I absolutely love the lyrics -and music- of Shania Twain’s “Ka-ching”. When I moved to Dubai, and whenever I listened to it, I couldn’t help but associate its lyrics to life here in Dubai, it’s as if this song was especially created to reflect and address the materialistic lifestyle in this city; the urge to shop 24/7, the thousands of temptations that know how to make the wisest of people fall for the trap of irresistible consuming, and the ever-growing, and annoying, habit of having more,  whether things or money.

I think that Dubai is one of the very rare places in which an individual’s effort to earn and save money is as strong as and equal to an individual’s urge to spend and waste that money he worked so hard to save; a beautiful cosmopolitan city that would turn the least interested in shopping into professional shopaholics.

Shania Twain, Ka-Ching, lyrics.

What about you? if the city you’re living in was a song, what would it be? give it a thought.