Freshman year, me, my roommate and two of our best friends had a Friday and Saturday night ritual in the dorm. We'd all get home from school/class or just wake up from our third nap of the day (Courtney) around five and grab some dinner at Frank's. After a delicious meal where our dirty dishes magically disappeared and became clean (how I miss those days), it was off to get ready to go out, which meant (insert trumpet fanfare here) SHOWER TIME! We lived in Kronshage and each bathroom had four shower stalls and one exceedingly loud CD player. We'd hop in the showers and blare the latest shower mix CD we made and turn up the music loud enough so we couldn't hear Courtney's tone-deaf, one-note singing. There is a definite art to the "Going out shower mix CD" and over the two years we lived in the dorms we perfected it. So here are my rules for the perfect mix CD in this scenario:
1. Everyone must know all of the words to all of the songs (i.e. REM's "It's the End of the World" works for NO ONE).
2. There must be at least one raunchy song that would be embarrassing to sing in front of your parental units (i.e. Tenacious D's F*** Her Gently)
3. The CD must contain no less than one old school Britney Spears (pre-shaving her head) or *NSYNC song that not only do you know the lyrics to, you can pretty much re-enact the entire music video frame by frame (you all know that you can mentally replay the whole "Oops, I Did it Again" video in your mind--it's okay, there's a lot of us).
4. There must be at least one song that one member of your group HATES but the rest of you love and due to the fact that it's on the middle of the track list and she has shampoo in her hair, she can't escape it (for us it was "Bad Day" by Daniel Powter--my roommate Kristen hated it to the core and we all loved how much she hated it).
5. Last but certainly not least, it should contain at least one rap song that sounds absolutely ridiculous coming out of your mouths and that you have to go on urbandictionary.com to understand half of the words that you're saying (this list of possibilities is astounding).
That's it--follow the rules and you'll not only have a great time getting ready to go out, but you'll also embarrass yourselves and annoy your dormmates--all in all, a great success.
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That's really funny! I guess that would make for an interesting and fun mix. The whole thing about flow though... probably doesn't do much flowing! I guess maybe it could though...
I lived two doors away from Amy and I remember those mixed CDs very well. Fond memories!!! The only problem with mixed CDs of frequent use such as showering mixes is that you get sick of the songs after a month. By then, it's time for a new mixture of 16 songs, which can be difficult at times.
If you are giving a mixed CD to a person such as myself, who listens to their favorite song of the week over and over again you may want to do them a favor and NOT put it on there. Ironic, I know.
Hahaha, Amy, I absolutely LOVE the rules! I think those are some basic guidelines for any girls' mixed cd!
Not a bad mix, id leave the some of the old pop stuff out though.
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