30 Day Music Challenge – Day 12
By Jeannette | July 13, 2017
I love today’s prompt, this has made me smile all the way through writing this post.
It’s “A Song That You Love From 2011” and you might think “hmmm, J’s an 80’s gal, what will she find to pick?”
Easy-peasy!
Jessie J’s Price Tag makes me smile every time I hear it because D’s class sang it at their Proms performance one year.
It was brilliant to see a group of SN children doing the “everybody look to the left” – very pronounced left move – and then “everybody look to the right” – ditto – with the “b-bling, b-bling” hand actions and all. Really good fun.
If I play Price Tag at home, D will initially have a little moan (I know, we are at the teen stage now) and then she’ll (usually) smile and sing along.
Lovely, happy memories associated with this song 😊
“Seems like everybody’s got a price
I wonder how they sleep at night
When the sale comes first
And the truth comes second
Just stop for a minute and smile
Why is everybody so serious
Acting so damn mysterious
Got shades on your eyes
And your heels so high that you can’t even have a good time
Everybody look to their left
Everybody look to their right
Can you feel that, yeah
We’re paying with love tonight
It’s not about the money money money
We don’t need your money money money
We just wanna make the world dance
Forget about the price tag
Ain’t about the uh cha-ching cha-ching
Ain’t about the yeah b-bling b-bling
Wanna make the world dance
Forget about the price tag”
Other songs I liked from 2011 are “Born This Way” by Lady Gaga and “Someone Like You” by Adele.
Not totally 80’s focussed eh?
Here’s the top 20 best selling singles of 2011, what would be your favourite? (Info from officialcharts.com)
“Top 20 Singles Of 2011
01 SOMEONE LIKE YOU – ADELE 1,242,000
02 MOVES LIKE JAGGER – MAROON 5 FT CHRISTINA AGUILERA 1,043,000
03 PARTY ROCK ANTHEM – LMFAO FT LAUREN BENNETT AND GOONROCK 995,000
04 PRICE TAG – JESSIE J FT BOB 981,000
05 WE FOUND LOVE – RIHANNA FT CALVIN HARRIS 902,000
06 GIVE ME EVERYTHING – PITBULL FT NE-YO, AFROJACK AND NAYER 866,000
07 GRENADE – BRUNO MARS 852,000
08 THE A TEAM – ED SHEERAN 801,000
09 ROLLING IN THE DEEP – ADELE 798,000
10 ON THE FLOOR – JENNIFER LOPEZ FT PITBULL 784,000
11 JAR OF HEARTS – CHRISTINA PERRI 669,000
12 S&M – RIHANNA 643,000
13 WHEREVER YOU ARE – MILITARY WIVES AND GARETH MALONE 631,000
14 BORN THIS WAY – LADY GAGA 625,000
15 THE LAZY SONG – BRUNO MARS 618,000
16 BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE – CHRIS BROWN FT BENNY BENASSI 588,000
17 CHANGED THE WAY YOU KISS ME – EXAMPLE 582,000
18 I NEED A DOLLAR – ALOE BLACC 576,000
19 SWEAT – SNOOP DOGG 558,000
20 WHAT MAKES YOU BEAUTIFUL – ONE DIRECTION 540,000”
8 Comments
Amy @ The Smallest Of Things on 14th July 2017 at 10:47 am.
This song reminds me of wireless festival a few years ago as Jessie J performed it! So lovely to hear they all joined in – what a lovely memories ox
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Candace on 14th July 2017 at 2:15 pm.
Their performance sounds amazing fun to be part of and also watch. Without the back story this would have been an unusual choice
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Mums Space on 14th July 2017 at 7:29 pm.
You cant beat jessie J ! Good choice for them all to sing too 🙂
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EssexKate on 14th July 2017 at 8:32 pm.
I’m impressed there are actually a few songs I know in the top singles list, I don’t remember hearing the Jessie J one so you are definitely more in touch than me!
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Suzanne Stainforth on 14th July 2017 at 8:55 pm.
Out of these Adele would be my favourite as she has such a fantastically powerful voice.
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Mummy Cat on 15th July 2017 at 7:53 am.
2011 feels like an age away now! not the biggest jessie j fan but I love her song Domino!
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Jasmin N on 15th July 2017 at 11:55 am.
2011! Gosh I feel old. There are some songs that I still listen to and it feels like they got out few years ago instead of six 😀
London Mumma on 18th July 2017 at 4:42 am.
I love a bit of Jessie J and this song is a classic. I do hope she will eventually make a comeback.
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