To test my own commitment to this thing, and to show you guys I'm serious about posting regularly, I have decided to challenge myself. Okay, so it was a suggestion from a reader, but I like it. So, for the next 30 days, I'll be doing the 30 day song challenge. As my friend mentioned, we're getting to the busiest time of the semester, so if I can do this now, I can do it anytime. I'm excited about this challenge. So we begin with Day 1: My Favorite Song.
I get a little frustrated when I try to look for this song on my Zune, because All Time Low is not a band I listen to much, so I can always remember the song title but sometimes I forget the artist.
Freshman year I annoyed the heck out of my roommate with this one (she deserved it a little). For whatever reason, I could never listen to it just once. In fact, I'm listening to it on repeat as I write this.
It took me a while to think of a "favorite song" because that's just really tough. If you held me at gunpoint and asked me to tell you my favorite book, you'd probably end up shooting me if I didn't just spontaneously combust from the pressure. Music is pretty much the same way, but at the same time it isn't. I get into moods sometimes, and they determine my "favorite song right now." Unfortunately right now I don't have one of those. At one point, I thought "I Knew I Loved You" by Savage Garden would be my favorite song forever, but I got tired of it like all my other "right now" favorites. I could listen to it today and enjoy it, but not quite like I used to. If you had asked me in August, I might have said my favorite song was "The Cave" by Mumford and Sons, but I'm harboring a grudge against it right now due to overplaying.
"Remembering Sunday" is one of those I did go through a phase with (unfortunately for my freshman roommate), but that didn't lose its power over me after time. I still find it incredibly beautiful and romantic. The way the character tirelessly pursues his love interest ("and even though she doesn't believe in love, he's determined to call her bluff") really pulls at my heartstrings--as a hopeless romantic, these things just get to me. I also like the sad ending. To me, there is something beautiful about sad songs.
Speaking of sad endings, does anybody have an opinion on what the end means? I was told by a friend in high school that one of the band members said the girl just left for some faraway place, and that her being above the clouds is just her in an airplane. I don't buy it; sounds like suicide to me.
The other thing I really like about the song is the mixture of male and female vocals. It's not exactly a duet, but I love a song that uses both male and female voices. It's a great effect. That and overlapping lyrics, when two parts are singing different lyrics at once (not really used in this song) are my favorite.
"Remembering Sunday" by All Time Low (I remembered it!) may not be my absolute favorite song, but that's difficult to define for anyone, and this one definitely stands out, for me, among many others. I can listen to it any time and still be moved.
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