Music Monday #12

Hello Everyone,
I hope you are getting pumped for Halloween. I know I am. There's a Halloween dance at my school on Saturday and my friends and I are going as The Avengers. Today is Monday which means music is coming your way. I have 2 albums and 2 songs in the line up today.
Let's start off with an album. In my last video I gave you a guess to this artist's name. I said they had been in a music monday before, but concert edition. If you guessed New Kids On The Block then you were right. New Kids released an album earlier this year called 10. It appears to be trying to attract an young crowd with their techno music backing up their vocals and their really almost cheesy love ballads.None the less, I still really enjoy this album. Take a listen for yourself you might actually enjoy them.

           (I couldn't find a video with their full album on it so either go listen to the tracks on YouTube or go to iTunes to hear a preview of the track. Sorry for any inconvenience)

On Friday two artists released their new singles. Little Mix is one of the two artists. They came out with a single called Move. It has a different sound than what their DNA album sounded like but I think it sounds really cool. It took me awhile to get used to the sound because it is so different from what I'm used to hearing with them. I love their voices and their sound. I will admit I have a major girl crush on these lovely ladies from across the pond.  Go check out their new song. It's absolutely amazing.
     

We all know Miley Cyrus whether from her Hannah Montana days or her recent twerking days. But just a few weeks ago she released her most recent album called Bangerz. I looked it up online and my friend Patrick showed me some of the songs and I really actually like her most recent album. I know not many people will find themselves looking up her new album because Miley hasn't had the best reputation recently but take the time to look at the album as if Miley Cyrus was not the artist.

 

Lastly, and almost my favorite is One Direction's new song called Story of My Life. This single was released on Friday (surprising without any part of the fandom leaking it). It's too cute. I am always looking forward to the songs these boys put out mainly because it's always interesting to see how the songs mature as they mature. The soft ballad like beginning draws your ear to see how it's going to progress. Harry is the first one to sing and Niall has two solos. (yes TWO, I know right? he almost never gets a solo let alone two). As the chorus comes closer the song picks up the pace a bit. It's a great song musical and vocally.

I have a quick rant about this song. Yesterday, I was at my friend's house working on a project called DI (Destination Imagination) I started to play this song for one of my friends to see what he thought about it and my two other guys friends make so much noise protesting listening to anything One Direction because they automatically put any of the songs One Direction does into the "It's One Direction singing so it has to be bad" category and that pisses me off. You can like a song by an artist and not like the artist. You can also like the artist and not like a song by them. If people would just give the song a chance and not judge it by whose singing it, you might come to find you might ACTUALLY LIKE THE SONG (shocking I know right). If I can't not like the music you listen you shouldn't be able to not like the music I listen to. Got it? good. 

                               

That's it for this Monday! I'll see you all on Friday for another Feel Good Friday! Hope you enjoy the music whether you like the artist or not. 

~Britt

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Music Monday #11

Hello Everyone,
It's another monday in the year. October 21 the start of another school week, trudging to your classes, going through the motions of school, work or whatever you have to do. Here's some music that might help you go through your week.
First is a song that has been out for a month or two now but it's music video just got released. Cher Lloyd's I Wish. I love this song. It's about feeling insecure because of the girls this guy usually hangs out with. I love it and think it's so catchy.

Next is a song that is so atypical to this band's usual sound. One Republic's Counting Stars is so catchy and I can't wait til I have money in my iTunes account to buy it.

Olly Murs is such a cutie pie as most of us will agree and in his music video for Dance With Me Tonight is no exception. His vocals are amazing and he always has a great music backup.

Lastly is Mike Deleasa's Too Damn Beautiful. I found this song awhile ago and then completely forgot about it. It's such a great song. Mike Deleasa is Danielle Jonas's brother, so show him some love and check out his song.

