{"id":5911,"date":"2014-12-11T01:54:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T05:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=5911"},"modified":"2014-12-11T01:54:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T05:54:29","slug":"happy-days-during-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2014\/12\/11\/happy-days-during-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Days During Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iframewidth=420height=315src=\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zFVxX3RtyhQframeborder=0allowfullscreen\/iframe\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zFVxX3RtyhQ\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the midst of finals taking and paper writing (and staying up till 4 am and crying), there is always been one thing I can count on.<\/p>\n<p>Music.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve talked a LOT about music over my time here as a blogger, and though I&#8217;m not proud of the fact that my interests are sometimes less diverse than I&#8217;d like them to be, it just goes to show that one thing you can always count on me for is that <i>I love music<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>But tonight, for some odd reason, an atypical song popped into my head.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I say atypical because it&#8217;s just not the typical song I go to when I&#8217;m stressed or I have a 40 page portfolio due tomorrow. Usually I&#8217;d be playing some variation of Dustin O&#8217;Hallaran&#8217;s music, maybe if I&#8217;m in the mood for lyrics I&#8217;ll turn on Magnolia by Young &amp; Sick (which, Spotify informed me today, was my most played song in 2014. Uh, yay?).<\/p>\n<p>But instead, this song came up. I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s because it sounds kind of like a Christmas song, with its soaring, gentle, but major melodies (major, as in the music key, not as in major, like major grade).<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m glad it did. I will have to admit, I hold a fondness for musicals and the type of songs you find in them. I love a good rock opera (The Toxic Avenger anyone?), but nothing can beat me belting out SOMEBODY BEING IN LOOOOOOOOOVE WITH ME in the shower when I&#8217;m sure that no one&#8217;s around. I love a good show tune.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why I&#8217;m embarrassed that I found this lovely duet through Glee. But hey, the journey doesn&#8217;t matter, right? Just the ending? Right? Yeah that&#8217;s what the Hobbit was about.<\/p>\n<p>So, even though this is shorter than my typical post (and later&#8230;oops&#8230;.shhhhhh it&#8217;s not midnight I don&#8217;t have a portfolio due tomorrow yeah I&#8217;m almost done), here it is &#8211; a fantastic duet with two amazing actresses and singers, two of the greatest of the 20th century, singing a song that will hopefully get you through your finals.<\/p>\n<p><i>Forget your troubles<br \/>\nHappy days<br \/>\nCome on get happy<br \/>\nAre here again<br \/>\nYou better chase all your cares away<br \/>\nThe skies above are clear again<br \/>\nShout hallelujah<br \/>\nSo lets sing a song<br \/>\nCome on get happy<br \/>\nOf cheer again<br \/>\nGet ready for the judgement day<br \/>\nHappy days are here again<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of finals taking and paper writing (and staying up till 4 am and crying), there is always been one thing I can count on. Music. I&#8217;ve talked a LOT about music over my time here as a blogger, and though I&#8217;m not proud of the fact that my interests are sometimes less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[694,634,486,693,192],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5911"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5920,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911\/revisions\/5920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}