I Write The Songs...
So I know a girl who knows Adam Levine of Maroon 5. She is also friends with the girl he wrote "Sunday Morning" about. I know, sigh, so romantic. And, totally hot. (That's why it's playing on my blog. Just for now...apparently, music on the blog isn't so popular....)
This leads me to wonder.. how many of you have ever been the inspiration for a song? CM has written a few songs about me. The most recent being: "She's a blog, blog, bloggin' machine. Watch her get down, watch her get down." or "My girl wants to bloggy all the time bloggy all the time, bloggy all the time." Cute. He is always cracking himself up.
Anyway, what about you? Any songs, poems, novels, sculptures, movies (and not the kind you have to disguise and hide from your kids) or paintings inspired by you?
If not, what song do you wish had been written about you? For me it's Billy Joel's, "Just the Way You Are."
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No songs written about me. BUT...
A few years ago I did have a Bare Minerals eye shadow named after me. Seriously. For real. It was called "Starlet Leigh Anne" and it was part of their fall glamour collection that was featured on QVC, Sephora, etc. Leslie Blodgett (the Bare Escentuals wonder woman) called me at home, not once, but twice to discuss this with me. And then there I was--my name at least--big as day on QVC, worn on the lids of fabulous women the world over.
Oh yes. I should totally post about my one-time make-up fame.
p.s. George Strait doesn't know this, but "Run" was really written by Scott for me. In my dream world, at least. And we also claim John Mayer's "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room" as one that he totally wrote while thinking of us.
I'm just sayin'.
I did go out with a guitarist in a band though, way back in the olden days. They always used to dedicate The Troggs ' I Can't Control Myself'. to me, whenever they sang it.
Okay, I was skinny in those days and I did have long, black hair and my 'slacks were low and my hips were showing'.
However, that wasn't the reason they made it *MY* song though. The first two words in that song were 'Oh No' and everytime I tripped over, dropped something or had some other type of mishap, you'd hear The Troggs bellowing 'Oh No' over the airwaves.
I swear, that song was stalking me!!
Thanks for the idea to store photos on line. I think I'm going to do that!
I worked at a performing arts center in New Mexico for a while. Each month we would showcase local artists' talent in the lobby. One month the artist asked me if I would sit for a painting. I know he painted at least two from the pictures he took. We got one of them.
And if you really want a piece of artwork inspired by you or your kids go to Turn Your Head. They make awesome "pirolettes" that capture your profile. My daughter is the little girl on the "place order" page. I'll be getting another one for my second girl when she turns three.
I know what song I wish WASN'T written with my name in it...can you guess which one it is??
There are SO many songs that I wish were about me. Too many to list.
I'm not sure what I wish WAS written about me. Something incredibly passionate. One of those disgustingly romantic, die without your love type songs...I can dream, can't I?
We broke up but remained friends for years afterwards. Somewhere along the line I lost those poems and it actually made me cry. They were really good!
Oh and that old "Sherry Baby" song was on the radio when my parents were on the way to the hospital to have me... that's how they came up with my name.
As far as a song I'd like to be about me...maybe "You're the Inspiration" by Chicago since my husband and I have been known to harmonize LOUDLY to it in the car. And I would like to think that I am an inspiration and an encourager to him instead of a nagging wife!
My hubby says Garth Brooks' She's Every Woman is a song that should've been written for me!
For Crying Out Loud by Meatloaf
I'm not even sure that the song was written for a woman...and let's face it, it is SO cheesy.
BUT, I want a man to feel that passionately about me...LOVE IT!
I wish "Now and Forever" by Richard Marx was written for me (my hubby did try to claim it).
Song lyrics have sort of been my philosophies of life, if you will.
It's not Easy Being Green (sesame street album then covered by Van Morrison) being the first.
Part of the Plan by Dan Fogelberg the second
She's the One by Bruce (the boss) Springstein the third.
the list goes on and on....
Have you ever really loved a woman - Bryan Adams
The Lady in Red - Chris De Burgh
My Best Friend - Queen
(for my husband and I, that's OUR song.)
Ya, that list makes me happy!
:-)
Also, Apple Joos answer really made me laugh!
:-)
Actually, my ex-boyfriend turned just friend--the one with the band--wrote a song just for me back in highschool. It was called "I think I'm falling". Then I found out he sang to all the girls and said it was written for them! You'd think with all the artists and musicians I've dated there'd be SOMETHING....
I have never really stopped and thought about this before. Now that I have-the perfect song popped into my little overcrowded head.
"I Saw God Today" by George Strait. I do love country music, but this song is stopping and noticing all of our blssings. Very good reminder to us all-when life is the craziest-stop and count your blessings!!
I have never really stopped and thought about this before. Now that I have-the perfect song popped into my little overcrowded head.
"I Saw God Today" by George Strait. I do love country music, but this song is stopping and noticing all of our blssings. Very good reminder to us all-when life is the craziest-stop and count your blessings!!
Sigh.
Maybe in another life.
Great minds think alike.
ps Why don't you ever show any pictures of yourself??
Tupac wrote two poems inspired by me included in his book The Rose that Grew from Concrete. I tried to find a link to the poems but was unsuccessful. They are dedicated to me and apparently one of the "The Power of a Smile" actual was made into a song by Bones Thugs and Harmony in 2005. I had no idea guess that tells you how much I am up on rap music.
(I walked in with my new beau - who would become my fantastic husband- maybe that prompted the angry version.)
I would like to think that Van Morrison's "Someone Like You" was inspired by me. I just love that song! (*Heavy Sigh*)
Her boss, made up a song about her...of course he stole the music from another popular tune...Pretty Woman.
It goes something like this;
Pretty meat wrapper
Wrapping up the meat
Pretty meat wrapper
She is so sweet!
Well you get the idea.
It sounds a little like sexual harrassment doesn't it.
Now, the only song I can think of is Tim McGraw's Best Friend. Maybe that is because my hubby told me during our first few months of dating that this song made him think about me. And at that time we were 1500 miles apart.
I always though "She's every woman" by Garth Brooks should have been written about me.
I love what music can do, it can help people express things they can't do with words.