Tales of Ordinary Madness

"Yes I can see, cos every girl in here wants to be her... Cos she's a Diva, I feel the same and I want to meet her"

"Sorry if my voice is sounding a little croaky today ladies and gents, I'm feeling very fragile after I drank far too much last night"

Is how Paloma opened her set at V Festival, cheering and close to screaming her name me and the girls looked on at this wonderful, glamorous being. I'd always admired her music and her look (when i had auburn hair it was based solely on Paloma, so i dyed it... then all i got was "Ohhh wow grace, you just look like Florence!!" FUCK. I should have sported a redder lipstick and stunning fairytale dresses. Maybe not emphasised my pale skin and acted like a hippy! Either way, her look is the ultimate of how I wish I could dress, but I'll have to wait til I move to London......where I go to uni if you wear a headscarf or anything that wasnt from TopShop then you are "quirky" HENCE why i return to Leeds every weekend to work.

Favourite outfits? Her red dress at V has a detatchable head-dress that turned into an umbrella, the metal dress above and overall her classic 50's sweetheart/pin up girl looks we see on her weekly! Teach me! Ha.

Paloma Paloma Paloma......

I must go through just some of the songs I like, it would only be fair not only to Paloma but to me. I know this album inside out.. why? I used to work at a cute little clothes boutique and my glamorous boss asked me who she thought would be good to play in the shop, I said Paloma and bought her the album the same week. We literally had it on repeat every Saturday and I never got bored, I just sadly knew what song and even what note played next! So....

Play On & Smokes and Mirrors & Tales of Ordinary Madness

Favourites of the album, for the hairbrush holding girls this is one to wear your PJs and dance round the bedroom to. Not saying me and Sophie have ever had a few wines and thought we were Whitney Houston or anything, but we might have put this album on and rushed to the shower. The feel of this song is almost haunted for me, a Moulin Rouge vintage theme with Paloma's modern flair added to it to make it contemporary. Yes, I used the word contemporary. Got to put some of this 9 grand degree I've got to some use havn't I?

Do you want the truth or something beautiful?

"I didn't want to speak the honest truth, so I spit out lies that aim to sooth"

Beautifully written lyrics on a relaxing melody, I love this song for the passion in her voice towards the end of the song. When I say her perform she wasn't only a singer, she acted, she danced and perfomed the entire album - and we loved it!

Sexy Minx
She quite cutely insulted fans of David Guetta at V Festival, but said she was a fan of the song. Me and the girls looked at eachother not really knowing what to expect, but when she started I felt overwhelmed with excitement. Her performance was stunning and the way she sung the lyrics made all of us tingle...Just brilliant.

New York

Time to confess? Ok... when she started singing this song I might have turned to Sophie and said "This song is actually about me" I am NOT going to go into the guy this is about but the moment I said it I regretted it as Sophie's beaming face laughed in my face! I love the music video for this song too, very American sweetheart

girl, bowling alleys and prom dresses.

Last one, I know I do go on....

Stone Cold Sober

"I'm in a whole other dimension dancing doubles on the floor"

Before she hit the charts I'd come across this song on a late night Chanel 4 music programme, she wasn't as big in my eyes as she is now.. but I knew when I heard it it would make it big.. The lyrics are very truthful which I love, I always think about a night I was out and high on nothing but happiness. No alcohol fuelling my confidence, and an ex came over to me and dramatically grabbed my shoulders and said "Grace you've had too much to drink, you're buzzing around full of I don't know what" Being stone cold sober and telling him the reason I was so happy was because we weren't togetheer would have been a lovely thing to say... good thing I said it then wasn't it. Poor boy look very disheartened!

Anyway guys and girls, have a little listen to the songs below and most definitely buy her album, she's fab!

FiftysAtHeart xx