The song is 43 years old. Why can't I get it out of my head?
In case you didn't know this, I have a weak mind. I know...shocking, right? It's something to which I'll admit any day of the week. So when someone requested a song yesterday afternoon I shouldn't have been surprised that for the rest of the day I had Toto's “Rosanna” running through my mind on constant repeat.
Some days it's not easy being me.
I suppose I should grateful it was “Rosanna” and not some, say, Barry Manilow song stuck in my head, but that's not the point. I liked the song when it first came out, and I've enjoyed listening to it over the years, but it's now looping over and over and over and over in my head, I'm not so sure. And the weird thing is that it's not the same part of the song, which is now it usually happens. Nope; with “Rosanna” it's sometimes the interplay of synths and horns in the middle of the song, sometimes it's the guitar solo during the extended playout, and on occasion, it's even a one measure organ riff in the middle of the first and second verse.
That's how much it's been stuck in my head. I woke up in the middle of the night last night with a 43-year old organ note stuck in my head. To quote my friend Deanna, “just shoot me now”!
Except, of course, I don't want you to do that. While it would probably get that particular song out of my head, it would also remove ALL songs from my head, and I'm pretty sure I'm not quite ready for that yet.
It's my fault it's stuck in my head, after all. I had to answer the phone and play a request yesterday. But, you know, that's kind of what I do, so it's not like I have anyone else to blame but myself. That one Instant Request was all that it took; since then, it's taken up residence in my head and it won't leave.
Lucky me, right? And now, let's conduct an experiment. Want it stuck in YOUR head?
No, that's okay. You can thank me later.
8-)
(And as an aside, here's a cool trivia fact about the video. Two of the dancers are Patrick Swayze and Cynthia Rhodes, working together for the first time five years before they were a couple in “Dirty Dancing”. See? My obsession was good for something, right?)
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