Is it just me or have you noticed that the song Call Me Maybe absolutely exploded seemingly overnight a few weeks ago?
Now I hear it daily, but I’m not complaining. It reminds me of ‘90s pop music like Robyn’s Show Me Love, so obviously I am a fan. (If you’re also a ‘90s music lover, my ‘90s Workout Playlist may be right up your alley.)
Last week I saw a fantastic YouTube video of the Harvard baseball team “performing” the song on a road trip while one of their teammates was asleep in the back seat of a van.
Hilarious! (Best part = Minute 2:25)
My girlfriends and I used to make music videos all the time when we were in high school younger and this song would’ve been right up our alley. I’m awfully tempted to down some margaritas at a BBQ we’re attending on Saturday and resurrect the homemade music video star that has been held captive within me for far too long.
Anyway, Call Me Maybe came on at the gym this morning and Ryan and I immediately made eye contact from across the gym and started doing the moves that the guys from the above video do during the chorus of the song.
I then looked to my left and saw two other young guys doing the exact same thing! Apparently Call Me Maybe fever is in full swing. Dance, dance!
Aside from dancing, my workout included a 20 minute warm up on the elliptical before I completed Annette’s Outside Your Comfort Zone workout. This workout is quickly becoming a favorite!
Breakfast
Breakfast this morning was a lovely little breakfast sandwich that included two fried eggs, muenster cheese and jelly.
Plus coffee!
Question of the Morning
- Did you ever make homemade music videos?
Not only did my girlfriends and I make music videos, but my best friend Michaela and I also made nature videos (a la The Crocodile Hunter, complete with Australian accents) and cooking videos.
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My best friend sent me that video last week! Because I live in Boston, we both want to go to one of their games and hold up a sign that says “Call Me, Maybe?” with our phone numbers 😉 I’ll have to let you know if we have the balls to actually do it!
My sister and neighbors used to always get together and do performances/plays/videos to different songs. Our favorite was N*Sync’s Christmas CD and then we would perform for all of our parents at the neighborhood holiday Christmas party. Oh the good ol’ days.
Have a margarita (or two) for me this weekend and bust out those diva dance moves! 🙂
Ah I love it! Those Harvard boys are adorable!! I’m not ashamed to admit I’m going to the Kiss 108 Kiss Concert this weekend with my cousin, her 9 year old daughter and her daughter’s friend. I’m psyched that Carly Rae Jepsen is performing!! We’re all wearing matching neon knee socks and Glambert tee shirts (to profess our love for Adam Lambert who is also performing!) My inner 9 year old will never die!
Hahahahhahah my girl friends and I totally made a full out music video to shaggy’s “It Wasn’t Me”. We dressed one girl up like a guy and even drew facial hair on her face and acted out the whole song in my parents basement. BEST MEMORIES EVER!
Ummm yes to the music videos! My best friend and I used to also do interpretive dances to the Lion King soundtrack…I can’t hear “Circle of Life” without seeing our bizarre routine in my head, and I crack up laughing 🙂
My older cousins also dressed me up, put me in sunglasses, and made me sing Mariah Carey songs for the entire family. I love the 90’s.
I love these videos! I was a college athlete and it brings me back to many long van rides!
I was always making up dances and music videos with my friends growing up. Call Me Maybe would have for sure been something we did, right up there with songs by Aqua and New Kids on the Block. I’m currently trying to convince Josh to add this song to our wedding playlist.
Haha thanks so much for sharing. Totally bhind on the call me maybe bandwagon!
My friend and I used to dance and sing to all 4 one I swear, the beach boys. My fav sing along was my two cousins and I would sing to Hanson songs and we would each be one of the boys and only sin their lines. I got to always be Taylor…. Ahhh faint 🙂
Oh that video is hilarious!!!! I saw the girl’s response to it on Ellen yesterday. Check it out on Youtube!!
My friends and I made up music vids all the time and we were the bomb! Ha! My personal favorites were Tim McGraw’s “Dont Take the Girl” and TLC’s “waterfalls”. We were rock stars!! 🙂
HAHA. Love that video–that song is so freakin’ catchy, I can see why they busted this out 😉
My sister and I would do ‘talk shows’ and ‘news casts’ all the time. And yes, I would always pretend to sing into mics when songs like these came on….oh WAIT, I still do. HAH.
Thanks for the linkback–glad you love the workout! It’s a toughie but feels oh so good!
Just looked at the outside the comfort zone workout… 50 burpees??? Dang! That is a LOT all at once. I am impressed!
okay, okay, i only did 25 of those… 🙂
hahaaha hilarious!! I was a captain cheerleader in high school we we used to tape ourselves making up the routines to show the girls but then they always turned out to be us parading around ridiculously.
I WORKED ON CANADIAN IDOL where CARLY RAE took 3rd place in the competition and I am SO PROUD OF HER! She was super sweet and always cared about her performance and her song choice. We’re all proud of how big she has gotten
That is so funny! I used to make music videos to Britney Spears when I was 8. I grew out of that later in life and started making Barbie videos-Barbie of the Opera, Romeo and Juliet: Barbie Edition and many music videos using them. So much fun!
You and Ryan are awesome, I love that you both did that 🙂
I LOVE this video! So hilarious! And my fiance and I totally did the same thing the other day when the song came on in a store we were in. We immediately looked across the store for each other and started doing the moves! haha.
I dont know that I ever actually made “videos”, but my next door neighbor and I definitely used to choreograph many a dance to Spice Girls, BSB, and N*sync in our driveways. Sadly, I’m pretty sure I remember some of them!
