Amazing Racers Moved by Music

Amazing Racers Moved by Music by Roxanne McDonald

Check out the team playlists. Chris Daughtry, who is third-best-selling album right now, is at the top for Amazing Race competitors!

If you have a brain, if you live on this planet, you likely know Sprint teamed with Amazing Race. It’s all over the net, in the news, and even, of course, in ads aired during The Amazing Race.

But you may not have yet checked out the teams’ playlists.

I was intrigued when the sample playlist shown in a commercial on Sunday, March 4th showed Chris Daughtry at the top of the list, so I investigated further (despite the fact that I don’t use, own, or care yet about having a cell phone [which is not an invitation for solicitation…grumble, grumble]).

Here’s what I discovered at the CBS/Amazing Race site:

Charla and Myrna listen to Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger”, an appropriate competition song which Teri and Ian also listen to. Cyni Lauper and Madonna are on the twenty-somethings’ list, as are Mary J. Blige’s esteem-empowering song, “Take Me as I Am” and Destiny’s Child’s “Survivor”. The cousins reinforce their bonds with “We are Family,” by The Pointer Sisters, and take it easy, I suppose, with slower songs like Phil Collins’ “Take A Look At Me Now,” by Kira and Bonnie Tyler or moodier songs like Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone.”

Eric and Danielle apparently get empowered differently, with a bit more venom, in songs like “Lips Like Morphine,” by Kill Hannah, and “Hate”, by Plain White Tees. At the same time as these fairly new lovers have included Jack Johnson’s “Sitting, Waiting, Wishing” and AFI’s “Love Like Winter,” they have motivators or mood elevators like The raconteurs’ “Steady As She Goes.” The couple even has some good classic stuff from Dylan, “Hurricane”, and Kenny Loggins, “Danger Zone,” which likely come in handy during Road Blocks and Detours and such.
Joe and Bill have the impelling seventies and eighties disco and pop music, such as “It’s My Life by “Jon Bon Jovi,” the original “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor, and “Disco Inferno” by The Tramps. A little tongue in cheek, political jab with R.E.M.’s “It’s the end of the world as we know it,” added to a James Taylor classic and rounded off by some super hits by Armstrong and Cole, make, along with their down-time tunes like Enya’s ambient “A Day without Rain” and another nice pop from Selena, “I Could Fall in Love,” and the guys are equipped with a nice eclectic selection.

Oswald and Danny have the least predictable library in tow, what with Madonna’s “Get Together,” Beyonce’s

“Irreplaceable”, and Heather Small’s “Proud” topping a list that drives the funniest duo to come in fast, hard, and early in the race, moved by everything from “Atrevete-te-te” by Calle 13 to “Faster Kill Pussycat” by Paul Oakenfold and featuring Brittany Murphy to the equally telling choice, “Not Ready to Make Nice,” by the Dixie Chicks, all the while keeping up the challenge with a more potent “Show Me What You Got,” by Jay Z.

Rob and Amber also have a more eclectic collection, one less in-your-face than you might expect: Tom Petty brings them “Free Fallin,’” which I hope is not an omen of any sort; Andrea Bocelli galvanizes and serenades at once with “Con Te Partiro,” and Toto brings back that worldly awareness in the “Africa” melody. In contemporary terms, two Black Eyed Peas’ songs and a Bryan Adams number reinforce their partnership; and romantic and slower pieces round off the reality stars’ list, making for sexy and enjoyable and maybe even rare relaxing moments, with songs from Shakira, “Hips Don’t Lie,” and Fergie, “Fergalicious”.

I didn’t include all the songs on all the lists or thoroughly cover the choices like the pumpers Uchenna and Joyce chose or those motivators Teri and Ian chose. But you vcan see the complete lists of all the teams—including those of the racers who have been eliminated—at CBS/Amazing Race (with Sprint) website.

And, now, wait. I can’t seem to find Daughtry on any list, so maybe he and his chart-topper were added to the commercial model more recently. Oh, duh, this season was begun before Daughtry hit the charts…. That one almost got past me–you know, how they say one thing and show another, to keep you engaged and wanting…of course.

However that works, it’s cool to know that music keeps the teams motivated or mellow or whatever else they need to be.
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