Gimme some wiggle room

I don't have to express what a powerful tool music is. We love it. We sing along, we criticize, we escape through it. Music provides some of the best therapy in all the land.

Good example of this:
My current employer never played music. We would sit in silence and fill the void with mindless chatter and search the internet for the latest headlines to find things to talk about. Once the holidays hit however, our manager decided to play holiday music all day. It was a good mix so we never got annoyed with the various seasonal tunage coming from her computer speakers and you could visibly see our moods lighten with each new song. We would get excited when songs we recognized came on and discuss which versions of the various Christmas songs we liked the best. It was glorious.

This gave our boss an idea; and she decided after the holidays were over, to keep the party going so to speak. She kept the music on. Mind you, it wasn't Christmas music, but it was the top 40s so there is always a little something for everyone playing.
It's a tiny change to our daily routine, but it's one that has certainly made a difference for the better. We wiggle around in our desk chairs and even boogy-woogy down the aisles of cubicles to make copies or send faxes. It's a lot of fun and has helped relieve a lot of the stress and tension accosiated with doing our type of work.

You never realize how much you miss something before it's gone. Before I worked for this current company, I worked in various retail stores and we always had some form of music piping through the speakers overhead and it was this kind of audible theratpy that kept people from thoughts of suicide each day (I'm telling you, check the statistics-retail is some mind f*ing sh*t)
There's actually a guy in our office we call "Mr. YouTube" not many of us know his name, but everytime we walk by his cubicle, he's got a different music video playing. I think he just overhears the name of a band from one of his young kids and then checks them out at work but it's pretty funny. I don't know what the guy does here since I only ever see him searching for videos on YouTube (seriously guy, get to work-it's not fair you get paid more then me...) but again, his position must be stressful if he seeks that much musical therapy everyday...

My mom used to get annoyed when her BBC Radio online connection would crap out and when she'd come home she'd complain that she missed some interview or exclusive first listen to some new single. In her new office she can listen to the radio as loudly as she'd like and sometimes she and her coworker (her partner in crime-I swear they're like 5 years old when they get to giggling) listen to different stations at the same time.

Hey, whatever works.
So in recognition of the wonderful power of music, this post has been full of various YouTube music videos for you all to enjoy. There's a little something for everyone so don't judge-just shake it!