30 Day Song Challenge

Day 5: A song that makes you cry...and my picks are...

By the way, these are songs that CAN make me cry. It doesn't nessesarily mean I cry every time I hear them, but if I were an actress and needed to cry for a scene, I could use these songs and cry without a problem.



Goodbye, Spice Girls.
I don't really understand this video but I just think this is a really pretty song all the way around. I love the Spice Girls and regret them breaking up. I didn't realize I liked them so much until they were pretty much split. They have some really great songs and their voices just melt together. They can build a wall of sound like the gates of heaven are opening...much like the background vocals in this song. The sound they create in their ballads can make me cry easily. I could have also chosen their song, Viva Forever.



This song is one of my favorites, like top 3 of Annie Lennox and if you know me, you know I'm a HUGE fan of hers. I have all of her albums...every last one. This song speaks to me so much. As a song writer, there's always those songs you hear and you think...Wow that's on the tip of my tongue, i could have written this song. You just "get it" so easily. This is one of those songs for me. It was already so familiar to me. I love the lyrics in the versus, especially the 2nd verse. It makes me think of so much. This song can make me cry real easy.

There are a lot of songs I could have chosen for this one because anything can make me cry. It doesn't have to be thought provoking or sad. I cry when something is really exciting to me too, like on a really good solo that blows my mind. I can also cry if the song is nastalgic to me, just a song I grew up on. It doesn't have to be emotional or have any of those qualities. I'd say that songs that remind me of people or siruations and songs that are really exciting or make me shake my head in amazement at the music or talent will most likely do it. I vetoed any movie song choices because those are so much easier to choose. It's easy to cry watching a movie, especially if there's a song. For instance, I could have made ALL my choices from musicals (like "Friendly Star" in Summer Stcok) but again, that's too easy.

What kind of songs make you cry?

Honorable mention: The Wizard and I, Wicked. If We Hold On Together, Diana Ross. Lost, Michael Buble. Better in Time, Leona Lewis. Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer, Stevie Wonder.