~4th April~ Music Meme Day 24

Yo yo yo!

Today's song is a Song You Would Want To Play At Your Funeral. And it was a such a toughie it took two days to come up with an answer. But I  think I've cracked it.

Given my personality, I don't tend to think about my funeral all that often. Well, in case of an in-college death due to work overload or angry lecturers I have left my friends with a vague funeral plan but ironically no musical selection. I wanted something big but not the usual Bette Midler/Sarah Maclaughlin/Josh Groban, so I really had to think about this. I eventually came up with to the conclusion I had to turn to the world of musical theatre. And I think I found something sufficiently heart-breaking and beautiful in 'I'll Cover You (Reprise)' from the musical Rent:

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Tomorrow: A Song That Makes Me Laugh

See you then,

Katie

xx      

~2nd April~ Music Meme Day 23

And so the catch up continues:

Today song is A Song You Want To Play At Your Wedding. Now this one, is a a bit vague. I didn't understand if it was the song I wanted to walk down the aisle to, or the first dance or something... so I went with the father-daughter dance. I'll admit it, I'm a complete Daddy's Girl. He's grumpy and miserable most of the time, but I'd have never learnt or cook or keep my gadgets in working order without him. I love him to pieces and that's why I chose 'I Loved Her First' by Heartland

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Tomorrow: A Song That You Want People To Play At Your Funeral.

See you then,

Katie

xx  

~1st April~ Music Meme Day 22

I really should stop leaving this thing to the last minute, because I've still got catching up to do.

So yesterday's song was A Song You Listen To When Your Sad. Again, if you've been reading this blog I've stated that my state of mind gets reflected on my musical selections. When I'm sad however, yes I'll listen to sad songs, but I have a specifically prepared playlist filled with songs with the theme of picking yourself up and moving on. And personal favourite of this type of song is Trading Yesterday's 'Shattered':

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Tomorrow: A Song That You Want To Play At Your Wedding

See you then,

Katie

xx

P.S. I apologise for the lack of any April Fool's Prank for you folks. I've been absolutely buried under college work. Maybe next year.   

~30th March~ Music Meme Day 21

And we continue into Day 2 sans videos...

Today's song is A Song I Listen To When I'm Happy. Hmmm. Difficult. As I said yesterday, I'm a generally happy person and my musical style tends to reflect that, so when I'm very happy indeed, I tend to have a higher tolerability for exceptionally cheesy music. Hence my fascination with jpop. Most of the time I'm smart enough to turn it off before my brain leaks out my ear, but there's these time when I can just shut off my brain for 5 - 10 mins and revel in all its fake, cutesy glory. And I think this is best summed up with 'Ai no Imi wo Oshiete' by W (or Double You, whichever you prefer)    

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Tomorrow: A Song You Listen To When You're Sad

See you then,

Katie

xx

~29th March~ Music Meme Day 20

I really don't know what's worse... a weekend without internet, or a week without YouTube or TGWTG.

But our internet company is doing tests on our new connection for the next 10 days, meaning I can't stream any information without shutting off the internet for the whole house. Gaaaaaaah. Which means I have to do the rest of this meme half at home and half at college for the time being. 

Anyways, today's song is A Song You Listen To When You Get Angry. Now this is a toughie for two reasons. One, I only get angry on very rare occasions. And two, the majority of my music collection is specifically chosen to keep me happy and bubbly at all times. So I guess I'm going to have delve back into the Dark Days to pick a song. Now back then, I was lot more verbally aggressive and bitchy - think permanent P.M.S - and I think this was reflected in my music selection. I barely remember what I used to listen to, but I definitely remember listening to a lot of Linkin Park and this song especially when I was in my Grumpy Bear mode. Here's 'Breaking the Habit' by Linkin Park:

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(Here's where I should be making additional intelligent and witty comments about the song and the video, which I can't do without watching the video.)

Tomorrow: A Song You Listen To When You're Happy

See you then,

Katie

xx

~28th March~ Music Meme Day 19

Next up, A Song From My Favourite Album.

