rebecca: The 1975

May 2017 Playlist

by Unknown - 01:52

Hello You Lovely Lot!

It's been a while hasn't it? I'm going to do a whole other blog post on where I am right now (as in, mentally, physically I'm sat in bed...). However, it is that time again! These are my favourite blog posts to write and usually the ones I will write without fail so that's why my blog is bloody full of them. I've been writing these for nearly two years now, so lets have a quick look at May 2016 and what that playlist had on it!

People Help The People – Birdy – Birdy

I Love Me – Thank You – Meghan Trainor

R U Crazy/Labs Swing Version - R U Crazy/Labs Swing Version – Conor Maynard

Hair ft Sean Paul – Hair – Little Mix

Cake By The Ocean – SWAAY – DNCE

She Falls Asleep / Part 2 – Wonderland – McFly

Teenage Dirtbag – Summer – Frank Hamilton & Wheatus

You’re Such A – HAIZ – Hailee Steinfeld

Love Myself – Love Myself – Haille Steinfeld

Mom ft Kelli Trainor – Thank You

Don’t Go Alone – Don’t Go Alone – Bry

A-Punk – Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
Me Too – Thank You – Meghan Trainor – Thank You
Used To Love You – This Is What The Truth Feels Like – Gwen Stefani

Go Do – Go – Jónsi

I Was Here – 4 – Beyoncé

Shooting The Moon – Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky // Extra Nice Edition – OK Go

Champagne Problems – Thank You – Meghan Trainor

Woman Up – Thank You – Meghan Trainor
This Is What You Came For – This Is What You Came For – Calvin Harris & Rihanna

Animal – Habits – Neon Trees

I can assure you all that this month is nowhere near as long as that! So lets get started...

From The Ritz To The Rubble - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys

I don't know why i suddenly fell in love with this again? I think this is possible my favourite song by The Arctic Monkeys. It's just so so catchy and I will always love it. They will always remind me of the year that I thought I was really cool because I'd just learnt to drive and I was drinking a lot. I was someone that deep down I knew that I wasn't. However, despite that, I will always look upon that summer fondly and how I've grown (for example, I've gone from drinking Smirnoff Ice to Gin...so that's a step up).

Favourite Lyric : His way or no way, totalitarian

Somebody Else - I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it - The 1975

I've spoken about this song more than once on this blog. I fall back in love with it every now and then, not that I ever fall out of love with it! I just forget about it for a while. I can relate to this song a lot more at this point in time which is sad I guess? However it does mean that the songs means a lot more and that is probably why it came back in to my life this month.

Favourite Lyric : Our love has gone cold, you're intertwining your soul with somebody else

Sweet Creature - Harry Styles - Harry Styles

Now of course you will be getting a review of this at some point. I had been so busy with exams that I just didn't have time to write one. When I first heard this I was about to go out but I had to have a little cry at how beautiful it was. It's not my favourite on the album but it was one of the only two out at the time I added it to the playlist! I do love it though, one of the most beautiful songs I ever did hear.

Favourite Lyric : Two hearts in one home

Passionfruit - More Life - Drake

Now, I am not a Drake fan, it's just not my type of music but I can appreciate that he's good. However, I heard this somewhere and I thought it was good, then I heard it again in a taxi and I knew I had to find it on Spotify straight away! I think it will always remind me of summer because when I heard it, it was boiling hot. Maybe I should listen to the rest of the album and see what i think, but for now, I love this.

Favourite Lyric : You got issues that i wont mention for now cause we're falling apart.

Slow Hands - Slow Hands (Single) - Niall Horan

I hadn't listened to This Town in such a long time so when I heard that Niall was coming out with a new song I didn't know how to feel. However, I think that this is incredible. I won't lie, when I first heard it I was a bit unsure but after listening a few more times I fell in love. The beat is so good and of course Niall's gorgeous voice. Lovely stuff Mr Horan.

