silly to wait for confirmation, and I didn't wait, but what it really did is help me believe in me when I needed to.

I guess this is enough for today.
If you got through this till the end without your head hitting the keyboard: Thank you for reading.

Love,
Marsha.