Now I'm going to be blunt, I love film soundtracks and think they are the greatest thing since sliced bread. They somehow manage to underscore the greatest moments and console me in my worst. I worship the works of the delightfully quirky Danny Elfman and the master of musical awesomeness that is Hans Zimmer. He's scored some of the most amazing soundtracks like Inception, The Nolan Batman franchise and the Pirates trilogy / soon to be quadroligy.

But my favourite has to be the Lion King soundtrack and this song leaves me awestruck every time. Here's 'This Land' by Hans Zimmer:    

Hamlet has never sounded so awesome.

Next: A Song That You Listen To When You're Angry

See you then,

Katie

xx

~28th March~ Music Meme Day 18

Next up, A Song I Wish I Heard On The Radio. 

Now I tend to listen to the radio most in the summer, when I'm helping my daddy out in the garden or at the occasional picnic. But my favourite type of summer music isn't the big dance hits, it's the generic 'white guy with an acoustic guitar' type of songs, like 2010's smash hit 'Hey Soul Sister' by Train. I find these songs really happy and charming to listen to as they brighten my day. That's why I've chosen one of my favourite white guy acoustic songs: 'I'm Yours' by Jason Mraz. 

Next: A Song From Your Favourite Album

See you then,

Katie

xx

~28th March~ Music Meme Day 17

And so we continue,

The next song is A Song You Often Hear On The Radio. But Katie, I hear you cry. Don't you hate pop music on the radio? The answer, dear reader is no, don't make assumptions like that, sillyface. There are some songs I like that are currently on the radio. Like this one for example. 

Here's 'Dynamite' by Taio Cruz  

As you can probably tell I like 'turn your brain off and enjoy' type music. 

Next: A Song That You Wish You Heard On The Radio

See you then,

Katie

xx

~March 28th~ Music Meme Day 16

Oh. My. God!

Sweet, sweet internet! How I hath missed thee!

So uh, yeah. My internet's been down for three of four days, so now I have a lot of catching up to do.

So, the theme for what would have been Thursday was A Song That I Used To Love But Now Hate. Now this is easy. Back in the Dark Days of my 'goth phase' -which I hope never to go to detail into on this blog- , I used to love this fresh new band who were loud and bouncy and awesome. They were perfect for me. But then they got popular... and this song played over and over and over and over. And people started to obsess over this band which annoyed me. And then to twist the knife they only went and did the Twilight soundtrack. It was then that I lost all respect for them.


I give you 'Misery Business' by Paramore:
     

Next: A Song That You Often Hear On The Radio

See you then,

Katie

xx

~23rd March~ Music Meme Day 15

I'm tired again.. must focus. Tomorrow starts in 5 mins...

So, today is a song that describes me. Now I came across this song when it was attached to a Cardcaptor Sakura amv (God I used to love that anime back when it was Cardcaptors on Fox Kids!). After hearing it I looked up the lyrics and I ended up finding a list of components that would make a Katie, oddly enough. That doesn't make sense, I know. But if you really know me well and listen to this song, maybe you'd agree with me. I dunno, just a theory, really. 

Here's 'Who I Am' by Jessica Andrews:  

Tomorrow: A Song That You Used To Love But Now Hate.

See you then,

Katie

xx


P.S. Nice frame capture there YouTube. Epic. Fail.

~22nd March~ Music Meme Day 14

Hey y'all,

So today is a Song No-one Would Expect You Love. Now if you know we well, or catch my rants at dinner (My apologies to those people. I must sound very silly), I have a natural aversion to the Top 40 charts and tend to dislike most pop music because it's either, very stupid, very generic, very auto-tuned or any combination of the three. However, this song caught my attention and I instantly fell in love. It's the story of a nerdy boy who pines for a money-grubbing girl but ultimately wins in the end, proving that 'The Geek Shall Inherit' after all. 

Here's 'F**k You' or 'Forget You', if you prefer by Cee Lo Green:

  

I love this song, but I especially love this video. It's so vintage it hurts! I love the whole 50's vibe to it all with the cute little pop ups and that adorable kid playing Baby Cee Lo. Although I am slightly perplexed out-of-place 60's doo-wop / Greek chorus girls.