Favourite Lyric : No chance that I'm leaving here without you on me

leaving blues - Torch Songs: Leaving Blues - Lewis Watson

I found this song by accident because I went to listen to Lewis and Spotify comes up with playlists of the best of each artist and the cover for it included the album cover for this which I had never seen before. I found it and discovered that it's a cover of a Bombay Bicycle Club song. I think it is absolutely incredible. I listened to the original but I think I have just got so used to Lewis' voice singing it that it sounded odd to listen to someone else. This is a song I can sing my heart out too and maybe even have a little cry, should I be in the mood.

Favourite Lyric : I miss you indefinite

The Night We Met - Strange Trails - Lord Huron

I was revising whilst listening to a chill Spotify playlist that I can't remember the name of now. This came on and immediately I knew that I had heard the song before. I had listened to the playlist for a few days at this point so I just presumed that I knew it from there. However, when the chorus came I knew that it was from '13 Reasons Why'. I can also relate to this a bit more after this month, but I do think it is a lovely song in general.

Favourite Lyric : I had all, and then most of you, some, and now none of you

Kill The Director - Proudly Present...A Guide To Love, Loss & Desperation - The Wombats

I bloody love The Wombats. My friend Melissa played them to me in college and ever since then I have been obsessed. This is possibly my favourite song by them and also a song I can highly relate to. I think it's just super catchy and also quite comical (but also not funny because my life is like a shit rom-com and that's not funny in the slightest). A song that will truly stay with me forever.

Favourite Lyric : No I don't care about the soaps...though I'm acting like I'm in an Eastenders episode OR Carrots help you see much better in dark, don't talk to girls, they'll break your heart OR This is no Bridget Jones (I love all of the lyrics in this)

The Cave - Sigh No More - Mumford & Sons

I don't know why I've become obsessed with Mumford & Sons recently?! This is the third song of theirs that I have discovered and fallen in love with. I think maybe it's just something different. I also like the fact that the lyrics to this are actually quite depressing but the tune is rather upbeat. Love a good juxtaposition.

Favourite Lyric : The harvest left no fruit for you to eat, you cannibal, you meat-eater OR I will not hear what you have to say cause I need freedom now

Ever Since New York - Harry Styles - Harry Styles

I think that this is my favourite song from the album. I loved it ever since I saw him perform it on a TV show over in America. I think that it is beautiful song writing and if Liam Gallagher is right and his cat can write something better then I would LOVE to hear it. I love the guitar and I love the lyrics and I love Harry Styles.

Favourite Lyric : Almost over, had enough from you

From The Dining Table - Harry Styles - Harry Styles

As we can tel, this is the time when the album came out. This is another one of my favourites. It's the last song on the album and I was waiting for a really sad ballad because we know I love those. Mr Styles did not disappoint and provided us with this beauty. I may have even cried the first time I heard it, it wouldn't surprise me. I also think I nearly flew out of my seat at the lyrics at the beginning. Either way, this is such a lovely song.

Favourite Lyric : Comfortable silence is so overrated

Kiwi - Harry Styles - Harry Styles

This is another one of my favourites, for some reason my other favourite Carolina is not on this playlist?! This is exactly what I expected from the album and I was so glad to hear it. My dad brought me up on a lot of the music that Harry was brought up on so I had a feeling that I would love the album if he was going to write music that was influenced by all of that. Turns out I was right. I also want to know if this is a true story?! Think about it every time I listen to it, which is quite a lot.

Favourite Lyric : When she's alone she goes home to a cactus in her black dress, she's such an actress

Wisdom Teeth - Sleep Is for the Week - Frank Turner

Recently I went to a Frank Turner festival called 'Lost Evenings'. It was four nights at The Roundhouse in Camden, which is an incredible venue by the way, and he played a different set each night. Night Two (I think?! Or night Three?) was 'Sleep Is for the Week' in full. Before I went I had never listened to this album but when he played this song I burst in to tears. Last month was hard and I feel like this song may sum it up? Obviously this is a from a guys point of view so I feel like it's an explanation in some ways? ANYWAY, yeah this is just really beautiful and the lyrics and incredible. Probably one of my favourite Frank Turner songs now!

