{"id":874149,"date":"2026-08-30T18:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/874149\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T18:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:56:20","slug":"after-i-had-my-cat-stolen-i-would-listen-to-funkadelic-and-cry-and-cry-jennifer-herremas-honest-playlist-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/874149\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018After I had my cat stolen, I would listen to Funkadelic and cry and cry\u2019: Jennifer Herrema\u2019s honest playlist | Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first song I fell in love with
Van Halen\u2019s Runnin\u2019 With the Devil. I was five or six and I went to visit my cousin Tommy who was much older. He was on a hockey team and we went to see them practise before the game and they had Runnin\u2019 With the Devil on really loud. I was like: \u201cWait, what\u2019s this?!\u201d<\/p>\n

The song I do at karaoke
You Shook Me All Night Long by AC\/DC. Me and Brian Johnson \u2013 my voice has that thing, you know?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The song I inexplicably know every lyric to
I still remember the full 12-inch version of the Sugarhill Gang\u2019s Rapper\u2019s Delight \u2013 I did it this morning! That\u2019s a record my dad got me. He loved dancing to it.<\/p>\n

The song I can no longer listen to
Meet on the Ledge by Fairport Convention. Partly because of the tragedy of Sandy Denny. But also because I listened to it over and over at a really depressing time.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The song that changed my life
When I first heard Lou Reed\u2019s Satellite of Love on the radio it sounded so different and weird to me. It really imprinted on me.<\/p>\n

The best song to play at a party
Let It Whip by Dazz Band. The way it starts, it sounds just like the way a party starts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The song that gets me up in the morning
I listen to the Gap Band\u2019s Gotta Get Up when the roosters are crowing and it\u2019s really early in the morning. It\u2019s a song I can listen to without getting inside my head.<\/p>\n

The first single I bought
I had braces on my legs when I was a baby and then later I went with my dad to a shoe shop, Buster Brown, to buy some Mary Janes. I loved those patent leather party shoes. Then my dad went and got me Mary Jane by Rick James. I didn\u2019t know what Mary Jane meant, but my dad did.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The song I want played at my funeral
Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd. I\u2019m a big fan. The lyrics are gorgeous and it\u2019s appropriate. I don\u2019t think I\u2019m going to die anytime soon.<\/p>\n

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The best song to have sex to
I never put on music or anything like that. But if I was going to choose something that\u2019s got a chill vibe it would be Memory Motel by the Rolling Stones.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The song that makes me cry
Funkadelic\u2019s I Miss My Baby. My cat Callie was stolen by the post lady and I would listen to that song and cry and cry. She was suspended from the postal service. But I never got my cat back.<\/p>\n

Black Bananas\u2019 new album, Bad Bunch, is out on Friday.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first song I fell in love withVan Halen\u2019s Runnin\u2019 With the Devil. I was five or six…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-874149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}