The Soundtrack to Your Life: "Who's that Girl?"

If you could have a boom box follow you around in your day to day life, what song would be blasting from the speakers? If you could pick a soundtrack to represent your life, what would it be?

A very dear, close, crazy friend of mine would always ask me this question when we were in college and we would laugh about the various tunes that would represent our lives. She said that her life's anthem would revolve around Eve's "Who's That Girl" and envisioned Flavor Flav following her down campus streets, with a 1981 boom box perched on his shoulder blasting THE song that represented her life. She always blared it through her headphones whenever she dominated an exam and in some cases, even when she didn't do so well, just to remind her that she's DA GIRL and nothing could break her stride.

These late night conversations about the soundtrack to our lives with my dear, close, crazy friend are some of my favorite college memories, and at the time, I found the concept to be kind of bizarre and just truly a funny thing to think about with a glass a wine. At the risk of sounding cliche, my college experience was truly the best four years of my life (so far) and if I had to pick a song that would represent those years it would be difficult. Was it Prince who wrote, "My Life is Really Great and I Don't Want to Graduate"? No? I didn't think so either.

It wasn't until I graduated and started my full-time job that my life's soundtrack unfolded and for the past 1.5 years, I have been compiling "My Life's Greatest Hits: 1.5". Just like Jock Jams and Now That's What I Call Music, this soundtrack is just one of many editions to come, because unlike my dear, close, crazy friend, who was able to nail down THE song that represented her life, I have found that my life requires many tunes - some accompanied by Flavor Flav holding a boom box, whiles others need to be paired with Celine Dion and a sold out crowd.

Below is what version "1.5" looks like for me (with the holidays approaching, this soundtrack would make a great stocking stuffer):

1. Say it Ain't So by Weezer - "WHAT?! So you're saying I have to graduate and get a job?!" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU7LZts87Zg)
2. Gotta Get Thru This by David Bedingfield - This was my pump up song to shake off the post graduation blues and its techno beat would inspire me during my 6 am commute.(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gary.hart/lyricsb/bedingfield.html)
3. Bad Day by Daniel Powter - Um, yeah. This song was my anthem for a while; I was missing my college friends and I was trying to get used to the real world. If you couldn't find me in the phone book it was because I was going by "Debbie Downer" at the time. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIcFgl6zf3A)
4. Crazy by Gnarls Barkley - I think I just lost my damn mind for a moment or two. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd2B6SjMh_w)
5. Ain't No Mountain High Enough preformed by Diana Ross - I was finally coming to terms with life after college and succeeding at my career; the fact that I had a "career" was an accomplishment and I started to get a little skip in my step knowing that I could really beat the odds. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain)
6. Home by Michael Buble - I was traveling a lot for while and I would listen to this song as I looked out the airplane window - I kid you not. I know, I'm lame. But it was when I was listening to this song, missing home, that I realized that my life truly had a soundtrack. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDQnkYwfNfk)
7. Suddenly I See by KT Tunstall - Call it breakthrough. Call it breakdown. Call it whatever you want. I suddenly saw that life goes on after college and actually can be just as great. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-At6avvY_4)
8. SexyBack by Justin Timberlake - Oh, yeah - my Sexy was Back! Well, I don't know if it ever actually left... but I just felt the need to include JT in my compilation. (http://www.completealbumlyrics.com/lyric/130587/Justin+Timberlake+-+Sexyback.html)
9. Glamorous by Fergie - I was finding ways to spice up my life,and have been living G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S life every since, or at least trying to! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOQvcMLll4E)
10. Who's That Girl by Eve - In honor of my dear, close, crazy friend, the last song on the soundtrack to my life, edition 1.5, is dedicated to her for making me realize that no matter how down you can be, you can't help but to smile if you think of Flavor Flav following you with a boom box, playing THE song that represents your life.(http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/eve/whosthatgirl.html)

So, what's YOUR life's soundtrack?