What song makes you happy?
So there are a couple of songs at the moment that put me in a good mood no matter what - one is Number 1 by Goldfrapp and the other is the Jacque Lu Cont remix of The Killer's Mr Brightside. I think particularly the second one, because there's this bit near the end where great big pounding bunches of bass just appear from nowhere and it actually has some kind of weird euphoric biochemical response because every time I nearly feel like crying. But you know like happy crying. Like >sobsob<
Anyway, this misses the point a bit, because what I actually wanted to talk about was how I came to write this post. There's a 'Question of the Day' box on my Vox homepage and is framed with the question, "What song puts you in a happy mood no matter what?" So the first time I answered it, I just put in the name of the song. I then go and look at my Vox page and it's just got a completely non-post there. Just a question and an answer. I hadn't realised that I was supposed to be more explanatory around it. I suppose that could be a consequence of the question, but hey.
Here's how I'd do it. I'd ask questions that have simple one line answers that actually might be correlatable against some kind of external database. So I'd answer the happy song question, and then I'd click continue and it would go and try and find the song against something like Yahoo Audio Searche's APIs (not flogging Yahoo here particularly - just can't think of another good one for songs). Then I'd ask people if it was the song they'd mentioned and suggest that they talk a bit about how they feel about said song. Then I'd post that to their sites, and in the background you'd have a complete database of interesting responses to songs - so you could start joining people together who liked the same songs and all kinds of neat things. That's what I'd do.
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I think would be wonderful... just a kind of spinning data katamari that acrewed around your answer.
my happy song is still probably 'ladyflash' by The Go! Team
You precisely captured what I have been feeling about that Killers remix for weeks! I'm so glad somebody else agrees. :)
the ewan pearson remix of Ride a White Horse is ecstastic
For me its 'Milkshake' by Kelis. Damnz yeah! Or 'Utopia' by Goldfrapp. La la la la la, warm it up.