American Popular Music 1020

 Oh my gosh guys, last blog post! This is CRAZY but also so exciting ;))  So for the last week I decided to go with the oh so iconic band Nirvana, and the even more iconic song, Smells Like Teen Spirit.  Now lately I feel like some people only know this songs exists because of TikTok, I mean one time I was playing this song in my dorm and my roommate goes, " Hey this is that song off of TikTok right?", was kind of upset by that statement if I'm being honest.  Anyway lets get down to business, the song starts of kind of soft for a rock band, but 5 seconds later you get all the heavy metal that is thrown into Nirvana's mix and the song just comes alive, you can feel the beat in your bones.  Smells Like Teen Spirit reminds me of so many summer nights driving through the canyon with friends, windows down, speakers blaring and just jumping into the hidden lake, and I wouldn't want it any other way.

 This week is one of my favorite week for song choices for many different reasons, there are so many great artists and songs that we get to choose from as well as this is what my family would play all the time growing up in my house.  The song I chose for this week, is What's Love Got To Do With It by the all so famous Tina Turner.  One of my favorite lyrics and one of the most heart felt ones in the song itself I think would have to be the line that states, "Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken? Huh", for me those lyrics really stood out because sometimes you can't ever recover from a broken heart, and in extreme cases you can die from a broken heart.  I'm with my family when I'm writing this blog post and I ask my mom what the song is and who sings it, this had to be the funniest moment today for different reasons.  Within at least 15 seconds of the song my younger sister yells out," THE BEACH BOYS", so we bust out laughing because she is w...