Song of the Week #1

So it may be an ambitious plan that will surely fail but I had the idea of this year doing a song of the week feature on this here blog to hypothetically go up on a Wednesday, technically I'm writing this one on Tuesday and will schedule it. I didn't want to bombard people too much, although this will end up being posts three days in a row. A good start to the year I'd say, now if only I could get around to updating my real life journal - I keep forgetting about it for enough time that my fountain pen dries up and needs swishing in water before I can use it again. Ha ha!

Anyway today's song of the week is the second song in one of my current favourite films, and the first one on the soundtrack. It is: 'Mr Blue Sky' by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO)!

This is a really complex and interesting songs in terms of lyrics and musical flow. It starts off kind of rock and roll, then you bring in some electronic stuff and then you have this random almost operatic section and it's just such a feast for the ears and I love it.

At work they get a music license for the month of December so they can play Christmas music (normally it's a silent environment) and then once everyone is back at work Boxing Day (oh yeah, where I work Christmas Day and Easter Sunday are the only two days of the entire year that we are closed) they play a random selection of pop music. A lot of it is crap, too repetitive and loud or with annoying long notes but one of the few decent ones they played is 'Mr Blue Sky', it didn't seem to come up in the rotation much though. One shift I heard multiple songs more than once yet you're lucky if 'Mr Blue Sky' plays at all.

Of course a brief mention to the awesome film it's part of: 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2'! It feels like an opening scene sort of song but it's technically not. You get an opening prequel of sorts with Peter's parents which as cute as a seen as it is it kind of takes away the guesswork later in the film. Grey the hair and add a beard and mystery dude isn't really a mystery because you've already introduced him at the beginning. I personally feel like it should have been more of a surprise, although saying that I think the actor and his role had already been revealed before the film's release so it was always out there I guess. 'Mr Blue Sky' is the opening scene for the main characters though and you get a great sequence of Baby Groot dancing around the battlefield among the other characters and it perfectly matches the group's collective personalities.

So that was 'Song of the Week #1'. I'll be back in a few days with a book review maybe and next week for 'Song of the Week #2' which is as yet undecided. I have a few in mind though and they will surely all get covered at some point.

Stef Out x