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)