12. Always Be My Baby - Mariah Carey

There is a simple reason for choosing this song today;

Doot doot doot dum,
doot doot doot doot doot doot da dum.

And that's why I love this song.

My song selections for this blog/place/thing is never as structured as I would like. I view it as a very organic process, either I actually have a song in my head that won't leave (see 10. Caught Up - Usher), or I write an entry and then try to find a song that kinda links to it; be it a line from the song, the song title itself, or just random tiny thing that, in my mind, forms a nexus of connectivity to the entry (see 8. Honey And The Moon - Joseph Arthur and my discussion of the O.C.). In essence, I like to think that I'm a lot smarter and wittier than I actually am.

But sometimes it all falls into place.

Like this one. Now this song is relatively old, sometime during my primary school/early high school years (which is relatively old for me). And as luck or fate or whatever would have it, I found myself singing along to it in my friend's car on the way back from our weekend excursion to Philip Island (thanks for the lift El).

Frightening to say, I remembered most of words. What makes it even stranger is that I'm sure i didn't know the words to this song even way back then. Its amazing what you can remember about songs. I can remember the "doot doot doot dum" bit, but I'm pretty sure that everyone can. I also remember that my favourite part was the bridge right in the middle.

The thing about Mariah and me is that, to paraphrase the Regurgitators, I like her old stuff better than her new stuff. But when I think about it, its not the songs themselves that I'm fond of, its the memories that have woven themselves around it. For instance, when I hear 'Hero", it reminds me of my final day at primary school in year 6 when as a year level we performed the song to our parents. I guess its those things that brings songs close to our hearts, well that and any song that has "doot doot doot dum" in it.