NewYearsDayProject | a song a day blog

YouTuber Todd in the Shadows makes a yearly list of what he deems as the worst songs of the year, and last year Justin Bieber bookended the list with "Lonely" at #10 and "Yummy" at #1. Todd's frank commentary on the 27-year-old singer seemed a bit mean to put in my blog, and I realized that there was a reason Todd is in the shadows. There are several reasons why I chose "Friends" as the song of the day. First, the Tyler Ward version was stuck in my head, and it wasn't until I watch Ward's video on YouTube that I realized that the song was a Bieber song. When I watched the Bieber music video, the snow in the video made me think that it made the song fit in on my December playlist. I realized that the Bieber version wasn't half bad. It was melodic and the electronic production was a kind of song I would listen to, although I'd still prefer the Tyler Ward cover (see below). LIKE I GOT ULTERIOR MOTIVES. Regardless of whether it's the T

Some music critics have called this the song of the 21st century. If you're sick of this song, I don't blame you. If you're from Canada, you got an extra dose of Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe," when it charted in October of 2011 and hit number 1 in February, several weeks before it charted in America. It was the song of the summer of 2012, spending 9 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100, and it was rated as the second most popular song of the year, behind Gotye and Kimbra's "Somebody That I Used to Know." We have to thank Justin Bieber for tweeting about this song when he heard it while touring in Canada. Personally, I do get sick of songs, but I have never gotten sick of this catchy disco-infused track. It's  maybe my guiltiest of pleasures. Whenever I hear it, it makes my day, and it would have been my song of the day when I heard my students singing the song in class, but another ear-worm, " Careless Whisper " beat it out. The mo