Life Through Music: “Bust a Move” by Young MC

Music messages come to me in so many different ways. This week’s song came to me when I was in my Health & Personal Fitness for Life class. This class is one of two classes that I’m taking for winter term. Part of this health class is online and the other half (the lab portion) is in the GYM building of PCC. This music message came to me early morning when I was with my class working out in the weight room. We had just started getting into the flow of doing a circuit of the different weight machines with stationary bikes in between each machine. I’m sweating my heine off trying this new kind of workout and at the same time loving the new challenge. Then the teacher turns on the stereo and blasts the music pretty damn loud. I wasn’t bothered one bit by how loud it was. I love music when working out. Music really helps distract me and push me forward through my workouts. The music she put on was a mixture of up beat pop songs for the most part, but then I was thrown off by a song I hadn’t heard in quite some time. That song is of course “Bust a Move” by Young MC. It took me right back to rocking my Young MC cassette tape in my Walkman. That’s right I said it a CASSETTE tape. I am really that old. I actually listen to Young MC’s tape quite a bit back in the day. I even remember where it was that I found out about Young MC in the first place. Once a month in my music class in elementary school we would get a “free day”. My music teacher Mr. Stevens would let us bring in anything that we wanted to share with the class. So basically we would just spend that day in music class listening to all sorts of different kinds of music. Looking back now it was so awesome that he did that. I’m not sure the same thing would go over very well now days. Anyway, I cannot for the life of me remember who brought in the cassette tape of Young MC, but I’m so glad they did. The song that was picked to be played in our "free day" was a song called “principles office” which is a lesser know song by him, but it was enough to catch my attention. I was instantly hooked by the sweet jazzy sounds and hip hop beats mixed together that was just too much to deny my ears.  

So, now you know a bit of history with this song and myself. Now I will talk about why I picked this song to be my song of the week. I picked this song because it gave me the pick me up I needed as I was pushing myself to take it to the next level with my physical activity. For most of the last year I have done a good job at maintaining where I am with my body physically. This is important to know how to maintain where you are at, but I have been getting very frustrated with just leveling off. I want to go further. With 2012 in the past and all the tough work I have done with myself emotionally behind me as well, 2013 presented me with a fresh start.  So, I signed up for this Health & Personal Fitness class to kind of spring board myself back into motion. It has definitely done that and more. So, to get where I want to be with myself is less about “talking the talk” and more about “walking the walk”. Now it’s time to do the work. So the Lyric “Come on Fatso, just bust a move” really stands out to me. People can praise my accomplishments of how far that I have already come with myself, but that is all in the past. My story is NOT finished. I will not sit around using the fact that I already lost 150 lbs till the end of time. The time is now and I can’t wait to see what this chapter has to offer me. 

Some other parts of the lyrics that I connected with are:

The girl in the chorus says, “You want it, You got it”. 

This also speaks to me because I do want it and I’m going to get it. 

“You're on a mission and your wishin'”

Yes, I am on a mission and it’s more than wishing

“Someone could cure your lonely condition

Lookin' for love in all the wrong places”

Yes, it’s time to go inward and find more of the love I need to become more the me that I am inside this body. 

“But every dark tunnel has a light of hope”

Absolutely. 

This song is a prime example of how a song can move you in many different ways. When Young MC wrote this song I highly doubt that he was writing to inspire over weight people to lose some “lb”s. Many things in life can be taken how ever you need them to be. It's just important that you get the message. For me this song helped my new found rhythm and for that I'm always thankful. So come everybody and....

As always I bring this to you with love and pure D-lite. = )