Fell in Love with a Girl

Today's song came as a surprise.  I heard the melody going, but had no idea what the song was!

And I was surprised how easy it was to find.  I had this lyric going in my head "I'm in love with a girl" and I could distinctly hear the part where the instruments stop in the song and the singer says "don't consider it cheating now."

So, I did a Google search:  I'm in love with a girl song

Hundreds of results came up and I thought I was going to have to call my brother and try to sing the melody without lyrics to discover the song.  I knew it was a grungy sounding song with heavy electric guitar and when I saw Google give me "Fell in love with a girl" by The White Stripes as a choice, I knew it was the song going in my head.

The song is only 2 minutes long and wow does it rock.  The video is great too- Lego animated over a decade before the Lego movie was released.  Check it out:

As is my tradition, whenever I blog about a song that isn't currently part of my collection, I make an effort to buy the album on which is comes and add it.  This helps broaden my catalog of music and makes me listen to music I otherwise wouldn't consider.  Currently I'm listening to the album "White Blood Cells" which I purchased and downloaded today.  It's not normally the kind of music I enjoy, but I'm glad to have it the same.  Such a strange hobby I have.

How "Fell in Love with a Girl" managed its way into my head this morning is exactly why I enjoy writing this blog.  I don't know if I heard it on the radio, in a movie, on a commercial.  The White Stripes a popular band, especially in circles of people who are much cooler than me.  The band itself consists of Meg and Jack White, a husband and wife duo (him on the guitar, her on the drums) and they've had critical success in their songwriting.  This song in particular has had widespread popularity and acclaim.  In 2007, Rolling Stone magazine listed it as one one of the forty songs that changed the world.

My 7 year old daughter, Lucy, has a few thoughts she would like to add. Brace yourselves:

All they used was legos.It was awesome when I saw  it.It,s so cool how they made the boy playing the guitar and the girl playing the drums! I was amazed.

Thank you, Lucy, for your wise input.

Thank you, reader, for reading.  Have a good week.