so I'm home for my mom's birthday weekend

[meitachi]

In the car to go buy a proper Asian fruit cake, One Direction comes on the radio with "Live While We're Young."

BROTHER： Who is this?
ME: One Direction.
BROTHER: Noooo. *reaches out to change channel*
ME: *bats hand away* NO, IT'S SO CATCHY.
BROTHER: I know! I already got What Makes You Beautiful stuck in my head. STOP IT.
ME: No!
BROTHER: Fine, I'm going to play something else to drown this out.

So he gets out his phone to play Taylor Swift's "We Are Never, Ever Getting Back Together" at top volume.

(Clearly we were a car full of mature and excellent music battles.)

Comments

[zanzando.livejournal.com]

BEST music battles, tbqh.

[meiface.livejournal.com]

For the record, they did not mesh very well. :(

[zanzando.livejournal.com]

Sadness. :(

[meiface.livejournal.com]

They should get together and do a duet! Or a concert! I suspect Dylan O'Brien would be jamming in the first row. (Or backstage...)

[altri-uccelli.livejournal.com]

LOLOL. I drive my kids around here and there all the time, and the TSwift song is on, like, every two minutes so I'm absolutely effing sick of it, HOWEVER... there's this part where I go, in unison with her, "like, EVER" and get so much satisfaction in that. :DDD

[meiface.livejournal.com]

Man, some of her other songs are super catchy but this one just doesn't hook me and I'm always like noooooo stooooop when it comes on. Not that I claim to have fabulously discerning taste in music since I definitely like the catchy pop stuff, but something about this song...

[nyw.livejournal.com]

omg i am laughing forever

[meiface.livejournal.com]

haha yeah sometimes the brother is amusing. :D

[chaos-harmony.livejournal.com]

Your stories about your brother make we wish I hadn't been an only child. :P

[meiface.livejournal.com]

oh there are pros and cons. There is a lot of guilt actually in whether or not I'm doing a good enough job as an older sibling especially with how many years are between us... Half the time I feel like a third parent. But then there are the hilarious incidents, like getting him into kpop and him filming himself dancing to Sorry Sorry and Lucifer lmao.

Also I accidentally got him into politics, oops. (Or as much as a high schooler is into politics, I guess? Apparently a bunch of kids at his boarding school watched the presidential debate in the lounge, which I was kind of surprised by.)

[acornmama.livejournal.com]

Sounds like us discovering THE WANTED ( late I know)

[meiface.livejournal.com]

I just had to google them because I had no idea what you were talking about but WHOA. Boy bands aside from 1D in this decade? After the boy band craze of the 90s? I'm shocked. They're British-Irish too, huh. How are their songs?

[acornmama.livejournal.com]

I /we are kind of addicted to Glad You Came. It is rare to hear someone's accent when they sing these days and they don't hide it at all. The other songs are in the same vein. Catchy, pretty, fairly similar but still fun. My kid likes War Zone I haven't heard it yet.But so far Glad You Came is the best.