My Top 17

My top 17
1. Sleepy cats song – Tom Fletcher
2. I knew you were trouble – Taylor Swift
3. Army of two – Olly Murs
4. Running through rivers – Carrie Fletcher
5. Good Morning – Alex Day
6. She will be loved – (cover) Carrie Fletcher
7. This Kiss – Alex day
8. Doctor what – Charlie McDonnell
9. The Big Bang 2 – Charlie McDonnell
10. Lady Godiva – Alex Day
11. A song about Acne – Charlie McDonnell
12. Viva la Vida – Coldplay
13. Thrift Shop – Macklemore
14. A Thousand Years – Christina Perri
15. 6 Degrees of Separation – The Script
16. Circle of life – The Lion King
17. Can you feel the love tonight – The Lion King

I know what your thinking.

Why only 17? Surely you must love more songs than that!?!

Well I guess that is the problem, after 17 my choices aren’t as clear, do I go with Bruno Mars – When I was your man, or do I go with an original song that I love equally well. So I have done my top 17, an easy choice for me but it got to hard after 17 and I gave up on getting down to 20 as I felt I would disrespect too many songs. Sorry, BTW, I was looking over my stats, showing off to my dad, and thank you for over 400 views of my blog.

During this holiday starting from the 1st until the holiday ends on the 14th, there will be a podcast almost every day!

Top 40

I have always hated the ‘Top 40’ list because I feel that the ways they chose the songs is unfair, people don’t just buy their favourite songs, they go on YouTube, download songs and songs can be blue toothed from one person to another, one person buys it and sends it to another person yet it only counts as one person buying the track because who knows what people do with their Cd’s once they have bought them. For these reasons and for the fact that I like to pick my own music rather than listen with the crowd I have created my own list of favourite songs. I will do another post next time on my top 10 or if I find time, top 40. I love the freedom I get from searching an old favourite, the rushing feeling of, ‘yes I chose this song to listen to and didn’t let anyone give me ideas of what is cool to listen to.’ My feelings towards songs changes and if a song is new while I am cheerful, I like the song, If it comes on in the mornings when I don’t feel well, I find I am less likely to search it on YouTube later. I have found if I listen to a song on the radio and remember the lyrics and search it, It has past the first test! I change my mind about songs, as you should and as I said, I will post next time my Top songs!

Maroon 5 – Payphone

Music Video

Lyrics Video

Lyrics Video official lyrics video (a must watch video!)

I have * the bad words for you! 🙂

‘I’m at a payphone trying to call home
All of my change I spent on you
Where have the times gone, baby it’s all wrong
Where are the plans we made for two?

Yeah, I, I know it’s hard to remember,
The people we used to be
It’s even harder to picture,
That you’re not here next to me

You say it’s too late to make it,
But is it too late to try?
And in our time that you wasted
All of our bridges burned down

I’ve wasted my nights,
You turned out the lights
Now I’m paralyzed,
Still stuck in that time,
When we called it love,
But even the sun sets in paradise

I’m at a payphone trying to call home
All of my change I spent on you
Where have the times gone, baby it’s all wrong
Where are the plans we made for two?

If “Happy Ever Afters” did exist,
I would still be holding you like this
All those fairy tales are full of sh*t
One more f*cking love song , I’ll be sick

Oh, you turned your back on tomorrow
‘Cause you forgot yesterday
I gave you my love to borrow,
But you just gave it away

You can’t expect me to be fine,
I don’t expect you to care
I know I’ve said it before,
But all of our bridges burned down

I’ve wasted my nights,
You turned out the lights
Now I’m paralyzed,
Still stuck in that time,
When we called it love,
But even the sun sets in paradise

I’m at a payphone trying to call home
All of my change I spent on you
Where have the times gone, baby it’s all wrong
Where are the plans we made for two?

If “Happy Ever Afters” did exist,
I would still be holding you like this
All those fairy tales are full of sh*t
One more f*cking love song, I’ll be sick
Now I’m at a payphone

Man, f*ck that sh*t
I’ll be out spending all this money
While you’re sitting round wondering
Why it wasn’t you who came up from nothing,
Made it from the bottom
Now when you see me I’m stunting,
And all of my cars start with a push of a button

Telling me the chances I blew up
Or whatever you call it,
Switch the number to my phone
So you never could call it,
Don’t need my name on my show,
You can tell it I’m ballin’

Swish, what a shame could have got picked
Had a really good game but you missed your last shot
So you talk about who you see at the top
Or what you could have saw but sad to say it’s over for
Phantom pulled up valet open doors
Wiz like go away, got what you was looking for
Now it’s me who they want, so you can go and take
that little piece of sh*t with you

I’m at a payphone trying to call home
All of my change I spent on you
Where have the times gone, baby it’s all wrong
Where are the plans we made for two?