Tommorow: A Song That Describes Me.

See you then,

Katie

xx

~21st March~ Music Meme Day 13

I'm just going to come right out and say it. 

My name is Katie... and I am a Ke$ha fan.

I know, I know dear readers, I haven't gone mad. Yet. There's so many things I should hate about her: her vapid, blonde, 'party girl' personality, her wailing auto-tuned voice, that stupid dollar sign wedged in the middle of her name... But I honestly couldn't care less.   

I like Ke$ha's songs in the same way people like cheesily bad action films, they're big, they're loud, they're brainless and most of all, fun. They're exactly what I need after a hard day's work, just something I can enjoy by shutting my brain off and not having to analyse everything all the time. Now this song quickly became a personal favourite after I saw it get a bashing from Todd In The Shadows on That Guy With The Glasses (The review can be found here.), he really let loose on it but I found sufficiently happy and bouncy to soundtrack the majority of last summer. Here's 'Your Love Is My Drug' by Ke$ha:

       

Tomorrow: A Song That No-one Would Expect You To Love

See you then,

Katie

xx

~20th March~ BABY hits the runway!

Dearest blog-chan,

This is probably really old news by now any self-respecting lolita buff, but Baby The Stars Shine Bright have finally rolled out their Spring/Summer collection! I recently came across the video of the runway show on one of my favourite lolita blogs, Lolita Charm (You don't know how badly I covet her wardrobe!). 

Anyways, onto the show. The theme of this spring's show is most definitely fairytales, with princesses and ruffles and lace everywhere to be seen. As Victoria of Lolita Charm has pointed out, it appears that Baby has tried to reinvent famous fairytale figures like Snow White, Alice and Hansel and Gretel and I couldn't agree more. And between you and I, blog-chan, I think some of these opulent details may be sneaking into my summer collection... I mean, what fashion designer hasn't borrowed elements from their competition?

    

Some trends I have fallen in love with:

    - Flower garlands/halos - These'd look so cute on a country lolita or for a sweet picnic co-ord.

- Flowing Rococo-style sleeves - It's really wonderful to see Rococo making a comeback.

- Chocolate coloured blouses - Such a cute alternative to white blouses. They'd look great with most pastels, but especially as part of a Melty Chocolate themed co-ord.

- Straw bonnet hat - A really refreshing classical/sweet take on the typical summer boater.

- Co-ordinating bodice pieces - An interesting way of switching between jsk and a skirt. 2 in 1 ftw!

- Rococo styled fan - Ideal for the summer. Could be easy to DIY one for myself. 

- Rococo style hat/headdresses - Marie would be proud of that lacey, rosey feathered wonder!

*sigh* There's just some more things I'll never be able to afford. But I honestly can't wait to see some of these beauties hitting Daily-Lolita or the website for that matter. 

See you soon,

Katie

xx  

     

~20th March~ Music Meme Day 12

Salut!

Today's song is a Song From A Band You Hate. And do you know what kind of bands irritate me the most? Man Bands. You know the ones. The boys bands you vaguely remember (if you are about my age) that suddenly come back and annoy the hell out of you for another couple of years until they eventually fade into obscurity again. The ones with the middle aged fangirls. The ones that JUST. WON'T. DIE!!!! D:<

*sigh*

So today's pick is the king of the unkillable, Take That. And the song? It's 'The Flood', because it's the one that has annoyed the most after the menopausal fan-girls and the pressed kicked up a fuss about a certain decent solo artist coming back to where he started. Grrr...

Tomorrow: A Song That Is A Guilty Pleasure

See you then,

Katie

xx

~19th March~ Music Meme Day 11

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii,

Gah. Why do I always leave these things to last minute? Tonight's song is a Song From A Band You Like and to tell the truth, I'm not a massive fan of today's bands because they're all pretty sucky. But this band, was pretty damn cool when I was a youngun but unfortunately puberty wasn't as kind to their music as it was to me. Here's 'Five Colours In Her Hair' by McFly:

Oh so cute and colourful, this video delighted by sugar riddled brain and as it turned out they took their name from what would be one of my favourite movies. And a contrast, here's 'Party Girl':

What. The. Hell. Is. This?! Why aren't today's tweens enjoying the same flavour of colours pop rock I was raised on? Ah yes, of course. The Disney corporation and Mr. Beiber control the radio. That seemed to slip my mind.

