Do you really want to hurt me?

Last night my "friend" decided to upset me by sending me this for no apparent reason:

No context at all. Just halfway through a conversation, it popped up without warning and because I love 'Big Hero 6' and because I have a heart I responded with:

And my friend didn't get it! So I had to spell it out for him saying:
-This is Boy George. You know him.
-He sings the song 'Do you really want to hurt me' You know it.
-So, Do you really want to hurt me? Do you really want to make me cry?

And after more discussion of quoting song lyrics to annoy each other- which ended in a complete typed version of The Sound of Music's 'Do, a deer'- I realised that I could feature this classic as today's song. Alongside 'Karma Chameleon', this Boy George song I feel like everyone would know. It's great! On another note, unrelated to the song itself, I really admire his eye make up, it's definitely at the Adele standard which a aspire to achieve one day.

Wake Me Up

Recently I've been working quite a lot of morning shifts, so now my body is beginning to adapt to waking up at what I'd usually consider unnatural hours to start the day. This is a good thing because I've never been a morning person at all, so being able to wake up and getting out of bed when I need to and not having to run for public transport is quite the achievement. However, it has also proven to be a bit of an inconvenience for when I'm not working the morning shift, for example the past couple of days. I've had the days off and I haven't been able to sufficiently sleep in like I've wanted to. This morning for example, I woke up and it was 6:30am! Why body, why?!?! I was the only one awake, so I decided to go back to sleep for another couple of hours, just wanting everyone else to wake up soon so I could start the day. This sort of behaviour is not me at all.

Usually I want to sleep all day and hate the idea of waking up during a time with single digit number. Years ago during a high school music camp, my friend who I shared a cabin with spent so long trying to wake me up each morning. It certainly was a brave endeavour she had to undertake with that, because I stubbornly kept rolling over and burying my head back into the covers. Which leads me to the song of the day, as it was during that time the first album of Ed Sheeran came out and quite understandably (because + is an incredible album) I would sing 'Wake Me Up' to her. I didn't know all the lyrics back then, so I would constantly repeat the line "would you make me a cup of tea to open my eyes in the right way?" which is how I wake up every morning to this day (I'm heavily tea dependant).

'Wake Me Up' is such a beautiful song, telling the story of how much he loves this girl and probably one of my favourite songs of his. The music is just the single piano accompanying, and it is so delicate and pure, truly an underrated masterpiece. At the moment, I'm listening to X album and have reached the Deluxe Edition 'Even My Dad Does Sometimes' which just breaks your heart. He's so talented and I really want him to release another album soon so the world can have more of him.

Britney Spears

Britney Spears: Personally, I'm not a fan. But whenever you hear her classic songs playing at a party, you can't help but sing and dance along with enthusiasm... it's very contradictory.

The reason why I brought Britney up, is that now uni has finished I have returned back to my old job, which is what I've been doing for the past few weeks and the reason why I haven't written in ages. She features a lot on the work iPod. Like a lot. All her hit songs like:
"Toxic"
"Oops, I did it again"
"Gimme more"
"Overprotected"
"Stronger"
and "...Baby one more time" to name a few. It's sort of driving me insane, but at the same time it's evoking a weird relationship between me and her songs.

After working pretty much every single day for the past few weeks, the work playlist is getting a bit repetitive. Yet, after my shift today when I caught up with one of my closest friends and were aimlessly wandering around the city, we heard "...Baby one more time" playing in a shop and I still couldn't resist and started singing along. Which makes me actually respect her songs, because how can something that I'm not a fan of, be so catchy? It actually is mind-boggling.
Her music is, for me, like the scene in 'Easy A' (a brilliant film)

Beach Break

Today I returned home from a wonderful few days at the beach. I wish I could have stayed longer, but  the time I spent there was so much fun and the ocean was stunning!

We went on walks over the rocks each day and got to enjoy the beautiful views, walking to the edge and watching the waves crashing around us. On our last day we stuffed our faces with the traditional beach cuisine of fish and chips, which were so filling that afterwards we were feeling so gluggy that we returned back to our cabin and lay on the bed and watched a movie. After we recovered from our greed, we went to the beach and ran around in the sand until...

I ran into a hidden rock and sliced my big toe. A deep cut that flipped back quite a portion of skin and filled with sand while blood was oozing out of it. Being one of the clumsiest people ever, I was not surprised that this happened. And we made the "smart" idea to walk to the beach without shoes on (because our cabin was only 50 or so metres away), which made the walk back a bit of a challenge. But we made it and once I put antiseptic on the wound and bandaged the toe up, we continued our adventure in time for dinner. We got takeaway Chinese and drove to a beach lookout and opened up the boot of the car and sat in it while eating and watching the sun set, which was lovely and a great way to spend our last evening. 

After this semesters intensity, a beach break with one of my favourite people ever was exactly what I needed. 