Favourite Lyric : Every time I repeat the line that 'the faults not mine and I wasn't unkind', the worst part is that I've got nothing else to say

A Decent Cup of Tea - Sleep Is for the Week - Frank Turner

This is a song that I loved when i was wallowing in my own self pity. However, it is such a beautiful song. It is so stripped back, just Frank and his guitar. Sad songs just capture my heart so much, it's just pure, raw emotion and maybe that's why? Also I tend to be moody quite a bit and sadder songs make me much calmer and sometimes you just need a good cry to make yourself feel better, no?

Favourite Lyric : She cries in to her tea, that she's desperately lonely

Poetry Of The Deed - Poetry Of The Deed - Frank Turner

A slightly more upbeat Frank song here. I put Frank on shuffle whilst I was revising not too long ago and this came on. This is another album that I hadn't listened to too much, although i do know a few songs because this is the album with a few of the classics on. This is not a song that coms under that category though! I feel like this is classic Frank Turner and it was very motivational whilst I was revising, so that's always good!

Favourite Lyric : We're exactly what this country needs

So there you have it everyone! There are the songs that I was LOVING last month!

Thanks For Reading!

Becky x

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October Playlist 2016

by Unknown - 03:18

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March 2016 Playlist

by Unknown - 13:52

Hello You Lovely Lot!

Obviously I listen to music all the time but I feel like this month I’ve listened to so much. Maybe that’s because I spent quite a lot o this month on my own (can you hear the violins because I can) so what better way to spend my time than to listening to music? I tend to use iTunes more than Spotify nowadays so I’ll try to get back in to using Spotify because I love writing these posts and looking back on the songs that I’ve loved!

Boy Without A Car – Wake Up – The Vamps

Kind of half way through this month I found out that my friend Amy would come and see The Vamps with me! I love The Vamps and even though Amy doesn’t I’m still so excited. So, I decided to give their album more of a listen (even though I am already head over heels in love with it). This wasn’t a song that I particularly loved when I first listened to the album because it just didn’t grab me like some of the others! However, it is probably now one of my favourites on the album. This was on last months playlist too which just goes to show how much I really have enjoyed it!

Favourite Lyric : 'I don't know how we got this far, I'm just another boy without a car'

Somebody Else – Somebody Else (single) – The 1975

This is another one that was on last months post too and even though it is on this playlist, I only really listened to it at the beginning of the month. Although I won’t turn it off when it comes on, I don’t necessarily go to play it voluntarily now! However, I still stand by the fact that it is a lovely song although I also stand by the fact that I liked the live version I found on YouTube more.

'Favourite Lyric : 'So I took all my things that make sound, the rest I can do without'

NO – Thank You – Meghan Trainor

Natalie sent this to me because Meghan Trainor is our girl (not literally, that would be weird). We loved her first album so much so when I heard that this was a new song I was on it as soon as I had a spare minute! I don’t think I was 100% sure when I first heard it, maybe because it’s not her typical sound I guess? However, now it’s something that I play all the time and pretty much know every single word. I think it will always remind me of my time in Berlin because me and Natalie danced around to it a fair few times.

Favourite Lyric : 'Call me beautiful, so original'

Cheater – Wake Up – The Vamps

This is now at the top of my ’25 most played’ songs on iTunes! The minute this came out I loved it and I hadn’t listened to it in ages but when I found out that I was going to see the boys live I played it again and my obsession started to grow once more. This was in my October and November favourites which I think is a first for me to still be so obsessed with something after so long. I think this is the song I’m most excited to see live and I will be singing my heart out to every single word.

Favourite Lyric : 'All his dirty secrets are banging on the bedroom floor, you know she aint a friend at all'

R U Crazy – R U Crazy (Single) – Conor Maynard

I’ve loved this song for a while and I can’t remember how I first found it but when I found out that Conor was one of the supports for The Vamps I jumped straight back on it. This song also makes me think of Natalie because we both went through a stage of just loving it. I don’t know many songs by Conor so I think I really need to listen to all of his music before I see him (not that I’ve got much time left).

