The first single I bought
Rollout (My Business) by Ludacris from HMV in Lewisham Shopping Centre. I played it over and over.<\/p>\n
The first song I fell in\u00a0love with
I grew up listening to a\u00a0lot of reggae \u2013 my dad was a Rastafarian \u2013 so Get Up, Stand Up by Bob\u00a0Marley was always playing in the house when my mum was dishing out the chores. It\u2019s ironic that it\u2019s a song about redemption when you\u2019re being told to clean the house.<\/p>\n
The song I do at karaoke
You need to have a song that everyone knows, so they can help you sing along, so I\u2019d go for Angels by Robbie Williams or Wonderwall by Oasis.<\/p>\n
The song I know every\u00a0lyric to
I remember hearing Boombastic by Shaggy in\u00a0a Wallace and Gromit-style Plasticine advert for Levi\u2019s 501s in the 90s, in an advert break during The Big Breakfast, as I\u00a0was getting ready to go\u00a0to school. I loved the lyrics, although I didn\u2019t know what he was talking about because I\u00a0was only a kid.<\/p>\n
The song I can no longer\u00a0listen to
It\u2019s not so much I\u2019ve rinsed it, but Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond felt like it became a vibe during the last [men\u2019s] Euros. Now when I hear it, I think: \u201cOh no, not this again.\u201d<\/p>\n
The best song to play at\u00a0a party
Talkin da Hardest by Giggs always goes off. As\u00a0does Freed from Desire by Gala.<\/p>\n
The song I secretly like, but tell everybody I hate
I don\u2019t go around telling people I love Wannabe by the Spice Girls. But it\u2019s an underrated banger. \u201cSo, here\u2019s a story from A\u00a0to Z \/ You wanna get with me, you gotta listen carefully.\u201d A lot of people don\u2019t realise they\u2019re actually spitting bars.<\/p>\n
The song that changed my life
I was on a plane, just as we were descending to land, listening to Yebba\u2019s Heartbreak by Drake and\u00a0Yebba, which is an\u00a0interlude on the Certified Lover Boy album, and I remember thinking: \u201cThis feels as if I\u2019m bouncing on the clouds.\u201d Now, I\u2019ll listen to it any time I feel like I\u00a0need to calm down.<\/p>\n
The song that gets me up in the morning
I\u2019ll wake up, have a double espresso and an oat bar and say: \u201cAlexa, play Cosmic Girl by Jamiroquai,\u201d and it\u2019ll make me think like I\u2019m driving through the mountains like in the video, rather than cleaning the kitchen.<\/p>\n
The song that makes me cry
Know That You Are Loved by Cleo Sol.<\/p>\n
The song I\u2019d like played at my funeral
I\u2019m not quite sure what sort of funeral I want. I\u2019ll either have Party Up (Up in Here) by DMX, because I don\u2019t want people crying. Or I might go sad and have Stay Another Day by East 17 with some dry ice coming out of the coffin\u00a0for added dramatic effect.<\/p>\n
Mo Gilligan tours<\/a> the UK<\/a> and US from 28 January to 13 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first single I boughtRollout (My Business) by Ludacris from HMV in Lewisham Shopping Centre. I played it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-264353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}