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Time to cheer up

Since we finally had a bit of time to pursue trivial pursuits, we dropped in at KBox and now I have a new karaoke favourite. Jay Chou's 'Chrysanthemum Flower Bed' has usurped 'Moonlight in the City' (Mavis Hee), ha ha.

I read in Mind Your Body sometime back about a study on different genres of music. It turned out that people were happiest listening to country music. I don't doubt that I myself would prefer country to, say, heavy metal but I don't particularly like county. I was trying very hard to think of country songs and realised that I don't know any modern ones. I could only think of stuff like 'Take Me Home, Country Road', ha ha.

Anyway, I think it was in another issue of Mind Your Body that I read that songs make people happy or something like that. I'm sure that must be true. Music of various sorts has certainly helped me in many ways, many times.

I'll just end here with something suitable for the time of the year, The Priests singing O Holy Night.

Comments

makeupmag said…
I'm not sure if she's country but I like Carrie Underwood's version of How Great Thou Art.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhvaDJTUmrU
:) Happy New Year!
Anonymous said…
Oh yes, there are indeed many country-style Christian songs.

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