Adventures of a Shockingly Average 30-Something

The year may be 2014, but Taylor Swift fans are ready to party like it's 1989. Officially, there are just about 6 and a half hours until the release of Taylor Swift's fifth studio album, 1989.  However, several people who pre-ordered the album from Target (including myself) received their copy a day or so early.  I got my copy in the mail yesterday morning, and the tears (of joy, of course!) were so close to falling.  This is the selfie I took with the album when I opened the package it was in and saw it for the first time yesterday morning -- just ignore my messy "I just woke up 5 five minutes ago" hair! It probably comes to a shock as no one when I say I'm a huge fan of Taylor.  When I was fifteen, in 2006, my mom stopped at Walmart and bought me a copy of Taylor Swift's first album, and I quickly fell in love with absolutely everything about that sixteen-year-old country cutie.  It didn't take long for anything Taylor sang to top my ...

Taylor Swift dropped another song from her high anticipated fifth studio album, 1989, last night, causing quite a frenzy among her fans (because it's Taylor Swift and everything  she does causes a frenzy among her fanbase).  Welcome to New York is the third song we've heard from 1989, which hits store shelves in just under a week (only 6 more days! Oh my god!), and is just as great and catchy as Shake It Off and Out of the Woods.  All three songs have seen the top spot on the iTunes charts. The question might be raised - why I am writing about Welcome To New York, when I didn't write about Shake It Off or Out of the Woods?  Because it's not that Welcome To New York isn't more important than the previous two songs, but it is .  Shake It Off got people talking about the album and about Taylor's new style of music.  Shake It Off introduced people to what pop!Taylor would sound like and got people excited .  Out of the Woods is the song that Tayl...

I know you know the song "Jessie's Girl" by Rick Springfield.  It's an 80's song, but everyone knows it.  It was originally released in 1981 (and re-released in 1999 as an acoustic version on Springfield's "Karma" album) and instantly shot to the top spot on Billboard's hot 100, where it remained for only two weeks.  The song remains popular today, and was somewhat recently on one of the Now That's What I Call The 80's cds. On the complete off chance that you don't know the song, it's an upbeat pop song about a guy longing for a woman just like his best friend's girl.  Actually, he wants his best friend's girl, not just someone like her.  But he also gets that she is with his best friend and respects that enough to try to find "a woman like that" instead of trying to be a jerk and steal his best friend's girl. Now, we need to talk about something.  We need to talk about Mary Lambert's cover of the son...