It usually takes some incentive for me to go ahead and buy a full album these days. Itunes has made it so easy to just sign on and grab the tracks I want and then I do not have a hard drive full of songs that I will never listen to. Remember the days when you bought a whole CD for one or two songs, or worse yet a cassette that you played one song over and over again til your player ended up eating the cassette. Been there done that.
I had a couple of incentives for downloading all of Teenage Dream by Katy Perry. It had a couple of songs already released that I was familiar with (California Gurls and Teenage Dream) and then Firework came out. That was incentive enough, but then Apple pushed me off the fence by sending me an offer to buy the album during a promotion for $6.99. I said, what the heck, and I threw caution to the wind and plunked down my 7 bucks and bought the album. Good move on my part.
I loaded it up and took it to work started working my way through it. I soon had about 7 out of the 12 tracks that I really liked. Not a bad return on my investment. Her most recent release (ET) did not initially make that cut, but it has grown on me so make it 8 of 12. My big favorites though were TGIF..Last Friday Night (which she just released) and Not Like the Movies (a pretty nice ballad that may hit the charts but maybe not). The one that really got my attention was The One That Got Away.
I am not sure why exactly my this one snagged my brain the way it did, but I really like this tune. It could be the story of lost love/opportunity. I think though, more so, it is the chorus. The music and chord progression there just flows over some part of my musical senses, and stays with me. I wish I could explain that a bit more, but it's like trying to explain I like red instead of green. I just do, and it just does.
I do hope she releases it eventually. If not, it will remain on my own private radio station in my head. See what you think.
The One That Got Away
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