From a Dancing Queen to a Motomami

Hello awesome Hivers and Silver Bloggers

This month's #BOM is again an invitation to travel down memory lane, but this time with the music we associate with the different decades of our lives.

When @fionasfavourites suggested the theme, I thought, this is going to be fun and somewhat easy to write. And in my brain, the memories and songs began to flow. But it hasn't been so easy to choose a song for each decade.

I was born in the early 70s, so join me on this virtual trip back in time.

In the 70s

My song of the 70s was easy to pick and can only be Dancing Queen by Abba. My sister and I would spend hours singing Abba songs with toy microphones. Sometimes, we would dress up for the show, and I used to wear a black hair wig from a costume my mum had. We truly were two dancing queens by that time.

In the 80s

In the 80s, when I was just a pre-teenager, the Menudo phenomenon started in Latin America. And it would be unthinkable not to include a Menudo song in this memory lane. It was hard to find a girl in her early teens at that time who didn't have a crush on one of the guys from that first Menudo group. Of course, I was also "madly in love" with René. Tough, I never went to the extreme of fainting at a live performance or getting hysterical like some of my friends. But forty years later, when I get together with my friends from school, and there is dancing involved, a Menudo song comes up. My favorite is Claridad. And we laugh and dance the choreographies as we used to do in the past.

But to stick to one song in the 80s is too hard. I loved Queen and still do. Also, Police, Dire Straits, and Cyndi Lauper to name a few. At parties, we danced to Wilfrido Vargas' merengues, and my favorite was El Jardinero.

But when I started going to parties with boys, Footloose was released and it was a rage at the time.

By the end of the 80s, I was already driving, and I was in college. I used to go to the beach with my friends on the weekends. A lot of music played in the car player at that time, but there was one in particular that always was present on those days of sand, sun, and sea. And it was Cuando Calienta el Sol. An old song in its original version, but that became trendy again with Luis Miguel's version.

In the 90s

In the 90s, I remember listening to a lot of Alanis Morrisette and Oasis around the time I met my husband. And Wonderwall reminds me of that time.

Then there's a song I remember that became trendy in the months when I lived in France as an exchange student on a master's degree. Freed from desire by Gala used to play in the discos in the last few weeks I spent in France.

In the 2000s

The 2000s were years of change, mostly good. I got married and had my son. Of course, in life not everything is joy, and I also had my share of sad and tough moments in those years. But the good ones were many more. And in general, the 2000s were happy times that started for me as a Beautiful Day, like the U2 song released in 2000, which is my all-time favorite song of the band.

In the 2010s

Choosing an emblematic song in my life from this decade was a bit hard. I think I kept listening to the songs from before. But a song from the 2010s, I like a lot is We are young by Fun. And whenever it was playing on the radio, in those days and I was in traffic coming home from work, I would play it at full volume and used to sing it out loud.

In the 2020s

And to close, some recent memories that bring me a song. At the beginning of this year, when classes started after lifting some of Covid's restrictions, I used to take my son to school in the mornings, and he used to play the song Saoko. One of the singles from Rosalia's album Motomami.

I don't listen to reggaeton at all. But Rosalia is a unique genre in herself with those mixes of urban rhythms. And Saoko became the song that accompanied those come and go on those mornings. Which I already feel nostalgic about, since my son graduated from high school, and is going to college soon. And in his phone contacts, I have been renamed as the Motomami, hehe.

This is a bit longer than I intended. But it's my post out of competition for the Silver Bloggers Community #BOM this month about Musical Memories.

If you want to join you have until next Thursday, August, 18 at midnight UTC. You can check instructions and prizes at Blog of the Month - New theme for Thursday 18 August.

Thank you very much for reading!