“Lights,” “Camera,” & “Action” Songs, Vol. 1

I don't know why I keep coming up with ideas for music posts, but I do. And I enjoy doing so. When I thought up this one, I knew there'd be lots of songs to choose from, and there were. The first in what will be a three-part series, this is... "Lights," "Camera," and "Action"!!!  ~  JH

1)  Ellie Goulding  ~  “Lights”

2)  Rush  ~  “The Camera Eye”

3)  Tauren Wells  ~  “Love Is Action”

4)  Selena Gomez & The Scene  ~  “Hit The Lights”

5)  R.E.M.  ~  “Camera”

6)  Howard Jones  ~  “Dream Into Action”

7)  Journey  ~  “Lights”

8)  Sophie Ellis-Bextor  ~  “Love Is A Camera”

9)  Mark Lanegan  ~  “No Easy Action”

10)  Sløtface  ~  “Bright Lights”

11)  The Buggles  ~  “I Am A Camera”

12)  Pillar  ~  “Call To Action”

13)  MAX ft. gnash  ~  “Lights Down Low”

14)  Jason Chen  ~  “Smile For The Camera”

15)  Millennium  ~  “Welcome To The Action”

16)  TobyMac ft. Hollyn  ~  “Lights Shine Bright”

17)  Dead Dance  ~  “Camera Song”

18)  Jimmy Eat World  ~  “Action Needs An Audience”

19)  Baillie And The Boys  ~  “The Lights Of Home”

20)  Young The Giant  ~  “Camera”

21)  Kim Mitchell  ~  “Kids In Action”

22)  Gary Clark, Jr.  ~  “Bright Lights”

23)  Bucks Fizz  ~  “My Camera Never Lies”

24)  The Who ft. Eddie Vedder  ~  “Let’s See Action”

25)  Sia  ~  “Dim The Lights”

“Blank” Songs

Whether it's blank spaces, blank pages, blank tapes, blank babies (wait, what?), blank expressions, fill in the blanks, or something else entirely, it's probably represented in this collection of...you guessed it..."Blank" Songs. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Taylor Swift  ~  “Blank Space”

2)  Mumford & Sons  ~  “White Blank Page”

3)  Cherri Bomb  ~  “Drawing A Blank”

4)  The Smashing Pumpkins  ~  “Blank Page”

5)  Christina Aguilera  ~  “Blank Page”

6)  From Indian Lakes  ~  “Blank Tapes”

7)  Epica  ~  “Blank Infinity”

8)  Failure  ~  “Blank”

9)  Le Prince Miiaou  ~  “Fill The Blank With Your Own Emptiness”

10)  The Presidents Of The United States Of America  ~  “Blank Baby”

11)  Loosie  ~  “Blank”

12)  Tim McGraw  ~  “Blank Sheet Of Paper”

13)  Dirty Projectors  ~  “Offspring Are Blank”

14)  Bruce Springsteen  ~  “Point Blank”

15)  Stove  ~  “Blank”

16)  Richard Hell and the Voidoids  ~  “Blank Generation”

17)  Zola Jesus  ~  “Go (Blank Sea)”

18)  Car Seat Headrest  ~  “Fill In The Blank”

19)  Lily Allen  ~  “Blank Expression”

20)  Dylan Joel  ~  “Blank”

21)  His Merry Men  ~  “Blank Book”

22)  Seafret  ~  “Blank You Out”

23)  Luthea Salom  ~  “Blank Piece Of Paper”

24)  Sonata Arctica  ~  “Blank File”

25)  Stories In Colours  ~  “Blank Page”

"Broke" Songs

This post started out featuring only Songs about BEING "broke." But I found that self-imposed restriction to be too limiting, so I expanded it to include all kinds of "Broke" songs. The result was ultimately much more rewarding...in my totally unbiased opinion. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Khalid  ~  “Young, Dumb, & Broke”

2)  Hannah Grace  ~  “Broke”

3)  Hotel Books  ~  “Broke Love”

4)  Priscilla Ahn  ~  “Remember How I Broke Your Heart”

5)  Jacob Whitesides  ~  “Broke Billionaire”

6)  Everclear  ~  “The Man Who Broke His Own Heart”

7)  Yuna  ~  “Broke Her”

8)  Joe Budden  ~  “Broke”

9)  Aloha Radio  ~  “Stoked And Broke”

10)  The Swell Season  ~  “Back Broke”

11)  William Fitzsimmons  ~  “You Broke My Heart”

12)  Lauren Aquilina  ~  “Broke”

13)  Lecrae  ~  “Broke”

14)  Alexa Goddard  ~  “We Broke The Sky”

15)  Todd Rundgren  ~  “Broke Down And Busted”

16)  Brandy Clark  ~  “Broke”

17)  Machine Gun Kelly ft. James Arthur  ~  “Go For Broke”

18)  Sea Of Bees  ~  “Broke”

19)  Keith Green  ~  “Your Love Broke Through”

20)  Cam  ~  “Half Broke Heart”

21)  Gov’t Mule  ~  “Broke Down On The Brazos”

22)  Sade  ~  “Somebody Already Broke My Heart”

23)  TobyMac  ~  “Love Broke Thru”

24)  Steve Earle & The Dukes  ~  “You Broke My Heart”

25)  Jaida Dreyer  ~  “Half Broke Horses”

“See Through” Songs

Clearly, these songs are very transparent. You can see right through them. And they can see right through you. Yeah...that's not creepy at all. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  The Horrors  ~  “I Can See Through You”

2)  Nicki Minaj  ~  “Right Thru Me”

3)  Splashh  ~  “See Through”

4)  Daniel Baron ft. Lizé  ~  “See Thru”

5)  Conan Gray  ~  “See Right Through”

6)  Pepperhead  ~  “See Through You”

7)  Active Child  ~  “See Thru Eyes”

8)  Jess McAllister  ~  “See Through”  (I love how real and unfiltered this video is! The song is great, too.)

9)  Pentatonix  ~  “See Through”

10)  Monica Moser  ~  “See Through”

11)  The Stagger Rats  ~  “See-Through Spiders”

12)  Koreen Perry  ~  “See Through You”

13)  The Oscillation  ~  “See Through You”

14)  Beth Orton ft. Nico Muhly  ~  “See Through Blue”

15)  Andrew Benjamin  ~  “See-Through Man”

16)  Amber Symons  ~  “See Through Me”

17)  Peter Bjorn And John  ~  “(I Just Wanna) See Through”

18)  Alanis Morissette  ~  “Right Through You”

19)  Mobile  ~  “See Right Through Me”

20)  Keara Graves  ~  “See Through Me”

21)  Audio Adrenaline  ~  “See Through”

22)  Molly Chapman  ~  “See Through”

23)  Starseed  ~  “See Through Your Lies”

24)  Dear Strange  ~  “I Can See Through This”

25)  Sebell  ~  “See-Through Heart”