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_makeachange 1. Dirty Little Secret--All American Rejects.
Marti caught Derek and Casey sneaking down the stairs from Edwin's room once. They'd been up there because no one expected them there, and Edwin was visiting Mom in Toronto for the weekend. When Marti demanded an explanation, their lie that they expected a nine year old to buy, well, she didn't buy it. She got the truth out of them. That's HER Dirty Little Secret.
2. All For One--High School Musical 2 Soundtrack
She was really to little to get into the High School Musical thing, but Edwin and Casey made a Big Deal out of it. They even had an HSM party the night before HSM3 premiered in which they and all their friends came dressed as their favorite character and watched the first two movies. And no, she's not kidding. She wishes she was. Watching the first two before the third didn't seem like a huge deal. But making an Event of it, and dressing like characters? She wasn't sure about that. The worst part? Casey and Edwin and all their dancer friends were dancing along. When Edwin later landed a role as Chad in the SJST production of HSM, she knew why. He already knew all the dances.
3. Goodbye Love--Rent Soundtrack
If Casey and Edwin made a big deal of HSM, Casey and Emily and Lizzie made a big deal out of Rent. They all knew all the words and listened to the soundtrack all the time and then when Emily started dating Sheldon she tried to test him to see if he could sit through Rent. She got the shock of her life when he started singing along and announcing that his overacheiving cousin Stephanos had been in a production in the Toronto theater district. He knew every. single. word. He was hoarse by this song.
4. Last Train to Clarksville--The Monkees.
Nora has every Monkees cd/record/cassette ever produced. This song holds special significance to her because back when she and Dennis were married, he worked out of town more than he worked in town. Sometimes he would send her train tickets to meet him in whatever city he was in and the first time he sent them with a copy of this song. Nora didn't tell a lot of stories about her life with Dennis out of respect for George, but Casey had asked, and Marti, quite frankly, was quite partial to this particular one.
5. The Receiving End of It All--Streetlight Manifesto.
Lizzie and Derek both listened to this band, especially when they were in bad moods. Which, being teenagers happened at least twice a day. Especially this song, which is very conducive to wallowing when in said bad moods. In fact, if Marti hadn't had Edwin and Casey's whiny girl-guitar music wallow music to compare, she probably would have thought all teenagers considered this their wallowing theme song. She later guilitly realized it was an acquired trait, when she started to listen to it as a moody teen. But it's different with her! Really! And anyway it was better than Edwin and Casey's wallow music by far!
6. When You're Good To Mama--Queen Latifah as Mama Morton in Chicago from the Soundtrack.
When SJST put on a variety show, Emily performed this song. It was mostly a ploy to make Sheldon go all hot and bothered, but it became blackmail when Dimmy and Marti got their hands on Derek's video camera and taped her practicing. They threatened to show the school her cheesy practice moves if she didn't take them to a movie and Chuck E. Cheese. That was some good pizza.
7. Big, Blonde, and Beautiful--Queen Latifah as Motormouth Maybelle in Hairspray from the Soundtrack.
George and Edwin were fond of playing this song when Nora and Lizzie got onto them for not eating healthy. It was a spiteful thing, but it kept bets from forming.
8. Gonna Buy Me A Dog--The Monkees.
This was the only song on any of Nora's Monkees albums George would openly admit to liking--probably because the jokes in the song were as wacky as the ones he tried to make. Nevertheless, all the kids liked this song much better than they liked any of George's jokes.
9. Light My Candle--Roger and Meme--Rent Soundtrack.
Casey did this song with a male partner for one of her dance competitions. If you thought Derek messed with Lucy, you should have seen how jealous he was of Peter. He refused to leave Peter and Casey alone to work on the very sensual dance--regardless of how obviously gay Peter was. He even brought his boyfriend with him once to make Derek finally leave him alone, but Derek was convinced it was just some friend he paid to pretend. And yet, Derek still swore he didn't want Casey. Yeah, and Marti was the queen of England and none of this was going to ever become material when she grew up to become a novelist. Mmhmm.
10. All I Care About Is Love--Richard Gere as Billy Flynn in Chicago from the Soundtrack.
When Emily was entering a Chicago song into the SJST variety show, so was Ralph. He was trying to make a joke--Amanda had been trying to get him to try out for the school musical, and he wanted to show her how bad he would be, so he tried to prove he couldn't get something half heartedly prepared into the variety. He lost his bet and made it in. He conspired with Edwin to steal Derek's video camera so that he couldn't hold it over Ralph's head forever.
11. I Wanna Be Free--The Monkees.
Nora campaigned to have this song played at her and George's wedding reception. He adamantly refused, like the lead singer of George and the Jungle would have to, if he wanted to keep any shred of self-respect. When they asked the kids to vote, she was outvoted by every Venturi and Lizzie.
