7 Songs Meme

More memery, this time courteous of a tag from the amazing Ms. Glennia Campbell over at The Silent I. What it is, is simply a list of 7 songs you currently dig. On a day to day basis I listen to a lot of hip-hop and R&B with some NPR and a bunch of kid friendly songs thrown in so it's no surprise that this is my list:

1) "O Mio Bambino Carro" from the opera "Gianni Schicchi" by Puccini. More specifically, the version that's on the HBO Classical Baby Music Show DVD. The Sweet Pea likes that DVD and so do I for that matter. They don't dumb down the music, it sounds like they recorded with an orchestra rather than a single xylophone like some baby music series I could name. He knows this song as "the cow song" since on the DVD it's sung by an animated cow, natch. For those of you who think perhaps I shouldn't let my baby listen to a song about a love sick child telling her father that she would jump into a river and drown herself if she doesn't get her man; my baby doesn't understand Italian! It just sounds pretty.

2) "Wait for You" - Eliot Yamin. Evie and I like this one, sentimental, sappy, and trite, what more can you ask for from a slow jam?

3) That "Bubbly" song by Colby Caillat 'cause it makes me smile.

4) "Stronger" by Kanye West, mainly because of the video as I'm an Akira fan and they obviously borrowed a lot of elements from that movie.

5) "The Way I Are" by Timbaland and Keri Hilson because it's fun and upbeat.

6) "Over the Rainbow" by me, because it's one of the few songs the Sweet Pea wants me to sing at night these days that will put him to sleep. The version I channel is Ella Fitzgerald's. The Sweet Pea calls it "sowayha sowayha!" (Those who think I overuse exclamation marks have obviously never met my children.)

7) "Get it Shawty" - Young Lloyd...everyone needs a guilty pleasure. ^_-

Hmm, I'm so behind on what's currently out. If you read this, tag, you're it!