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Sing-along Café 2025-05-29

Our dance theme turned into a Taylor Swift theme! 

We started off looking at my Pride Affirming playlist which I filled with a lot of dance music, some of it recommended by Kai, for the potluck and dance party Saturday night. So, there’s some Christian dance music on there, and there are songs from different eras, so that it’s inclusive of all ages. 

My list was sorted in alphabetical order by Title. First, I played a dance remix of John Legend’s All of Me, and then the original. We listened briefly to APT, but then saw Dancing Queen, and loved singing with ABBA, music from our era, and I remembered that Madonna had sampled that ABBA song (Gimme, gimme, gimme from 1979) in her dance song, Hung Up in 2005 on her Confessions on a Dance Floor album. That sent us down a rabbit hole to Taylor Swift somehow. And, you’ll see we gave Ian (new to Taylor Swift, idk how) a big overview of Taylor Swift’s varied styles of music, especially some fun songs to dance and sing with. We talked briefly about how important it is to fans that we choose the "Taylor's Version" of a song because she was taken advantage of when she was young and didn't own all of her music. So, she has since re-released some albums in order to own those songs. Today, she announced that she finally owns all of her music. Power. 

We nibbled on banana bread and crunched some raw veggies (we’re so healthy). And, we laughed and remembered and sang out loud. It was a lovely evening in lovely company. 

Here’s a list of songs we sang and listened to:

  • All of Me (Tiesto’s Birthday Treatment Remix) by John Legend (also the original)
  • APT by ROSE and Bruno Mars
  • Dancing Queen by ABBA from the Mamma Mia album
  • Faith by George Michael
  • Fix my Eyes by for KING &COUNTRY
  • Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! By ABBA
  • Hung Up by Madonna
  • Love Story by Taylor Swift
  • Shake it Off by Taylor Swift
  • 22 (Taylor's Version) by Taylor Swift
  • Mean (Taylor's Version) by Taylor Swiftv
  • Tim McGraw by Taylor Swift
  • You Need to Calm Down by Taylor Swift
  • You Belong to Me by Taylor Swift
  • You Belong to Me (by Taylor Swift) by Duomo from the Bridgerton album
  • Willow by Taylor Swift
  • the 1 by Taylor Swift
  • Pink Pony Club by Chappel Roan
  • Tainted Love by Soft Cell
Next week we go to Riverwalk Commons for the party?
June 5th is the 2025 Newmarket Music Series Lineup Launch Party!


https://www.newmarket.ca/musicseries

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