{"id":5754,"date":"2011-04-18T11:28:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T16:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=5754"},"modified":"2014-01-21T15:18:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T15:18:22","slug":"on-the-30-day-song-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5754","title":{"rendered":"On the 30 Day Song Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

At work, some of my colleagues have done this, the Facebook 30 Day Song Challenge<\/a>. Basically, it’s a list of 30 topics, one per day, and a person taking the challenge is supposed to post a song that answers the day’s question. One coworker suggested that I should do it, so I grabbed the list of 30 questions, then off and on started answering the questions for myself, with the goal being that, once I had all thirty answers, then I would start posting them.<\/p>\n

It’s an interesting list of questions:<\/p>\n

day 01 – your favorite song
\nday 02 – your least favorite song
\nday 03 – a song that makes you happy
\nday 04 – a song that makes you sad
\nday 05 – a song that reminds you of someone
\nday 06 – a song that reminds you of somewhere
\nday 07 – a song that reminds you of a certain event
\nday 08 – a song that you know all the words to
\nday 09 – a song that you can dance to
\nday 10 – a song that makes you fall asleep
\nday 11 – a song from your favorite band
\nday 12 – a song from a band you hate
\nday 13 – a song that is a guilty pleasure
\nday 14 – a song that no one would expect you to love
\nday 15 – a song that describes you
\nday 16 – a song that you used to love but now hate
\nday 17 – a song that you hear often on the radio
\nday 18 – a song that you wish you heard on the radio
\nday 19 – a song from your favorite album
\nday 20 – a song that you listen to when you\u0092re angry
\nday 21 – a song that you listen to when you\u0092re happy
\nday 22 – a song that you listen to when you\u0092re sad
\nday 23 – a song that you want to play at your wedding
\nday 24 – a song that you want to play at your funeral
\nday 25 – a song that makes you laugh
\nday 26 – a song that you can play on an instrument
\nday 27 – a song that you wish you could play
\nday 28 – a song that makes you feel guilty
\nday 29 – a song from your childhood
\nday 30 – your favorite song at this time last year<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

About two-thirds of this was easy to answer. One third wasn’t. And I suspect that the things that had me stumped would surprise people. Those who know me would find some expected choices, but there’s also several surprises.<\/p>\n

The interesting thing for me came in looking up the songs on YouTube. By and large, music videos have passed me by. I grew up in rural America, and I didn’t have cable, so MTV and VH1 were largely unfamiliar to me. When I think of a song, I think of the tune and the lyrics, and I rarely think of a visual for it. Discovering the official videos for some of the 30 songs was an eye-opening experience. One song that I’ve always liked has an utterly baffling video.<\/p>\n

Starting today, then, I’m going to start posting the answers to these on both Facebook and Twitter, using the #30DaySong<\/a> hashtag for the latter.<\/p>\n

Then, once it’s all done, in mid-May, I’ll post the full list of thirty songs and perhaps explicate some of the thinking behind certain choices.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At work, some of my colleagues have done this, the Facebook 30 Day Song Challenge. Basically, it’s a list of 30 topics, one per day, and a person taking the challenge is supposed to post a song that answers the day’s question. One coworker suggested that I should do it, so I grabbed the listContinue reading “On the 30 Day Song Challenge”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[752,4093,4107,4098],"class_list":["post-5754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-facebook","tag-life","tag-memes","tag-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}