Housework

Not the Don Henley song of the same title, this is a tale of a man whose cheating ways are uncovered after his woman finds lipstick and wine stains on his clothes. The cut was penned by regular Underwood collaborators Hillary Lindsey and Ashley Gorley as well as Sam Hunt’s main songwriting wingman Zach Crowell.

The track was produced by Jay Joyce (Little Big Town, Eric Church), one of six he helmed for Storyteller. It was the first time that Underwood had worked with Joyce, who crafted an edgier sound than the country star’s previous material. “I want to grow, and I want to change, and I want my music to reflect that,” Underwood said, “and I felt like I just needed things to switch up a little bit in order to achieve that.”

Underwood is singing in character in this one. She married the professional hockey player Mike Fisher in 2010 but has plenty of previous relationships on which to draw from when she needs to get into the mind of a woman with a deceitful beau.

The Killers’ Mr Brightside is about Brandon Flowers’ jealousy and paranoia when he walked into a bar and found his girlfriend with another man. What better track to listen to while beating the old Persians.
This music video was made in 2004 for the song’s re-release, and is based on the film Moulin Rouge!

Mr Brightside was ranked the 48th best song of the 21st century by Rolling Stone.

This song brings back some great memories of my early days as a “re-singled” person. I used to keep Monday nights as my house-cleaning night and after dropping Jay off at his father’s place by 18:30, I would return home and go all out to get my little townhouse cleaned from top to bottom. Being a MONDAY, after work, after Jay’s therapy and after generally a looooong weekend of having a difficult little boy that required a lot of attention constantly, it took some serious grit to tackle the housework.
I find there’s nothing like some great music to make the work go faster. So I would pump the tunes and do some “dancing with the mop and broom” in between. What turned out to be my favourite CD for this was Shakira’s Oral Fixation album – perfect tempo, hips that didn’t lie etc. etc.
This song was the last on the album, and by the time I got to this point, it was normally close to finishing up the chores. The final reward for finishing my chores on a Monday night was a chance to dance this last song away and have enough time to tune in to SABC for Desperate Housewives, which became a guilty, fun pleasure.

Sorry guys. My song might be a bit late.

I’m busy with chores.

Now this song I’m playing is one of the songs that this artist plays at one of his own events. This guy is absolutely amazing. Most of you will know him.

Now a funny story is Liezel and I both love this music and this artist. We found this live-recorded show and loved it so much! So I downloaded an app where we could connect 2 Bluetooth headphones at the same time, and the one night in her apartment, we had a “silent disco” and jammed to this mix. The funny part came when the nurse came out and wondered what in the world was going on! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Sorry ……. just got to drill 4 more small holes ….. almost done