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Give me your best 3 song playlist for waking up my teenager for school. (lemmy.world)
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School has started and my teen refuses to use an alarm, leaving me to do the wakeup myself. As thr door is locked, I cannot gently awaken them. So, I decided music was great and chose the following 3 songs (played in this order and the reaction):

  • Viva La Vida - Coldplay
  • [quiet groans from inside, no movement]
  • Baby Shark
  • [whimpers and the sound of pillows shuffling]
  • Welcome to the Jungle - Guns & Roses
  • [door flew open, I was forced to flee]

So three songs seems to be the sweet spot. I'd like to keep it fresh and change daily so they can't adapt. Please give me your 3-song playlist so I can continue to psychologically torture wake my child for school every day.

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[–] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

  1. Cbat - Hudson Hawke

  2. Gangnam Style - Psy

  3. Burning Down the House - Tom Jones/The Cardigans

Start off confusing them with a cacophony of sound, followed by high energy, into Tom Jones shouting. Should be pretty hard to sleep through all of that

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Had no idea there was a Tom Jones cover of Burning Down the House.

    In return, here's a David Byrne cover of Crystal Water's Gypsy Woman.

    Neither really capture the original, but they're interesting.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    I was playing video games with a friend while listening to music and said out loud "is this a Tom Jones cover of Burning Down the House?" and her immediate impression of the song was dead on even though she'd never heard it before

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