The Mom Weekly Volume 150: June 23, 2026
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Notes:
Once again, younger me comes through with a good reflection.
Note that at the time I wrote this, Spotify didn’t exist, but now people can make Spotify playlists (or having Spotify make them for you, which I don’t tend to love) even faster than making them in iTunes.
Remember how much I love you,
Mom
Superchick Therapy (From the Vault, 2008)
Several months ago, I picked up a greatest hits CD of a relatively obscure British band from the 1980s that I used to love in my cool college days (and I had put on many “party tapes” that I painstakingly made on an actual tape recorder of different songs I liked from different artists. How amazing to have Itunes and to make a playlist as long as you want in about 2 minutes).
I finally loaded it only iTunes and my iPod, and on a walk/jog several weeks ago I decided to go back in time and listen to it. I put on the first song, that had a pretty peppy beat, because I thought that would help me “jog” instead of walk. And then I realized the words were just so icky. That song was about something not good at all. Next song–also a really bad theme. I kept “fwd”ing through the songs until I got to the end, and couldn’t find a single one that had any positive spin.
I hate to be too depressing or ‘dramatique” about it, but it was just brokenness from beginning to end. And I thought to myself–now why did I ever like this band? Why was I filling up my head with all these depressing sad themes, even with a good beat and great musicians? I haven’t put the name of the band on here because some of the songs are still going through my head, and really bringing me down, and I don’t want that to happen to others of “my generation.” Sort of like humming the theme song from “Gilligan’s Island” and then everyone is singing it for weeks. Oops, sorry.
So I turned it off (and deleted it from iTunes just as soon as I got home), and turned up some good old Superchick. I tell Sir that I have been doing Superchick therapy. I can’t think of one of their songs that is not awesome, uplifting in a really clever way, and helps me jog a little faster. Plus, talk about great beats and great music.
And for me there is a song for every occasion, even in my stage of life (the bandmates are 20somethings, from what I can tell). I so, so wish there had been Superchick for the sorry 18-19 year old I was back in the day.
Feeling like you’ve made a lot of mistakes lately, need to get to confession and get on with life? Listen to “Get Up.”
“If I get up I might fall back down again, so let’s get up, come on …
If I get up I might fall back down again, we get up anyway”
Having a bad hair/life day? Listen to “One and Lonely.”
Sometimes I have good days and it’s good to be me,
Sometimes I get the best of insecurity
And it’s quite alright to be the one and only
But today I feel like the one and lonely..”
Frustrated with your spouse? (not that this ever happens at our house :-), um, yeah it does) Listen to “Na Na” (and be sure to get to the end; not just the lines):
“We’ve never had this conversation, or should I be calling it a condemnation, ’cause you’re not listening to me…Na, na, na,…
or
I feel like the teacher from “Charlie Brown,” ’cause all you hear is that “wa, wa” sound….”
Need inspiration to let go of the past or of what others say about you? Try “Let it Be”
“So what do I do with this backpack full of bricks, sticks and stones and words that stuck to me like ticks?
Let it go, let it be, brick by brick we can be free of all the words we say til we were our own enemies,
Let it go, let it be, brick by brick we can believe in the person God intended us to be..Let it be.”
Already my lovely children can sing many of the words to these songs, and I am proud to be indoctrinating them in a positive outlook on life, even amid struggles.
I want my children humming these songs and words and bringing them to mind when they’re older. And I want to be singing them, too, when I’m older.
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