12. Fallen For You--Drake Bell
Edwin was a huge Drake Bell fan. He wasn't even embarrassed about it. When he put this song on a mix for Michelle and she got mad about it, he dumped her because anyone who wasn't a Drake fan wasn't worth dating.
13. Tapestry--Carole King
This song used to scare Marti when she was little. It didn't scare her anymore, but she doesn't exactly voluntarily listen to it either. She could never explain why. Edwin and Lizzie were big fans of the whole album, but whenever they were playing it, when she knew the song was coming up, she always put in earplugs and covered her head with her pillow. Derek found her that way one time and wanted to know why she was doing that, but she was embarrassed to be afraid of a song, especially when she couldn't explain why, so she made up a story that didn't make any sense, but he bought it anyway, thankfully.
14. Can't Take It--All American Rejects.
When Lizzie went on an internship in BC one summer Edwin played this song on repeat for a week. If Derek hadn't already moved out of the house, she's sure he would have stolen the cd after the first hour or so, but since he and Casey were gone, and George and Nora couldn't hear it from three floors below, Marti was subjected to it. She'd thought about stealing it too, but in order to actually manage such a feat, she suspected she'd have to deliver some sort of "get over it" speech that Derek or Casey (or Lizzie, if it wasn't about her), might have been able to do, but she would never manage. She used her iPod any time she was home and stayed over at Dimmy's for the last three days of it. She finally figured out he'd stopped playing it when she came home for a change of clothes and realized it was quite. Fearing he might have driven himself to something really bad (just because Edwin had dealt with severe depression earlier that year) she went upstairs to find Lizzie home, and making out with him. After Nora had been doing some serious cleaning upstairs and starting to sing along when she'd never heard the song before, she'd emailed Lizzie about it. Lizzie's solution was to use her weekend off to fly home. Marti had never been so happy to see her. She could finally sleep in her own bed again, instead of on the Davis's couch!
15. Make Me Smile--Chicago (the band).
Edwin's Chicago-fanship generally stayed an Edwin thing. But one day he'd been playing this at some study session and Derek--Derek!--proclaimed it cool. This gave Edwin permission to put it on roadtrip playlist (which he was in charge of making, since he was the least likely to get frustrated with the computer). Soon it became a family singalong sort of song.
16. Nowadays--Renee Zellweger as Roxie Hart in Chicago from the soundtrack.
Emily had been debating this song first before she picked that other one. But seeing as Sheldon wasn't the creepy type, that whole "you can even marry Harry, but mess around with Ike" didn't seem like much of a turn-on. Dimmy and Marti still got some great footage from it.
17. So Far Away--Carole King.
When Lizzie went back to her internship she made a playlist for Edwin with this song about one in every three. She wanted to drill it in his head that she didn't want to be away from him so he would not go all depressed again. He did her one even better. After a couple of weeks of that song he decided to take that whole "it would be so fine to see your face at my door" part of it literally and flew up to see her. Fortunately for Marti, this was the weekend George and Nora were out of town on a second honeymoon. Derek would have been proud of that party!
18. Roxie--Renee Zellweger as Roxie Hart in Chicago from the soundtrack.
After Emily and Ralph's Chicago stunts in the SJST variety show, Edwin decided to do "Razzle Dazzle" when he got to high school. Naturally it had become something of a MacDonald-Venturi and friends tradition. Marti couldn't let them down, so she did Roxie when it was her turn. George left in the middle of the performance, because he couldn't manage to watch his baby girl perform such a flirty song.
19. 25 or 6 to 4--Chicago (the band)
This was the other Chicago song Edwin was allowed to put on the playlist. Derek figured out after paying attention to the lyrics that it was about drugs, which he found incredibly hilarious for a band like Chicago. So he started playing it for Ralph and Sam. It became an even bigger joke when George got in on it (trying to relive the glory days of rock and roll with D-Rock again) and decided to help them write their own crazy drug-like song. It really helped that Ralph had a dentist appointment with laughing gas that week. they got some pretty wacky stuff from it.
20. Cooties--Hairspray soundtrack. (This song was cut from the movie, but in the play.)
Maybe because Dimmy was her best friend, but Marti was the only girl who didn't think boys had cooties before junior high. This meant she had to do a lot of begging, pleading, and wheedling with her friends when she wanted her guy friends to come along, and she was sort of relieved when Dimmy had to go to his grandmas house the week of her princess party.
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Great job, though :D
I love that Ed is a HSM fan. And not shy about it!
#3 just totally cracked me up! Genius.
And I laughed so hard at this: "Yeah, and Marti was the queen of England and none of this was going to ever become material when she grew up to become a novelist. Mmhmm."
This whole thing was great!