200. <-Wow, what an impressive number to the left of this title!

Remember how in a recent blog post, I talked about songs that make you happy?  Well I was just thinking today, about what to blog about, and what came to mind was something sort of connected to that idea.  Except this time, I am blogging about songs that you can relate to.

Relating to, as in, connecting.  (Wow, that cleared things up.)  You don't have to have every detail in agreement with the lyrics.  I mean, bad breakups pretty much have the same feelings involved.  Hurt, betrayal, all that fun stuff.  (Not.)

A song I can relate to is I Hate Mario Kart Wii by Alex Day.  I'll post the lyrics below.  This is a really good song, I think.  Alex Day (known as Nerimon on youtube) is really cool!  I think his best friend is a bit better known, Charlie, aka Charlieissocoollike.  But this is a song by Alex, and again, one that I relate to.

I feel so confident right now

As my friends all ask me how they throw an item or utilize the drift

My character of choice is Yoshi

He's good off-road but mostly I play him cos he's cute, I'll admit

The race starts … and I stalled!

I stalled the car again

I held A down a bit too early

And all my mates are laughing as they drive right past me

And at this point I remember why I hate Mario Kart Wii

And now I'm stuck in 12th place

I'm gonna lose this race; trailing in Donkey Kong's tyre tracks

So I get a power-up

I don't expect too much, but oh my god, Bullet Bill – now I'm back!

In first place in no time

And my mates can't see why Nintendo would make a game that's so unfair

They're feeling pretty angry, but I'm just princess peachy

I'm winning so I don't really care

But someone gets a blue shell!

And I crash

The kart flips over again

Why don't they put a wall there!?

Nothing I can do but watch it roll into the sea

And at this point I remember why I hate Mario Kart Wii

I'm still in the lead

But they're catching up to me

I'll get a power-up and I'll be fine

Another banana skin

Upside-down boxes wearing thin

I think I had more fun when I was behind

This is the only game I've played

Where winning just feels lame

And losing is where all the fun takes place

And there are no red shells for me

All I have is apathy for this never-ending, three-lap funless race

The race ends – AND I'M SECOND!

I lost the race again

How did he get Invincibility!?

Fucking Waluigi stole my victory

And at this point I remember why I hate Mario Kart Wii

Everybody sing!

So the similarities to myself?

  - I always choose Yoshi to race with!
  - Stalling always really annoys to me.
  - I love Mario Kart Wii, but things like being in 12th place and stalling remind me how much it can really annoy me.
  -  I am often in 12th place, for things like falling off, stalling, getting stuck against walls (it happens.), and just pure unluck.  So I am always hoping for the bullet.  You don't even have to steer!  And then you manage to get back to 1st place.  From 12th.
  - I think everybody can relate to blue shells.  There is NOTHING you can do about them!!
  - When people catch up with you when you are in 1st place it's really worrying.  You spend the whole race worrying about people passing you, and now it's happening!!  It's totally nerve wracking.
-  Being in 1st place all you ever get are bananas, or red boxes, or sometimes the occasional green shell.  The shell is completely pointless, if you are far ahead, by the way.  When you are in last place you get way better stuff.  If you are in 3rd or something, at least you get red shells pretty often.
  - Waluigi kind of annoys me.  Donkey Kong annoys me even more though.  And King Boo always seems really angry to me.  (I don't mind Bowser.  I play as him in the battles to seem intimidating.)

So that is the song I "relate" to.  I actually had quite a lot in common with it, I think.  (Minus the F bomb.  I wouldn't curse at Waluigi.  At least not out loud... even then it would be "darn you."  Really mean, I am.) You probably weren't expecting a song about Mario Kart, but that's called a surprise!  And maybe now you might believe me when I call myself a nerd.  (But calling myself a nerd would be complimenting myself.  Aha-see what I did there?  Slipped in how I think calling someone a nerd isn't a bad thing!)

Hm, do I have any other songs I relate to?  I am sure there are many out there.  But one from my past was "Mr. Brightside" by the Killers.  (Awesome band, also.)  I listened to that song a lot when I liked a guy that liked another girl.  Of course the song is about a guy that likes another girl, but it was the same thing really.  When I was feeling down about him not liking me, I would listen to someone else being down about not being liked.  Depressing = depressing.  Why I wouldn't listen to a song to cheer me up, I don't know.

The question for you is, what's a song you can/have related to?