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Earth, Wind & Fire. Pure vitality - twenty-one notes that make it physiologically difficult to stay still.

ABBA. The peak of the Friday night feeling - fully alive in the moment, young and sweet, only seventeen forever.

Pharrell Williams. Vitality as a contagious, generous, ridiculous gift. The song that it is almost physically impossible to hear without smiling.

Queen. Freddie Mercury at escape velocity - vitality at its most incandescent and unstoppable.

Lizzo. Vitality as self-determination - the song that makes you stand up straighter just by listening. The declaration that aliveness is not conditional on anyone else's approval.