So something about me that some of you who might not know me in person should know about me is I LOVE MUSIC! I love making music, I love listening to music, I love writing music and I love being around it at all times. I feel like life should be lived along with a soundtrack! So as I travel the world I would like to give you a playlist of things I have been rocking out to the past three months on the race (Just in case you’re curious) I would also like to see if it’s the same thing you guys are jamming to back at home…. I also believe that a song can take you back in time and I know when I hear these songs I will always go back to this season in my life…
So month one, we spent in Haiti… They LOVE some Celine Dion in Haiti. I don’t get it personally but to each their own… Everyone also knows the “we are the world” song and they sing it ALL the time (Which is pretty cool because the remake was for them and when you get to sing it there it makes the song mean so much more!) So yeah, celine dion and we are the world was what I got to jam out to in Haiti.
In the DR, there is MUSIC EVERYWHERE! Bars and clubs are everywhere you turn and sometimes people just have huge speakers outside their houses blasting music as they just chill… And when I say blasting… I mean BLASTING. Music is a huge deal there but I also heard a lot of the “Americano Visa” song. Basically the words say I want an american girlfriend to get a visa. Men sung it to every girl they saw on my squad daily so music that month was a bit irritating at times. Also I totally jammed out to Ricky Martin, Inrequie, and some Jeremy. Hahaha… It was a good month…
And now this month after being in civilization it’s been nice. While I was in Ireland I went out to a club one night with some people on my squad and we got to dance all night to actual music you could understand the lyrics to. I’m becoming a bit of a techno fan… Lol… I think Europe has that effect on people though… And now that we’re in the Czech we still get the same vibe…
But anyway, I just wanted to give you a list of some songs that have deff made an impact on my trip so far so check them out! Maybe even make a “Britt’s world race playlist” for your ipod….
The titanic song- Celine Dion (I haven’t heard it in years and now I hear it all the time)
A whole new world- Aladin (Because we sing it all the time… it’s actually Lucas’ specialty but we sing it while we work, play, and just relax)
Mighty to save (Spanish Version) – Hillsong… (Because when you hear it you realize how small the world is and how we might speak different languages but we serve the same God)
One Love- David Guetta (Shout out to Nicholi in Haiti)
That’s the way it is- Celine Dion (this also has some major significance with P-squad’s training camp and Jonathan Moore)
waka Waka- Shakira (This song means A LOT to world racers because the lyrics are crazy insane and pick us up ESP WHEN WE THINK OF AFRICA!!! I first heard this song in Haiti and a villiage kid’s house and this girl did the dance and we all freaked out! Since then, I have learned the dance myself and constantly rock it out even more then the single ladies dance!)
I like it- Enrique Iglesias (Because it actually is the first song from him that I really have liked… And I have many memories dancing to it in the street because when it was played I actually knew what they were saying!)
Ringa Ringa – Alka Yagnik (Just because it’s amazing and deff makes you feel like you’re not in America anymore)
The chicken dance- We literally did this in a ladies house in the DR!
Jai Ho!!!- The slumdog version (AHHH It just brings me joy… Esp when I do the dance to it
We no speak Americano – Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP (Because I totally have heard that song at every club, bus ride, and everything in the past few days… And it happens to be the story of my life…)
Airplanes- BOB (Because I do just that on a reg basis)
Not afriad – Eminem
The only exception- Paramore (Because my squad mate played it every day in the DR because she was learning how to play guitar with that song)
If I die young- The band perry (Because it was one of the last songs I heard right before leaving the US… And me and some of the girls sung it going into Dublin and we just almost cried because that’s how we feel on the race)
My big green tracktor – (We southerners sing it and represent where we are from)
Best day- Taylor Swift (Because I got to sing it to my family at my last show before leaving and Aubrie loves for me to play it and sing it to her so it’s been sung a lot these past few months)
Intamacy – Jonathan David Helser (The awakening… Need I say more???)
ANYTHING REGINA SPEKTOR (We blast it all the time in every country for different reasons but it’s just good music for any moment)
Just wanted to share some music with you all….
Britt