I remember making tons of Spice Girls videos back in the day! I was Posh Spice, and I remember my friend’s dad videotaping us. I’d love to get a hold of those tapes!
too funny you posted this video of the baseball team! i watched it this morning in bed and was cracking up!! its really the little things in life right?
Sooo … when are you going to post these videos you made???
i wouldn’t hold your breath… 😉
I can’t imagine to see if we ever recorded anything but my best friend when I was in middle school and I created a dance routine to “Queen of the Night” by Whitney Houston. I’m laughing thinking about it now!
Oh my gosh I hear this song every single day on my way to work! This is so funny!
I love the song, I mean it’s doesn’t have much substance to it, but it’s SO catchy. Annnd anyone who’s ever waited on a call from a cute boy can totally relate 😉
ahaha, yes! my friends and I always made dance videos or videos in the car 🙂
So funny that this song is only starting to get big down in the US now. Although I’m a little sick of it now as it’s been blasted on top 40 stations here in Canada for months now, I’m happy to hear of another Canadian artist making a name for herself down south! 🙂 I remember watching Carley Rae on Canadian Idol several years ago and it’s nice to see that she’s ‘made it’ as she was a sweetheart!
Too funny. My girlfriends and I once made up a dance to one of the Backstreet Boy’s songs. We practiced for days and finally videod it and then mailed it to them. We were CONVINCED that they saw it then they’d want us to become their backup dancers and we’d go on tour with them and fall in love.
All I have to say is videos were totally made for NSync and Christina Aguilera!
Hahaha I LOVE that song!!! That’s so funny! I love how the guy winks when he comes up 😉
so funny! and hello, hotties 😉
i used to make up music videos ALL the time! backstreet boys, mandy moore, spice girls, britney spears, christina aguilera (genie in a bottle!), etc. etc. i was a total ham!
HAHA! What is it with us girls and making music videos at a young age! My best friend and I practically became famous in middle school for our rendition of “Dont Want You Back” by The Backstreet Boys 😉
my best friend in 4th grade and I would perform anything and everything by Celine Dion/Mariah Carey/The Bodyguard soundtrack. We were pretty awesome at it, although Im sure my mom was anxious for that stage to be over.
Here’s another Call Me Maybe video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97fE7ZR_Ww8
This kid made a parody of the lyrics based on Tom Brady. I saw this on the sports blog Deadspin this morning right after I read your post. I guess you are right about the fever!
Haha, I love the guy who winks, definitely my favorite.
My friends and I dressed up in 80’s clothing my senior year of high school and did a music video to Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. It was a good time and I still can’t figure out how we were able to come up with such awesome 80’s outfits. When we graduated one of my friends (who filmed a good part of high school) made us all DVD’s of everything, complete with the music video!
Next man I meet I swear I’m going to go up to him and say “Hey I just met you, and this is crazy- but here’s my number…call me maybe”
I’ll let you know how it goes.
DO IT! i’d give you MY number.
Oh my gosh, Show Me Love used to be my FAVORITE!!! My friends and I had far too many made up dances to Spice Girls, All Saints, and Dream songs…yet I still can remember all the words to them. 🙂
I read this post a few hours ago and this song is still stuck in my head… I had to come back and tell you! haha! I kinda love it… 😀
UMMM I was just totally weirded out because I was humming Call Me Maybe in my head as I came across your post in my reader and I was like “wait. what!?!?!” LOL
Haha I read your blog but never commented and felt I had to on this one haha. That video is HILARIOUS. And me and my best girlfriends almost always made videos whenever we would get together! We had several cooking shows, commercials, rap videos and me and my sister made a special one to “sexy and I know it” sporting our fabulous matching onesies we got each other for Christmas : ) so much fun! And they always make me smile when I watch them years later.
thanks so much for commenting, sara!
I have now been singing this song all morning! Thanks, Julie!
Totally embarrassing to admit but in high school we made tons of music videos. We have quite a few to Shania Twain songs and every time they come on the radio I shudder. If those videos ever leaked out to my friends I would die.
Have you heard about the new craze “Jepsen-ing”?? It’s when you text a random phone number “Hey I just met you…and this is crazy…but here’s my #…so call me maybe?” hahaha so random! Not sure if anyone does it, I just heard about it on the radio and cracked up!
I saw that video last week too, hilarious!! So funny that those two other guys were doing it at the gym too 🙂
Heres a whole tumblr dedicated to these videos!
http://carlycallme.tumblr.com/
Julie, I was just on Annette’s website, Fitness Perks, and found some really great workouts on there. So glad you mentioned her. Are there any other great fitness blogs that you recommend where you get workout ideas?
Thanks!
Oh gosh – my friends and I made weird videos all the time! Dances, songs, talk shows, commercials, etc. We did a 20/20 spoof and it was called 20/21. We were so cool. 🙂
hahahaha, this is awesome. j & i just had a good laugh..thank you 😉
Awesome awesome video!
And now I can’t stop watching these.
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I am so sorry to hear about your sister and the grief you and your family share. I used to work with your Mom many years ago at the VAMC-Kansas City-Bld#2. I will keep you all in my prayers. Keep up the good work.
I had never heard of this song two weeks ago, but then I took a spin class at the undergraduate gym and EVERYONE was singing along. It made me feel really old.
LOVE the call me maybe craze… This video is equally as hilarious, I can’t decide which one i love more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlyUAGGqcqw
Love that guys always seem to make these cover videos way more entertaining than girls can!