Favourite Lyric : 'Nothing sounds better than 'hit the road jack''

Worry – Wake Up – The Vamps

This is another one of my favourites from this Vamps album and I think it always has been. I told Amy I might cry if they play this but she told me she would leave so not sure how that’s gonna go down. I listen to this pretty much every day on the way to Uni and back or just sat in my room. It’s one that I can really sing a long to and I don’t really care who hears to be honest. I just think it’s a beautiful song and I don’t really know what else to say. Go and give it a listen!

Favourite Lyric : 'Who shuts the curtain now I'm gone?'

I Write Sings Not Tragedies – A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out – Panic! At The Disco

I don’t know why but one night I decided I should listen to this lot. My friend Maddie used to love them and I never really got the hype (mainly because I never listened to them) but now that I’ve seen a few more people raving about them I decided that I should look in to them! This was the only song that I downloaded but I’m glad I did! I haven’t decoded whether it’s my usual type of music to be honest because although I love my One Direction and my Little Mix I also like heavier stuff like GreenDay and Frank Turner so my iTunes is a real mix of genres. All I know is that I enjoy this song!

Favourite Lyric : 'Haven't you people ever heard of closing the god damn door?'

Disconnected – She Looks So Perfect (Single) – 5 Seconds of Summer

I am also seeing 5SOS next month high pitched SCREAM. I looked at the setlist for the European tour and saw that this was on it so, since I didn’t know it too well, I thought it would be a good idea to listen to it and all of a sudden I loved it! I don’t know all of the words yet but every time I listen to it I know a little bit more so hopefully come the actual concert I’ll know it off by heart. Definitely an unsung hero this song.

Favourite Lyric : 'We get so disconnected'

Another World – Meet The Vamps – The Vamps

I love this album so much and I had just forgotten about it (how very dare I, I am appaled with myself I have to say). This album was pretty much my 2014 soundtrack and when I listen to it now I still love every single song. Especially this one. I just think it is beautifully written and beautifully sang too (as is every song by The Vamps). When I went to see them live last time they played this and I just absolutely loved it so I’m really hoping that there will be a similar situation on the 5^th of April!

Favourite Lyric : 'People like to talk, but I can't understand a word'

Here – Four Pink Walls – Alessia Cara

Natalie has loved this girl for ages so when her album came out on Spotify I knew that I had to listen to it and I was instantly hooked by this song. I think I already knew it from somewhere, maybe it was Natalie sending me snapchats? I don’t know. I think the fact I already knew it a bit made it even more appealing and I think I only listened to one other song from the album (which I also loved) because I just wanted to listen to this again and again.

Favourite Lyric : 'Somewhere in the corner under clouds of marijuana'

U.N.I - + - Ed Sheeran

This is such an old song but was always one of my favourites on this album. I’m not sure what made me listen to this album again, I think I was at Uni and feeling a bit low. So, what do you do when you’re low? You listen to sad songs that make you feel even lower but also somehow make you feel happier. This is one of those songs for me for whatever reason but I think Ed Sheeran in general is good for those moods.

Favourite Lyric : 'I don;t cry tears of missing you anymore, they're more like tsunami tides in my eyes'

Grown – Get Weird – Little Mix

This was kind of a song I listened to on and off throughout the month. When I was on the plane to and from Berlin I was feeling a bit anxious so I put this on and it calmed me down no end. I guess it just made me feel empowered maybe? I would love to see this but unfortunately, as of yet, I have no tickets to go and see Little Mix. This album has definitely been a soundtrack for 2016 so far for me, this song especially.

Favourite Lyric : 'It's funny how the tables turned'

Risk It All – Meet The Vamps – The Vamps

This was another ‘Uh Oh I haven’t listened to this song in ages better scrub up on my lyrical knowledge ‘ song and I think I’d forgotten just how much I used to love this song. It’s just so beautiful to me for whatever reason. Maybe it’s the lyrics, maybe it’s Brad’s angelic voice? We may never know ladies and gentlemen. I can’t remember if they played this the last time I saw then but if they did I can tell you that it was brilliant and if they didn’t then I would have been highly upset since it was a favourite from day one.

Favourite Lyric : 'I'd rather crash I'd rather crawl'

So, there we have it! That's all the music I've been loving this month and probably the music I'll be loving next month too...

Thanks For Reading!

Becky x

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