There has been a lot of good music to come from 2010. Some I discovered in America, some from England, and some from far flung places like New Zealand. Music each year changes and shifts, and this year I have been listening to a nice bit of dancey electro, chilled electro and good old fashioned indie. Here are my favourite songs:
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - Home
The Naked & Famous - Punching in a Dream
Wild Nothing - Chinatown
Museum of Bellas Artes - Who Do You Love
Seabear - Arms
Wednesday 29 December 2010
Robyn - Dancing On My Own
Robyn released her album Body Talk Pt. 1 earlier this year and I was mesmerised by it. Dancing On My Own was her first single from the album and it struck me like a song hasn't done in a long time. The lyrics are so heartbreaking, but so incredibly true. There have been times when I have listened to this song and cried and some times I have danced my little legs off to it. Through my experiences this year, this song probably rings true with me. It is definitely my song of the year.
Tuesday 28 December 2010
2010
As the end of the year draws ever nearer, I can't help but look back and evaluate my year.
I have had a strange year with extreme highs and extreme lows, moments of happiness and moments of sadness. As each year of my life passes, I begin to look more towards the future, but also constantly look back at my past and try to work out where things went wrong. I have made numerous mistakes, some of which have ended badly, some of which have changed my life in ways I cannot fully explain.
2010 has been one of those mixed bag years, where I want the year to end, but I also need to cling on to that last bit of it as next year everything will change. As someone who in the space of 3 years lived in 3 different countries, people would assume I would be used to it by now. I am not. Change terrifies me, it makes me feel nervous and twitchy. The thought of leaving my little university bubble to go and explore the big wide world is scary. I don't know where I'll end up, what I'll be doing and who I'll be with, hopefully what I have planned in my mind will work out.
So when 2011 comes around I hope to be fully ready for it, and hopefully will embrace the change. I need to grow up, sort my life out and take my friend Peter's drunken advice of, "When you think too much.. that is the problem". I have spent far too much time this year thinking, not being able to sleep for hours due to thinking over a problem that shouldn't concern me. Next year I am going to take Peter's advice and just not think so much. I over analyse the most stupid elements of my life and it makes everything worse. If I have learnt one thing this year it is that you will always meet shit people. Some people who have two sides, one for you and one for everyone else. It is normally these people that take up my brain space, and I have finally learnt to let it go.
Things I've liked about 2010:
Georgia, my new second home, full of some of my favourite people
Cementing some friendships with people I hope to have in my life for a very long time
Any song released by Robyn, a woman who only speaks the truth
Things I haven't liked about 2010:
Pretty much the whole of January
Most of the months since July
Illness
Men
I have had a strange year with extreme highs and extreme lows, moments of happiness and moments of sadness. As each year of my life passes, I begin to look more towards the future, but also constantly look back at my past and try to work out where things went wrong. I have made numerous mistakes, some of which have ended badly, some of which have changed my life in ways I cannot fully explain.
2010 has been one of those mixed bag years, where I want the year to end, but I also need to cling on to that last bit of it as next year everything will change. As someone who in the space of 3 years lived in 3 different countries, people would assume I would be used to it by now. I am not. Change terrifies me, it makes me feel nervous and twitchy. The thought of leaving my little university bubble to go and explore the big wide world is scary. I don't know where I'll end up, what I'll be doing and who I'll be with, hopefully what I have planned in my mind will work out.
So when 2011 comes around I hope to be fully ready for it, and hopefully will embrace the change. I need to grow up, sort my life out and take my friend Peter's drunken advice of, "When you think too much.. that is the problem". I have spent far too much time this year thinking, not being able to sleep for hours due to thinking over a problem that shouldn't concern me. Next year I am going to take Peter's advice and just not think so much. I over analyse the most stupid elements of my life and it makes everything worse. If I have learnt one thing this year it is that you will always meet shit people. Some people who have two sides, one for you and one for everyone else. It is normally these people that take up my brain space, and I have finally learnt to let it go.
Things I've liked about 2010:
Georgia, my new second home, full of some of my favourite people
Cementing some friendships with people I hope to have in my life for a very long time
Any song released by Robyn, a woman who only speaks the truth
Things I haven't liked about 2010:
Pretty much the whole of January
Most of the months since July
Illness
Men
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