I’ve been listening to a lot of Paramore and blink-182 songs and other pop punk/alternative rock genre but mostly these two bands and listed above are just some of my favorite songs from the two bands.
I’ve already shared some of my sentiments on the band Paramore and on their latest album After Laughter on one of my previous post. As I’ve said I really liked their album RIOT and also because of the influence of my sister, she used to listen to them all the time. Now, I just started listening to them again because When It Rains came on my shuffled songs which is one of my favorite Paramore song. Sadly, they changed their sound which used to be a vibe of pop punk and alternative rock. Now, they are more pop but I still like their current sound though.
blink-182, should I tell more about them? When you say punk I think they’re the first one that will come into everyone’s mind. Their song All The Small Things was one of the anthems of most early 2000’s teen flick movies. Their album Enema of the State was their greatest album and also one of my favorite album.
I honestly miss this kind of music. Well, that’s my playlist for today. 😊
Would you believe that I had only just watched Inside Out for the first time today? Like, why did I only watch this film today? Anyway, can I just say that this film is perfect for those who struggle with depression and other type of mood disorders and generally with their mental health to make them understand what goes through their head and understand their emotions especially acknowledging that sadness is a necessary and an important emotion.
I guess you all know the plot of the movie. Five emotions manage the brain activity of Riley. Joy, Fear, Disgust, Anger and Sadness with Joy being the “leader” and making sure that Riley is always happy. But when Riley goes through a huge change in her life, Joy has her work cut out for her. But then Joy and Sadness got sucked into a tube that made them travel to a different place inside Riley’s head with Riley’s core memories, their goal was to get Joy back to the “head quarters” because without Joy and the core memories, Riley doesn’t have a personality and she won’t be happy.
Throughout the movie I thought Joy was the most important character and emotion, I’m not saying that Joy wasn’t important but then towards the end when Joy was stuck in the “forgotten memories black hole”, Joy found a specific memory of Riley where she was sad that made her parents comfort her and made her feel better again. That’s when Joy realized that Sadness was the one who could fix Riley’s situation.
As much as possible Joy would never let Sadness “drive” Riley’s thoughts. Joy would always disregard Sadness for the thought of she might mess things up and Joy always wanted Riley to just have happy memories. But then Riley’s mind got really messed up without her core memories and only three emotions was “controlling” her brain to the point that she was really empty and not feeling anything at all. Joy and Sadness got back to the head quarters just in time and Sadness took over, making Riley confide to her parents about what was going on and that’s the time that the five emotions learned to worked together and not just let one emotion control Riley.
I would like to give props to Disney again for creating yet another great animated film where it depicts what happens inside our brains and what we can’t explain. Like, when Riley didn’t have core memories and her “islands of personalities” went down and somehow led to Riley being lost and depressed. It shows that our personality plays a huge part in our life and without it we might feel incomplete to the point of feeling empty. And also props to the creator for pointing out that Sadness is an important emotion, they try to tell us that once in a while it’s okay to feel sad and we need to acknowledge that emotion. It actually also shows that it is okay to seek for help and seeking for help can lead to making you feel better which is very significant to the people who has depression, anxiety or any other mental health illness because as we all know most of them struggle with opening up and talking about their situation. Never be ashamed to talk about your struggles it makes you stronger and talking about it to someone will take that huge luggage off your shoulders.
I love the fact that this is an animated film where kids can enjoy watching it but at the same time adults can also enjoy it and might also pick up something from it. I’m hoping that there will be a sequel because I was sensing one with a puberty story which I think will be so much more interesting because we all know that being a teenager is one of the most complicated time of a person’s life with all the hormones and changes that are going on.
Have you watched the film? What did you think? 😊
This playlist is a mixture of 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s songs. These kind of songs are just very timeless. I’ve been in my old-soul kind of mood these past few days (actually every day) that I’m also rewatching F.R.I.E.N.D.S again and blasting Backstreet Boys’ songs and watching their videos on Youtube all week because why not? I just really love Nick Carter lol. I don’t know why but I really like stuff from the past. I was born in the wrong generation.
Is listening to Taylor Swift a guilty pleasure? For some maybe but for me I’m not really guilty because you can’t deny that you know at least one Taylor Swift song and you sing to it at the top of your lungs inside your car.
A few weeks ago Taylor Swift returned on Spotify and putting back all her albums on the streaming site which I was basically overjoyed because I use Spotify to listen to music because it saves so much space on my phone, now I feel like my playlist on Spotify is complete with her back on it.
So right now I’m going to narrow down 10 underrated Taylor Swift songs even though all of her songs are so good, I’m going to pick only 10 songs that everyone should listen to and Taylor should have released as a single.
1. Jump Then Fall – This song was included in the soundtrack of Valentine’s Day where Taylor starred in.
2. Forever and Always – this version is when you’re mad after the break-up but I recommend you listening to the piano version unfortunately, it’s not on Youtube but here’s a Spotify link. The piano version is more like the stage of grieving in a break-up. You can feel the emotion, the pain of the break-up in this song especially when it comes to the bridge of the song where she sings “back up baby back up”, a perfect song when you feel like being melodramatic about a break-up. I like it when she sings acoustic because it brings out the beauty of her voice even more.
3. Never Grow Up – a very nostalgic song, makes you reminisce about your childhood days and wishing you could go back and just never grow up.
4. Enchanted – every time I hear this song it makes me feel like I’m in a fairytale, such great lyrics. It captures that feeling of a perfect first date, that stage in a relationship where you just can’t wait to meet that person again. I also love the lyric in the bridge “please, don’t be in love with someone else. Please, don’t have somebody waiting on you.”
5. Last Kiss – another melodramatic break-up song but this is for like you want to be in bed all day and dwell on the break up.
6. Treacherous – it’s all about taking risks in love just like the song says “nothing safe is worth the drive”.
7. Stay Stay Stay – this is such a fun song to listen to it’s Christmassy even though it’s not a Christmas song, I just feel a Christmas vibe with the melody lol. The song is really about talking things through and staying in the relationship despite of all the arguments you face.
8. Clean – this is the song that Taylor wrote with Imogen Heap, I just find this song eccentric in terms of the sound you can really hear Imogen Heap in it. The lyrical content is also very relatable especially when you’re in the process of healing from something.
9. How You Get The Girl – another enjoyable music to listen to, just like 22 (that rhymed!)
10. You Are In Love – perfect way to describe love and being in love.
May I also add All Too Well, probably one of my most favorite Taylor Swift song, I already added it to another playlist before so I didn’t include it in here. Well, that’s my top 10 underrated Taylor Swift songs, comment your favorite Taylor Swift song/s 😊.
P. S. Songs from 1989 album are not included in the Youtube playlist, couldn’t find a nice quality vid. Stream the whole Taylor Swift catalog on Spotify though if you like 😊.
This playlist sort of tells “yeah I’m alright, am I?”, it’s like a vibe of life is great and it makes sense but sometimes it’s all of the opposite— sometimes you’re okay and sometimes you’re not and sometimes you just have to go with the flow. This playlist also tells that sometimes you have that confidence and you believe in yourself but sometimes there’ll be moments where your self-esteem is just not there. It’s being in the middle of being strong and giving up.