Tomorrow: A Song From A Band I Hate. Oh, which shall it be? I wonder...

See you then,

Katie

xx

  

~18th March~ Music Meme Day 10

Wow, I'm stupid.

So instead of 10 minutes, I left a 2-3 hour posting gap between them... Oh well. What would have been today's song is A Song You Can Fall Asleep To. So, during my GCSE revision period I had managed to stress myself out to the point of insomnia and the occasional 2am flick through my Physics book to try and bore myself to sleep... which naturally didn't work. Then, I found this guy on YouTube called Paul Collier, who writes these amazingly relaxing piano pieces which promised easy sleep. And God was he right! I woke up the next morning, well before my alarm, bright and full of energy. I, of course wanted to learn his secret. 

He uses these special sounds called 'alpha waves'. So in one ear of my headphones I would hear one frequency but the other ear I hear a different one and the two work together in relaxing the brain. Or something along those lines.

With that scientific ramble over, here's 'Rosey' by Paul Collier.         

Seriously, go check out his work. You will not be disappointed.

Tomorrow: A Song From A Band You Like.

See you then,

Katie

xx

~18th March~ Music Meme Day 9

Well, being the idiot that I am, I was too busy to stick a quick post in for the thirty day meme. So today is going to be a two for one. Aren't I generous? <3

So Day 9 is A Song You Can Dance To. Well, this is pretty easy for once. When all else fails, and I'm stressed out, I just go Gaga.

What else can I say but 'Just Dance'? 

Tomorrow, and by tomorrow I mean in 10 mins: A Song You Fall Asleep To.

See you then,

Katie

xx

~16th March~ Music Meme Day 8

Pie-ya! Like a samurai bitches :D

Today's theme is A Song You Know All The Words To. Now today, I'm gonna have to get sneaky and cut corners. Why? I have the ability to pick up lyrics pretty quickly, so by the third or forth listen, the lyrics are in my head. It's a blessing and a curse. Unfortunately, I end up learning the lyrics of the CONSTANTLY repeating pop music I hear on music TV channels or the radio as well as my own music. So instead, I have chosen a song I am desperate to learn the lyrics to 'It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)' by R.E.M. 

    

For when I have learnt these lyrics, then I shall be truly awesome. :D

Tomorrow: A Song You Can Dance To. 

See you then,

Katie

xx 

~15th March~ Music Meme Day 7

*yawn*

I'm sleepy... so nothing intelligent to say tonight. Day 7 is A Song That Reminds Of A Certain Event, which is pretty easy. For the past few summers, I've been going on an outing to the local park titled 'The Best Day Ever' in which me and my friend Shannon (Whose blog is here btw.) spend the whole day blowing bubbles, eating cake of some description and just generally being goofballs. 'Tis fun.

So in preparation for the Best Day Ever 2011, I give you... well, 'The Best Day Ever' from the Spongebob soundtrack. :D

Tomorrow: A Song You Know All The Words To

See you then,

Katie

xx

~14th March~ Music Meme Day 6

Aloha!

Today, A Song That Reminds Me Of Somewhere. This one is easy. Cast your collective mind back to October when I posted about my outing in Margam Park titled 'Welly Walks'. There was one moment standing around this fountain here: 

(People's faces are blurred for privacy. That and they'd kill me otherwise.)

We were trying to recreate the Friends opening but SOME of us *ahem* don't actually know the opening sequence. It was still fun to clap like an idiot though. So today's some is 'I'll Be There For You' by The Rembrants, or if you will, The Theme From Friends. 

   

Tomorrow: A Song That Reminds You Of A Certain Event.

See you then,

Katie

xx