A Horrible Way to Start off your Morning

There’s something highly unnerving about waking up to a stressful song in the morning. You know what I’m talking about; when that awful alarm clock turns on and the radio blares loudly with whatever song the radio has decided to play at the moment. Sometimes, and these mornings are always very relaxing, I awake to a beautiful and soothing song. And then there are other times when I awake to a horrible and stressful song. I attribute stressful songs in the morning as anything that doesn’t sound soothing; you be the judge. Now normally, in the day or evening, I don’t mind stressful songs, because as long as it’s not the morning, I don’t find songs stressful. I listen to rock, punk, and hip-hop, everything that I would define as stressful in the morning. But there’s just something different about rock/hip-hop songs in the morning. The blared electric and bass guitars, rough edged rocker voices, and possible autotune don’t do me well first thing in the morning.

One time, I awoke, not to find Sarah MacLauchlan’s beautiful and soothing voice singing, but exactly the opposite, the Beastie Boys. Yeah that’s right…the Beastie Boys. Now before I can go on and finish this blog, I need every person reading to hear the song that I awoke to on this particular morning. You don’t have to listen to the whole thing. In fact, I urge you not to listen to the whole thing, but I awoke to somewhere in the middle. So just click your mouse to the middle of the song, and at least listen to five seconds worth. And not the fast five seconds, but the long ones, one…Mississippi, two Mississippi, three…you get the point. I want you to endure the same torture I endured.

Now put yourself in my shoes, or lack thereof, (because I was in bed), but think about how my morning must have went. Yes, first thing in the morning I get awoken by my alarm clock and low and behold- the Beastie Boys. I don’t think I’ve ever moved so fast in the morning. I dove across the bed, slammed my hand on the off button and felt a quick sense of relief flooding through my head. Only, that split second of relief turned into horror not long after. I realized that the song was still playing! I must have missed the off button. Now I must search for the snooze button (which is a button I never press, and so it’s location is foreign to me). Ah! I finally find it and silence fills the air once again. Yet, even though I now had my precious silence, I also had a very bad start to my morning. I was cranky and moody the rest of the day, just because the Beastie Boys decided to bestow upon me their crap music. Thanks Beastie Boys, thank you very much.

Note to self: change radio station.