Leave Britney Alone
The song which is guaranteed to put a smile on my face, particularly in the legendary third hour of Thursday Moselele nights, is Womanizer by Britney Spears.
I’m not ashamed. I will come straight out and say that I’m probably not a massive Britney fan. I didn’t know the song at all before it appeared in Book 5 (thanks Sarah). So as with all unknown songs it was a case of listening repeatedly until it becomes a horrific earworm, strumming along and trying to work it out.
It was awful. Really terrible.
But then. We tried it in a group. It was still awful… but it was fun. And perhaps there was a sliver of hope that maybe with persistence we could get there.
So we tried and tried and added some more beer and tried again. And now, it works. It’s significantly more robust in style than the original. It occasionally deviates Wurzels-style into a West Country Wummenizuur, which has the unfortunate effect of making Chris Downing collapse in hysterics. But it’s definitely one of the songs that makes everyone happy and that, for me, is what makes Moselele so much fun.
Mark Scourse
You can have a go at playing this yourself by looking at the chords or you can listen to us banging away at it via Soundcloud
