{"id":937546,"date":"2026-10-18T11:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T11:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/937546\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T11:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T11:02:11","slug":"i-drunkenly-sing-wonderwall-off-key-and-awfully-rebecca-fergusons-honest-playlist-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/937546\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I drunkenly sing Wonderwall off-key and awfully\u2019: Rebecca Ferguson\u2019s honest playlist | Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first song I fell in love with
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When I was five or six, my mum wouldn\u2019t let me listen to anything other than Christian gospel. Her friend Jane felt sorry for me and brought me a cassette with Whitney Houston on one side and Cher on the other. My ears couldn\u2019t believe what they were hearing. I Will Always Love You made me think: This is what I\u2019m going to do.<\/p>\n

The first single I bought
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So Young by the Corrs, from Sainsbury\u2019s in Walton Village in Liverpool. I couldn\u2019t really afford music as a kid, so buying a record was a big deal. I\u2019d heard the Corrs on the radio, liked their voices and thought: I\u2019m buying this.<\/p>\n

The song that is my karaoke go-to
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I have a habit of singing Wonderwall by Oasis really badly. It\u2019s like a party trick: I drunkenly sing it completely off-key and awful, but impassioned. I have no\u00a0idea why.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The song I inexplicably know every lyric to
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I was obsessed with the film Beaches as a kid. Me\u00a0and my best friend would watch it over and over and I\u2019d pretend I\u00a0was CC Bloom. The Glory of Love by Bette Midler, Wind Beneath My Wings \u2013 I know the lyrics to all of them. I\u2019m\u00a0getting nostalgic just\u00a0thinking about it.<\/p>\n

The best song to play at a party
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I like to do a bit of DJing after a few drinks, and Mundian to Bach Ke by Panjabi MC always goes down well, but you\u2019ve got to drop it late in the party. If you play it too early, people aren\u2019t ready.<\/p>\n

The song I can no longer\u00a0listen to
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When I was a teenager, I\u00a0was feeling particularly low, and I feel like that Everybody Hurts by REM saved me that day. It was this gentle reminder: this is life, everybody hurts, get up and get on with it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The song I secretly like, but tell everyone I hate
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I wouldn\u2019t put Blue (Da\u00a0Ba Dee) by Eiffel 65 on at one of my parties, but I might play it while I\u2019m doing the dishes.<\/p>\n

The best song to have sex to
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I imagine Drunk in Love by Beyonc\u00e9 would probably work!<\/p>\n

The song that changed my life
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A Change Is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke, which I sang at my first X Factor audition. I\u2019d prepared three songs and Simon Cowell stopped me from singing the first two. A Change Is Gonna Come made more sense for me emotionally anyway. I\u00a0thought about myself and members of my family I\u2019d seen struggling and almost went into myself while I sang it.<\/p>\n

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The song that gets me up in the morning
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Blasting a bit of Beautiful Day by U2 always helps when you\u2019re feeling a bit crappy or tired after a late night with the kids.<\/p>\n

The song that makes me\u00a0cry
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Hope There\u2019s Someone by Antony and the Johnsons. It\u2019s just so sad. The way it\u2019s delivered, you can really hear the pain. It gets me every time.<\/p>\n

The song I want played at my funeral
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I\u2019d want something fun that reminded friends and family of good times. I\u2019ve been listening to Movin\u2019 to the Sun by Hugel, Imael Angel and Ultra Nat\u00e9 lately. I\u2019d have that, except \u2013 God, it\u2019s morbid thinking about your funeral, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

Rebecca Ferguson tours The\u00a0Hits at Christmas, 2\u00a0to 12 December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first song I fell in love with When I was five or six, my mum wouldn\u2019t let…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-937546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}