That's it for Music Monday this week. I'll see you on Wednesday with a homecoming post.
~Britt

Camp Christian Reflection 2013

Hello Everyone,
Every year we have this all school retreat called Camp Christian which allows me to take part in and find new friendships and rekindle old friendships. I love that this retreat allows us to take a day and a half for us to relax from our busy schedules and just relax. The interesting groups are always fun. Henna and Nail Polish is what I took part in this year. A bird on the back of my neck and my nails are painted for the first time in months. I've only been to two out of the four and I don't think there is any better way to spend the middle of October. That day and a half is the most fun I've had in a few months. It's a time when I get to learn more about the Linworth community and the people that make it up. There are a few hooligans that are always fun to watch but then there are the people that always flip the canoe over.(cough..Patrick...cough) I can't imagine anything more awesome than getting to know your fellow classmates better and making new friends. Everybody does amazing in the talent show. Zoe, Rachel, Josh, Neil, Thomas, Mitchell, Andrew, and everyone else who participated in the Talent show did absolutely amazing.
Now it's back to the day to day routine of school and afterschool activities. I had such an amazing time and I can't wait to go back next year.
Take some time this week to see what friends you can make.
~Britt

Music Monday #10

Hello Everyone,
Today I feel extra happy. I sure hope you all do too. I have some pretty awesome songs on the line up for you.
First is Beneath Your Beautiful by Labyrinth and Emeli Sande. I love this song. I think it's so cute and I really hope they play this at homecoming this year. There's not much music backing it up which I believe is the point. They wanted you to focus more on the lyrics and the meaning behind them rather than a sick music track.

   

Second is a song I original did not like. Let Her Go by Passenger. I didn't really like the vocals and the music was okay but not fabulous. Now I love it and it has a great message behind it.

Everyone knows Miley Cyrus's song We Can't Stop and has already made their opinions on it. What if I told you someone made a version of this song that will have you changing your (possibly) negative opinion of it into a positive one? Don't believe me? Well this guy on YouTube ScottBradleeLovesYou has a group on his channel that turns modern dance pop and hip-hop songs into songs from the 20's, 30's 40's 50's and so on. They did a cover of We Can't Stop and it is fabulous. I love it more than the original. The vocals are great, the music matches it well and it's just all around well done. I can't get this version out of my head!

These next two songs I give credit to my friends Julz and Zoe for making me love. We had a poetry assignment to  analyze poetic prosody in songs and the songs that these lovely ladies choose are just amazing.

Julz chose to do the song called Bullet by Hollywood Undead. I fell in love with how much of an oxymoron this song is. It's about someone wanting to commit suicide and yet the music completely contradicts the sad concept. The music is upbeat and happy.

 

Zoe chose a song called Me and The Moon by Something Corporate. I really enjoy the music that accompanies this song.  The Lyrics are very controversial and very graphic. The lyrics together with the music are very complimentary of each other.

That's all the wonderful music I have for you all today. I hope you enjoy listening to these throughout the week. 

See you later this week. 

~Britt

Mini Nordstrom Haul

Hello Everyone,
Happy Friday! I know I usually don't post on Fridays. It seems I don't post anything except my music Mondays but that's changing starting today! I recently went to Nordstrom and bought some things. I put those things in a video to show you.  First off I'm going to apologize for somethings in the video. First is lighting. It was 9:30 at night when I filmed this and I was using lamps as my light source. I am working on getting soft boxes but those probably won't be in my possession until December. Second is all the transitions. There were several things (people coming into my room, people yelling for me, etc) That I had to edit out and so there are a lot of weird transitions. You're probably wondering why I didn't just re-film. Well I did, several times in fact, but I thought this was the best one because of all the energy I had. Third, I would like to apologize for the ending. The only explaination I have for that one is that I was tired. Lastly, I am going to apologize to for the thumbnail that YouTube chose to use. I really need to start taking my own thumbnails

YouTubers To Keep An Eye On

Hello Everyone,
As many of you know, I am a very avid YouTube watcher. I love discovering new YouTubers with under 5,000 subscribers. Today I'm going to tell you some of my favorite YouTube channels all have under 5,000 subscribers (except one YouTuber has like 17,000, I lied I know I'm sorry) .

First is a Canadian kid named Harrison Lee. He messaged me on YouTube asking me to check out his videos. I did and I loved them. I can tell he's gonna be a big YouTuber one day. He talks about things we can all relate to and makes them funny.

http://www.youtube.com/user/whyisthesunharry/videos

Next is an Ohio native. She actually goes to my school and is pretty awesome. She's so funny and I love talking to her in person and watching her videos. Her name is Candace. She was part of a series on SoulPancake called Live a Little and now she runs her own YouTube channel called HunanPenguin.

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrvUa8jWTdOeUYgisTZ7ZiQ

Gracy is from Connecticut and is very funny.  She is 17. Go check her out!

http://www.youtube.com/user/gracyx33/featured

That's all for you today! Make sure to check out all those amazing YouTubers.
~Britt

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