Happy 2016 to anyone crazy enough to still be around and reading this! Hopefully if you celebrated the calendar change, you did it without painful repercussions.

I guess I kind of picked out the music theme for the month. Hopefully Blobby agrees with it. At some point in a previous discussion, he brought up the idea of popular artists doing old timey music. I love old timey music. Well, I guess it depends on who is defining old timey music. Or if you’re a Doctor Who fan, old timey wimey music. I enjoy listening to music from the 1920s to the 1950s. To me that’s old timey music. So I’ll be focusing on songs by modern artists who have more-or-less either covered or been inspired by a song from that time zone. Hopefully Blobby will be able to run with this. Hopefully I will as well.

I’ll start with off with a selection from Christina Aguilera. Her 2006 double album “Back to Basics” was very much a throwback to songs from that era. Or at least songs that felt like they could belong in that era. Well, many of the songs were. There were definitely some very modern songs as well.

For my first theme selection this month, I present “I Got Trouble”:

Definitely not something one would expect from a modern pop artist. I’m not sure how well her following received the album as a whole either. But there were quite a few selections from it that I liked, and all fit that old timey wimey feel.

Timey wimey.