Why Simply The Best sung by Tina Turner is my favourite song
This is an article written for the #septemberinleo writing prompt series with this article being for Day 10....
Today's topic could quite aptly be described as Simply The Best!
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Day 10! Afri-Tunes invites you to share your favorite song and talk us about it!
Why do you like it? Is it a new song or an old song? Do you have happy memories attached to that song?
Share it with us in the community Afri-Tunes! With some dope recommendations!
Brilliant topic ... I love music ...
The very fact that I love music makes this an extremely hard topic to answer.
In truth there are probably ten or songs that rank up there as my favourite song, but I am going to go with one that gives me very happy memories.
After all, life is about the why ... About your why!
Before I tell you my why we really need to see or hear the song ...
What do you say?
Okay here it is ... for the record some people call it Simply The Best and some people call it The Best....
Tina Turner - The Best
It's a cover!
Yes Tina Turner sang it as a cover...
The original song was sung in 1988 by the Welsh Singer Bonnie Tyler!
Bonnie Tyler - The Best
"The Best" is a song by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler from her seventh studio album, Hide Your Heart (1988). It was written by Mike Chapman and Holly Knight. Produced by Desmond Child, Tyler's version became a top-10 hit in Norway but was a minor hit elsewhere.
In 1989, American singer Tina Turner released a cover version of "The Best" for her seventh studio album, Foreign Affair. It became a worldwide hit, receiving a double platinum certification in the UK. In 1992, Turner re-recorded the track as a duet with Australian singer Jimmy Barnes.
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Cool song but why do I like it?
It is upbeat, it has lyrics everyone can remember and can sing along too!
You know the sort of thing ... karaoke darn I had a hard time trying to spell that!
The real reason is that I am Rangers football fan...
We adopted it and for many years the team would run onto the pitch with Tina Turner blaring out of the stadium speakers and on the giant screens fifty thousand Rangers fans singing along.
It made for a fun time, especially in those days when we would all have a good few pints before the game started.
What do you think about this...
That was probably twenty years ago when I was a regular at Ibrox watching Rangers live.
However we live in a nanny police state that the woke people have destroyed. We can't say boo without getting locked in jail now. So those chants have been banned, yet the other lot (Celtic) do the same thing.
Crazy but that is why I love Tina Turner's rendition of Simply the Best!
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Today's prompt is Day 10 What's your favourite song and why?
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