I have so many happy associations with Beyonce's song "Crazy in Love" (track 1 on Dangerously in Love). They just keep building up, to the point where I can now play this song on repeat and work out to it for 30 minutes at a time, three times a week, and never get tired.
I just keep getting more charged.
All my happy memories replay, too, every time the song starts over. I run through them all again. (Literally!)
That's because this song's ridiculous, over-the-top intro always makes me think of my brother's wedding. Michael and Hanh entered their reception to this song, with Damon pumping up the crowd and really hyping up their intro—doing the world's greatest job as wedding emcee ever.
All my femme fatale cousins were rolling at my table, just from Damon ending in the phrase, "Give it up, for Michael and HANHHHHHH!!!"
Damon's stepmother laughed on one side of the room, and Damon's mom rolled her eyes on another, and toward the center, my aunts gushed to my mother, "Why, Damon's a perfect emcee!"
Then my brother and Hanh came dancing in. Rockin'. Lookin' sweet. Gettin' down. While I ran up and took pictures.
Damon and I had suggested this song to Michael and Hanh the night before for exactly this purpose, which also makes me happy. We had a final details meeting where we learned my mom had been worrying Damon wouldn't make as "fun" and "loud" an emcee as a hired professional.
We showed her!!
She raved about what a good job Damon did, after.
But we stole this idea from Derek and Polly, who entered their reception to the same song two months earlier. So then I always think about how crazy Derek and Polly are, and how they had the two crazy emcees that got 300 Asian people up, old and young, on their feet all night.
I took some awesome pictures that night.
Then I think about how I danced my @$$ off to this song at my college's ten-year reunion earlier this summer, when this song came on toward the end of that dance. I felt so happy and carefree at that point, having gone back in time with all my old friends, this song pushed me over. And people took notice, after.
Then I think about how the same thing happened again, at the SCBWI conference, toward the end of that night, too! Just this past August. The dance was winding down, this song came on, and I went nuts again!
That time I was on a stage.
By the time I've daydreamed my way through all these great parties (groovin' side to side and practically falling off my elliptical), the song starts over.
What a great song to enter a reception to. Michael and Hanh rocked their entrance. Hanh's dress looked amazing. Damon's stepmom cracked up. My cousins rolled out of their chairs! I can hear Damon's Barnum & Bailey routine now.
But we stole that idea from Derek and Polly . . .
When this song came out three years ago, I thought it was "fun at clubs."
Now I love it.
r
Actually, the first three songs make an awesome workout block. But at this point, all I need is Track 1.