I heard that you like the bad girls honey, is that true?

Come and take a walk on the wild side
Let me kiss you hard in the pouring rain
You like your girls insane
Choose your last words
This is the last time
Cause you and I, we were born to die

She has been described my a certain over-confident american celebrity as a "12 year old girl practicing singing nursery rhymes in her bedroom", she has been scrutinized, complimented and her career talked of by every pessimist and optimist in the music world. Yet it is safe to say that her luscious locks, rose stained lips and sultry  voice have secured her stardom. Lana Del Ray is a bona fide icon of the 10's. In an interview with Lana she says that interviewing, performing and making music videos has really opened up her eyes to how people view her right off the back of one decision she makes. She says that stage character "Lana" and the real "Lizzy" are very much the same person, and that the "sonic and visual world "she created for Lana was like an art project for her. She says her music doesn't feel like work because making time for herself is making time for her music. I love this vision she has and the calm and collected way she presents it to us.

Keep making me laugh, let's go get high

I like her confidence as a performer, the oddness behind her eyes as she sits in the throne in music video "Born to Die" and the way she holds such an intense note for so long. There is no Christina Aguilera wavering voice that makes you shiver to your core, this young artist can sing and sing well. While we're mentioning Born To Die, I'll get the very girly giddiness out of the way first... HOW UNBELIEVABLY HOT IS THAT GUY IN THE VIDEO? 

Ok so gathering my thoughts and moving on. Miss Elizabeth Woolridge Grant is an American singer/songwriter, if you hadn't guessed already with her american flag sweatshirts and stars&stripes backgrounds. She talks of her album and says that her reoccurring obsessions and themes are honoring love even when its lost and staying strong in the midst of true love lost. She goes on to say her music should inspire people to stay hopeful and soft when things get difficult and hard for everyone as they do. I do like that comments like this are so full of depth and meaning, but I also like that she hasn't got wrapped up in the feelings behind the song too much. Whether she's performing or interviewing she stays very cool, I really look forward to seeing her do well in the future and hope all the pretentious negative press won't stop her successes!

Below I've posted "Born To Die", "Video Games" "Elvis". Enjoy the beautiful Nancy Sinatra of our time x

Living a poppers fueled fantasy

 It's safe to say that when I walk, I bob. But you could honestly call me Bukaroo at the moment, commuting on 2 buses and 2 trains a day to work 2 jobs sometimes 6 days a week. Hells teeth. I've got all the 'necessities' stuffed into my velvet rucksack, keys and train pass falling out of one pocket and my falling to bits (piece of shit) phone and ipod crammed into the other. But there's only one reason to explain the bobbing, my beloved earphones that hang round my neck like staple jewelry AND this song........

I posted about Metronomy ages ago, I watched them on the telly and fell in love with the beardy cute lead man ages ago, I added them to the playlist "Just Good" ages ago. But they're still playing a big role as an extra in my busy little life that could be described as being like a poppers filled fantasy at the moment. I only get my kicks from the dream world though, there are no judgements and miserable people there! So this song fits in perfectly, "Everything goes my way", good God its good isn't it? The lyrics;

Why give it up on you, 

When you pushed me aside, three weeks I cried

You shot a hole in my heart straight through

I don't know, it's either the way she sings them or what they could mean to me, but does it chuffing matter? Probably not. But I just love the song, the lyrics describe how when they're apart they give up on eachother sometimes, but the moment they're officially 'back together' they just fall in love again like its a thing to be, or something to be apart of. Its an odd little concept but I like it, falling in and out of love with someone sounds familiar to me! 

Now todays post isn't about the band, the artists and the descriptions, just a few songs crammed into one little post to list a few of my favourites that I personally and pretentiously think everyone in the whole wide world of my limited number of facebook friends and followers should be listening to. So I would like to list a a few more that I want to do a full write up on when I get a chance (maybe tomorrow? yeh tomorrow); 

"Gotye feat. Kimbra - Somebody that I used to know" - unbelievably addictive, the first few seconds you feel like you're tuned into a baby channel, but you quickly change your feelings when you here the sultry voice of lead singer Wouter De Backer.

"Lianne La Havas feat Willy Mason - No room for doubt" - the quality of the recording is so good I feel like I'm listening to her sing in my ear or like I'm playing the track on a record player with all the crackles and the pops that such a beautiful piece would give to us so willingly.

Think I'm just about done, signing off very much looking forward to my day off tomorrow fun filled with a bike ride, a yoga class and an afternoon of baking. Definitely winning! Grace x