As a High School teacher I love finding ways to incorporate music into my lesson. A lot of times instead of setting a timer, I will find a 2 minute or 3 minute song and let my students know that they have until the end of the song before we move onto the next part of our lesson.
Since I am a teacher and a VZWBuzz ambassador, I had to share MY ONGOING list with all of you! Each month I do one sponsored post as party of the #VZWBuzz team and this is the one I chose to write about this October! I hope you enjoy it and share this post with other moms, teachers, and church groups!
I tried to use a Pandora station once, and then all of a sudden during my plan period the music had the worse cuss words I had heard. So grateful that I didn’t have my kids listening to it.
If you aren’t a teacher, but you have kids this is also a great list to keep on in the house when you want to shut the TV off and be productive or play with your kids! Music is the soundtrack of life right?
The issue with finding popular songs is that almost any upbeat song has many inappropriate lyrics. Then the songs that I thought were totally appropriate, once I sit down to listen to the word they are not. Also, there are those songs that don’t sing about anything bad and then all of a sudden they decide to throw in a cuss word.
So I have been working on a playlist of songs within the last few years that are upbeat and aren’t bad. By bad I mean that they don’t contain bad word and they don’t sing about drugs, sex, or alcohol.
So I created this list and I am continuing to add to it each day! I create my list using youtube and I just play the list through my speaker!
High School Music Playlist
Happy by Pharrell Williams
Happier by Marshmello
Can’t Stop the Feeling by Justin Timberlake
Shut Up and Dance by Walk the Moon
I Gotta Feeling by The Black Eyed Peas
Chloe by Emblem3
Try Everything by Shakira
Kids in America – Clueless
The Sweet Escape – Gwen Stefani ft Akon
Supermodel – Clueless
Roar by Katy Perry
Love is an Open Door – Frozen
Everything is Awesome by Tegan and Sara
Just Like Fire by Pink
Shake it Off by Taylor Swift
Shut Up and Drive by Rihanna
Good Time by Owl City and Carly Rae Jepsen
Sia – Cheap Thrills ft. Sean Paul
Follow Me – Uncle Kracker
I will continue to add to this list. If you have any more you think I should add, please comment below!
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This is a great list! You should check out Lindsey Sterling (hip hop violinist) and The Piano Guys. They play wordless music that makes great background music at school.
This is great! I know at my son’s elementary school they are always careful about what music is played.
Great ideas. I love to stream music on Pandora, but I have to watch some of the language on the songs. YouTube is a better idea to listen on, plus my kids love the sing along (if they have the words on the screen).
We’ve been using Apple Music as of late. Seems to be easier to filter out the things they shouldn’t be listening to.
This is a great list! Just an FYI – 7 years has the lyric “by eleven smoking herb and drinking burning liquor”.
And this song is now removed. 🙂 I never noticed that line! EEK!
Cute! It’s hard to find appropriate songs that are “current”. Thanks for the list!
Nice!