Come on Elieen

I was at a Japanese restaurant last week when this song came up and gosh did it remind me of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and the good times I've had with my bestie. This groovy and dance-worthy song is just the right song for setting my mood for back to school.

Wild Child

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So I've recently discovered this band.  And to be honest, I am drawn first thing by their name.  Wild Child.  Who doesn't want to be a wild child, right?  Only the burdens in life takes the wildness in us all away.  Anyway, their music is so relaxing, kind of indie folk, which is right up my alley.

This is my favorite out of their newest album.  Somebody Else.  It's so light hearted and chill.  I love the story element of it, and I especially love the light conversations in between the lines.  I wish everything was that easy like the lyrics goes.  All the chuckles and laughs and 'I don't really care's.  It just sounds extremely fun and bubbly.  A mood-lifter.

High Highs

Recently, I am loving the mellow and echoey sound of the High Highs.  This Sydney, Australian born (now Brooklyn-based) band is mega-awesome and mega-rad.  Their songs relax and unwind me.  Perfect for the moments of escape from the hectic reality that everybody needs. 

This is the most well-known song by them, played while the credits roll in Pitch Perfect.  And apparently it was in Catfish as well?

This one is my favorite.  It's their cover of Pnau's The Truth, but I love this version way more.  And here's my favorite bit.

You know I met you baby I thought that you were the sun

I felt your presence and your pure warmth shone upon

And then the night fell hard and you were the moon

I rode your waves but I fell too soon

I thought you were the truth

Here is an 30 mins performance by the High Highs.  I love it.

Almost Lover - A Fine Frenzy

Almost Lover- A Fine Frenzy

Your fingertips across my skin

The palm trees swaying in the wind

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You sang me Spanish lullabies

The sweetest sadness in your eyes

Clever Trick

I never want to see you unhappy

I thought you'd want the same for me

Goodbye, my almost lover

Goodbye, my hopeless dream

Can't you just let me be?

So long, my luckless romance

My back is turned on you

I should've known you'd bring me heartache

Almost lovers always do

music: you are my sunshine

Sure all of us have listened to this song in our childhood, and well, it was only last year have I really gotten into this song and really listened to the lyrics.  I've always thought it a happy song because, come on, it's always played in lullaby CDs.  But now I know, the song is kind of sad.  True, the lyrics and words are nothing special, but got to admit, it's a pretty sweet song. 

Lyrics:

The other night dear, as I lay sleeping

I dreamed I held you in my arms

But when I awoke, dear, I was mistaken

So I hung my head and I cried.

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine

You make me happy when skies are gray

You'll never know dear, how much I love you

Please don't take my sunshine away

I'll always love you and make you happy,

If you will only say the same.

But if you leave me and love another,

You'll regret it all some day:

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine

You make me happy when skies are gray

You'll never know dear, how much I love you

Please don't take my sunshine away

You told me once, dear, you really loved me

And no one else could come between.

But now you've left me and love another;

You have shattered all of my dreams:

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine

You make me happy when skies are gray

You'll never know dear, how much I love you

Please don't take my sunshine away

In all my dreams, dear, you seem to leave me

When I awake my poor heart pains.

So when you come back and make me happy

I'll forgive you dear, I'll take all the blame.

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine

You make me happy when skies are gray

You'll never know dear, how much I love you

Please don't take my sunshine away

music: Shannon and the Clams

Looping this song non-stop these days.  I'm beyond happy as my exams are all over woohoo!  And I'm feeling alive again!  Cheers to a long long summer with friends and family, and all new adventures that I'm going to have and new places that I'm going to visit and all that jazz!  I'm all up to groovy and bouncy tunes and smiles and weirdness and coolness and whatever rainbows and sprinkles and glitters that lie ahead of me in the next few months.  Trust me, I'm smiling even in my sleep these days.

I know the song has zero context match with the happiness I'm feeling these days, but AIN'T THE VIDEO COOL AND THE TUNE NIFTY?

Enjoy.

music: kids

Yep, this song is nothing new.  But I still love love love this song for its upbeat melody and for, just for my plain love for Two Door Cinema Club.  Perfect song to blast when you're home alone, and for those rock stars and dancing queens of the shower.

Enjoy.

music: The Neighbourhoods

With my exams approaching and my nerves and tension building up, I just need something to cool me off.   Sweater Weather is the perfect song to play and listen to.  The video is cool and the song is just so chill...

Enjoy.

music: skinny love

I love this song so much.  The melody, the lyrics, all of it.  I still remembered the days when my listening to and favoriting a song just depends solely on the melody itself.     How wrong was I then.   It's easy to find good melodies that please the ears, but not many lyrics can touch the hearts.  Skinny Love is a perfect song to me, a perfect balance between the words and the tune.

The lyrics are beautifully written and one can definitely feel the deep emotions, the hurt, the perplexity and the plea for healing and salvage in the words (just my opinion).  It just, it leaves me speechless every time I listen to it.  The song itself, the way it sound and was sung made me feel so at peace in the heart and soothing to my ears (even when it's about a troubled heart).

Skinny Love- Bon Iver

(I like this better)

Skinny Love -Birdy

Enjoy.

music: Beliver, San Cisco and more

"I'm just a believer that things will get better, take it or leave it, but I don't wanna let it go..." American Authors had became a recent favorite band of mine, and this song especially, makes me so happy.  I feel the song and I feel that it should be the soundtrack of my life.  It's as if I am ready to charge and march on forward to whatever ahead of me.  Believer is just an awesome spirit booster when anyone needs some lifting up on bad days. (admit it, everyone has bad days and, admit it, you love this song.)

"Singing oh la la la oh la la la la...oh la la la oh la la la la..." people are getting sick of me "la la-ing" on all day long but San Cisco's songs are all so catchy and fun it's hard not to be brainwashed by them and hum their songs all day long.  Plus, these four are just such cutie pies and seem so genuine and fun, I'd love to switch lives with them.  Another plus: they make me want to wear patterned shirts.   

" I said pa, I wanna see the world, I wanna see it all, I'm gonna be all that I can be and more."  San Cisco is so cool that I can't just pick one song.

"Who's gonna catch you now, who's gonna catch you now, running so far away so far away..." San Cisco is that awesome that I can't just pick two songs.

Enjoy.