Vampire Weekend (Makeup Blog)

I first discovered Vampire Weekend when I was in eight grade. People got back from ACL and so many people were talking about and wearing their shirts. (Which by the way was sooooo cute. I wish I got one)
So that night I listened to a couple of their songs like Holiday and I Think Ur A Contra and I kinda liked it. I thought Holiday was super catchy and I would catch myself humming it. I Think Ur A Contra was relaxing but a little boring.

Fast forward like a few more months and I'm in Hollister and I hear this super chill song and I'm like whaaaat. It really stuck out to me because usually Hollister has the most headache inducing songs. So I took out my phone and shazamed it and I was really surprised that it was by Vampire Weekend! Then a few seconds later the manager came up to me and asked me "Do you go to school near here? Are you interested in a job? How old are you?" (I was almost fifteen lol) At that exact moment I decided this was going to be my lucky song.

So when I got home I played it non-stop. It was repeat 24/7. I fell asleep to it and I woke up to it. I was seriously obsessed. My parents probably wanted to kill themselves. But yeah, It made me want to try Horchate so badly. (I later had it at a kite festival and almost threw up ugh) I took 3 test during that week and I aced every single one. I was convinced this was my lucky song.

Then my phone got stolen on that Friday. Everything along with my obsession with that song was gone. The only reason I'm blogging about it today is because it was mentioned in class and flashbacks came.

Lana Del Rey

Yet another blog post about Lana! I can't get over her songs though! Even if I ever did want to stop listening to her, I wouldn't be able to escape her. She is E V E R Y W H E R E. Everyone tweets about how perfect she is, they instagram pictures her face with the caption "omfg shes perf" or "why can't i be her?!" and/or I see the little spotify notification on facebook of songs that they're currently listening to her.

I don't know If I already said this but her album Born To Die Paradise Edition is sooooo good. I can't stop listening to her on repeat. I love how she drags out her voice. It makes her very unique from other singers.

My favorites Blue Velvet, Cola, and Serial Killer. I am currently listening to Serial Killer on repeat. Her voice sounds soooo amazing in it. 

The Ramones

They were bad and good if that's even possible. I would listen to it if it was playing but I wouldn't necessary go and download it. I couldn't really understand them but they were really, really catchy. I didn't stop humming it until Friday :morning. All their songs kinda sound the same though. Also I had no idea they were American because they sound very British and at times I couldn't understand them at all. The only song that I knew by The Ramones is 'Hey Ho, Let's Go'.

Seventh Grade Music

This week I went back to my seventh grade playlist and I almost died. I listened to the weirdest things. Everything is about death, cannibals, and murder. I liked bands like Avenged Sevenfold and Slipknot and I would buy their shirts from Hot Topic.  

wtf was I thinking

Anyways the most repeated song I have from my playlist is a song by Avenged Sevenfold called A Little Piece Of Heaven. It is nine minutes long and super duper creepy! It's about a guy who kills a girl so she can't reject his hand in marriage. He stabs her and then proceeds to do her corpse. The girl comes back as like a zombie thing and stabs him and they both go to hell and get married. Like I said it was weird and I was creepy. The awkward thing is I would sing this aloud. 

watch this video if you're not easily creeped out 

but if you are then awkwarrrrd 

Led Zeppelin

One guy looked like Blake Anderson from Workaholics 

I didn't really like what we were watching in class today. It was kinda boring. They sung the entire time and didn't really do anything else. It was also really loud at times and it gave me a really bad headache. 

She's Leaving Home

I know I already blogged about the Sgt. Pepper album but I can't help that I have fell in love with this song all over again. I forgot about this song until I was stalking my own facebook and I found this gem. My friend Sean showed me this in 8th grade and I was so hooked. It was sad but I loved the melody. I love how Paul Mcartney sings the words in the background like we gave her most of our lives, homeeeee, byee byee. It really adds to the song. I think it's a cello that is playing but omg it is so beautiful. I can't even begin to say how much I love it. Also I didn't know that this was based on a true story! Idk I'm just in love with this song and it's been on repeat this whole entire week. 

Joni Mitchell

When you first showed us this album I was like ehhh... but then once she starting to hit high notes I was like WOOOWZA! Me and Pj were like dang that's legit! There was something about each and every song that I liked. I'm going to blog about my top three moments.

1) River- the jingle bell intro was so nice. I love how she sang "It's coming on Christmas, They're cutting trees. They're putting up reindeer and singing songs of joy and peace." Also when she sang fly and she went up I was like jadkfhdskjfhjsdkfjksdhfjksdhf what the heck that is so good!

2) My Old Man- wow. I love everything about this song. The way she sings it and how easily she goes up and down is amazing. It's my favorite song on the album. In love with the very beginning and the very end.

3) California- It made me miss California so much. I felt like this song spoke to me and Kinzy the most. I see California as my home as well. The way she sings California is gorgeous! I will totally download this for the airport ride to Cali this year.

Thanks for introducing her to me Mr.A!