If “Happy Ever Afters” did exist,
I would still be holding you like this
All those fairy tales are full of sh*t
One more f*cking love song, I’ll be sick
Now I’m at a payphone’

It comes with a picture that I edited a little, I didn’t take the picture and I used an editor called ‘fotor’ on my computer, I know it isn’t the best editor but I like it! Anyways.

It is about a relationship, maybe with his girlfriend, a best friend or anyone he would love dearly. The  video suggests that he fell in love saving her. Superman style. That is his fairy-tale, maybe not quite the same, but you get the idea. He wants to be like superman, saving everyone. But in the video, he got in the car and left her, he ran away from the relationship and the police car. To get away he turned round and the police cars crashed, this may symbolise he messed up the relationship like he messed up their cars.

the police in the video have come out in numbers more that what you would expect for one car robbery, that symbolising the last straw of which he ran away from the relationship. To me that shows me that not only has he done what is symbolised by the car crash but he must have done other things which ruined the relationship. He ends in the same pose of which the video starts, in a payphone, he starts a new relationship. What puzzles me is why he uses a payphone, why doesn’t he use the mobile we saw before he threw it away?

I will not be doing another podcast for a while. I know I said I would post the poem I read in the last but it will be posted soon. Maybe I will make a poem Category, see if you can find my hidden meaning.

Adele – Skyfall

This is the end
Hold your breath and count to ten
Feel the earth move  and then
Hear my heart burst again

For this is the end
I’ve  drowned and dreamt this moment
So overdue I owe them
Swept away, I’m  stolen

Let the sky fall
When it crumbles
We will stand tall
Face it all together

Let the sky fall
When it crumbles
We will  stand tall
Face it all together
At skyfall
At skyfall

Skyfall is where we start
A thousand miles and poles apart
Where worlds  collide and days are dark
You may have my number, you can take my name
But you’ll never have my heart

Let the sky fall
When it  crumbles
We will stand tall
Face it all together

Let the sky  fall
When it crumbles
We will stand tall
Face it all together
At  skyfall

Where you go I go
What you see I see
I know I’d never be  me
Without the security
Of your loving arms
Keeping me from harm
Put your hand in my hand
And we’ll stand

Let the sky fall
When  it crumbles
We will stand tall
Face it all together

Let the sky  fall
When it crumbles
We will stand tall
Face it all together
At  skyfall

Let the sky fall
We will stand tall
At skyfall

SPOILER ALERT – Don’t read if you don’t want any spoilers!

 

In the film, James bond is shot at and falls off a bridge, he has to hold his breath, he feels his death is ‘overdue’. ‘Where I go, you go, What I see, you see’ The secret service would be watching him and are keeping track on him.

 

Another way of looking at this song is that the song is not really about James Bond but about Adele, her Soul, her spirit. It seems to be about death, ‘this is the end’ ‘I’ve drowned’ ‘swept away’ spiritually, her whole world seems to crumble but she face’s it all. The phrase ‘A thousand miles and poles apart’ seems to say that she feels her soul is somewhere else, should be somewhere else. The sky falling is something used in myth meaning the otherworld or underworld will collide with ours. She feels that the underworld version of her needs to be collided with hers so she feels whole again.

New layout for my posts

Ok, nobody has suggested I change the layout, but it has come to my attention that at my school, YouTube has been banned, I can’t use YouTube links in school. So to either solve or make the problem worse I have decided that I shall put the lyrics in my post, so people can just read the poetry of the words without the music. If you guys don’t like it the new way, you can comment or just scroll down. The lyrics will still be in italics like in my other post so they should be easy to find.

Sorry, but yes. I am counting this as a post, so there wont be another till the 10th. Just kidding, I will work on it once I have typed this all up. This next post will a sample post. I may also post pictures that I feel tie in with the post. Like a collage of pictures I made of a singer with a post about their song. Say if you don’t want that though. I could also post a copy of the poem I wrote and said in my podcast.

I shall keep posting once every 5 days but if I find it too hard, I may have to make it once a week, with a podcast once every 2 months, if you want me to do one.

Leave a comment below with your opinion on this new layout, timetable, possible podcasts, poems, pictures and other stuff I will be bringing into my posts. !