Sunday, April 20, 2025
Time: 4:30 PM
Song: Heroes
Artist: David Bowie
Mode of Consumption: Playing the game Encore at my family’s Easter celebration.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/7Jh1bpe76CNTCgdgAdBw4Z?si=5be122db479f4e77
Over the last few years, my family has started playing a game on Christmas and Easter called “Encore,” because it’s essentially game we can all play. We divide into two teams, usually with five or six people on each side.
The game consists of drawing cards with words or categories and then you need to sing lyrics of songs at least eight words long that either contain that word or category.
With ages ranging from 81 to 13, the songs used can be pretty different. My Dad can pull some obscure old songs where most of us just nod, acknowledging they must be real songs because the lyrics make sense and he sings in tune. The first team that can’t provide a song loses that round.
One example is that we were assigned the category of “Royalty.”
We went back and forth a few times before I had a lyric in my head, but under the pressure of the game and the noise of other people singing other songs, I struggled to figure what the song was and what came next.
All I had was: “I will be king.”
I even had a rudimentary tune (or at least as close to a tune that a musically declined person like me can do). I lean, over and whisper the line to Jodi.
We think about it, and then it hits.
“And you will be queen.”
Although as I look at the lyrics now, I am not sure we did have them exactly right. Oh well, half the game is the other players realizing some word is wrong and calling you on it.
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