Clearest Blue

Todays song of the day is different to usual, because I had a mental blank about songs to write about. I'm still completely obsessed with Postmodern Jukebox, but thought I should write about something else for this week. So I decided to ask one of my friends to pick a song for me and give an informal quick interview, which they very patiently agreed to do (thank you!).

'Clearest Blue' by CHVRCHES

Q: Tell me about the song. Why do you like it?
A: It's an easy listen and I really like her voice. Plus the lyrics discuss like a person's insecurity as to whether they are enough in their relationship.

Q: How did you feel when you first heard the song?
A: Energetic I guess. It's the sort of song that belongs at a summer festival.

Q: Where is your favourite place to listen to the song?
A: I'd say driving. It's a great driving song.
Q: Is that when you last heard the song?
A: Yep.

Q: Why did you decide 'Clearest Blue' when I asked to pick a song?
A: It's just a song that comes easy to mind.
Q: Why is that?
A: Because it's not a song that takes a lot of thought if that makes sense. Like the song feels like it sits well in the background to a good time, like festivals and driving so it's an easy mental soundtrack.

Q: What is another favourite song of CHVRHCES?
A: 'The Mother We Share'.

Spice Up Your Life

At the start of the year I admitted my childhood hardcore love for the Spice Girls in my post about Stop. I announced my continued love for them and how I to this day still will belt out the lyrics to all the songs and do all the actions, etc. Well, this Saturday I was able to live my childhood dream and got to be a Spice Girl for a night!

It was my amazing friend's incredible 21st party and we had to dress up as a celebrity/ someone from whatever decade we were born in. So my immediate instinct as a nineties baby, was to take the opportunity to finally be a Spice Girl! I was so excited! In my head I was like "I was born for this moment" and because I have short brown hair and a black dress, I was like "Posh it is"

I didn't realise how much this childhood dream still affected me, because as soon as I was in costume and did my makeup and was ready to go (while getting ready, I was singing along to the Spiceworld album) I was jumping up and down and on the car ride over, I was restless. I even managed to use this quote on the road, because I could:

And the party was AMAZING! It had an absolutely brilliant playlist which I danced to the entire night. No exaggeration, I danced from 8pm to around 2:30am non-stop. The only time I left the dance floor was to go to the toilet and that only took a minute, so it was pretty much non-stop and my thighs certainly felt it the next morning. Also, my other friend dressed up as Sporty Spice, so whenever a Spice Girl song came on, we got really into it. Speaking of songs, here is the classic Spice up your life:

Stressed Out (Postmodern Jukebox)

Sorry for not writing in ages. The past couple of weeks have been frantic with essays and I have pretty much just been a ghost who:
-wakes up
-does essay stuff
-eat lunch
-more essay stuff
-eat dinner-
more essay stuff
-bed
And for the first time ever, for a whole entire semester, I haven't procrastinated essays or assignments. I've been so on top of things that I have actually surprised myself at how efficient I've been. I've had the occasional essay in the past that I have been able to submit before the due date, but this is a whole new level of efficiency. At the beginning of the semester, I knew it was going to be the most difficult and the most demanding one ever, so I made an action plan for myself. I saw the dreaded 28th October where I had my last essays due... three of them due on the same day, which gave me no ability to leave them all to the last minute like a most of the time do. This semester however, something miraculous happened: I was disciplined! I didn't allow myself any opportunity to fall behind. I made sure I had ample time to do all tasks and assignments, so I wouldn't become stressed out in my FINAL SEMESTER!

That is correct! On the 28th of October I had submitted and completed all my assignments for my degree! And now I'm free!!!!!! At the beginning of the semester I made 'Survivor' my theme song to get me through uni, and now I can say I did survive and I'm so happy. To celebrate, I've spent the past three days going out and spending time with the people I love who I've been a ghost to for the past couple months. On Friday I went to a halloween party (happy halloween by the way) and I went as a vampire (again) so I went from ghost, to undead. I'm planning on spending all of tomorrow doing nothing, because I can (I should have made Bruno Mars' 'Lazy Song' the song of the day) and will hopefully by then become a human being again.

So that brings me to the song of the day, which is Twenty One Pilots 'Stressed Out', however, I just discovered this cover group called Postmodern Jukebox who are amazing, so I decided that for today I'll share their cover version. I love the original so much, but I think everyone knows it (or at least they should- it's brilliant. I love dancing to it and singing along). So, because I've become newly obsessed with Postmodern Jukebox (I only was introduced to them yesterday, so I'm really excited about it), here is their cover, which is completely different. They turn well known songs into jazzy 20's, 30's and 40's versions of them getting different artists to sing and it is incredible! I get so nostalgic for that period of music for some reason, so hearing famous songs in that style is really mind-blowing. This version though, is just so amusing because it sounds nothing like the original.