10 Songs: Butterfly

I’m currently making playlists for each of my Top Songs of 2018 in Spotify, and then choosing the top 10 in the playlists and making them mood boards so…yeah…this is the number 1 song.

1. Butterfly – BTS

• Co-written by Suga/ Min Yoongi, this song express the fear of losing someone through the simile of a butterfly. The butterfly could be interpreted as representing the ephemerality of time that risks being lost at a moment’s notice. (Genius / Billboard)
• “It  also mostly seems like the fear of losing someone who brings you so much happiness. There’s also a hint of trying to save someone before they do something they regret or something they won’t come back from.” Justine Micaela

“I still can’t believe it

All of this seems like a dream

Don’t try to disappear.”

      2. Clean – Taylor Swift

• Clean is a song about heartbreak written when she found herself in a place she used to spend time with with an old significant other and realizing that she’s “finally clean” (Genius)
• “Clean” also has a different meaning to fans who’ve had struggles with mental illness, addiction, and abuse – it’s about being quite literally clean.

“Rain came pouring down,

when I was drowning that’s when I could finally breathe.”

     3. Wide Awake – Katy Perry

• Katy Perry has described her new single ‘Wide Awake’ as a “dose of reality” and admits that the song deals with much more negative emotions than many of her previous single releases. (capitalfm)
• It was written during a difficult break-up part of Perry’s life and it was meant as an antithesis to “Teenage Dream”. (wiki)

“I’m wide awake,

yeah, I was dreaming for so long.”

4. Get Home – Bastille

•  “Get Home finds him [Chris] stumbling home from a club, pondering the meaning of it all: it paints him as quite the bar-room philosopher.” (theguardian)
• “From this song, I sense a depressed tone, with “getting home” really meaning feeling safe and sound again, as one would at their home. The narrator feels scared and alone and may be dealing with very negative thoughts or even panic. The slow breathing in the background seems to be an effort to maintain peace while his mind makes up every worst scenario.” Tango64_x

“There’s a light in the bedroom but it’s dark

Scattered around on the floor all my thoughts.”

5. Tonight I’m Getting Over You – Carly Rae Jepsen

“Stuck in a real bad dream, oh man it feels so new to me

Should be in your arms but I’m begging at your feet.”

6. (One of Those) Crazy Girls – Paramore

•  The song is about how crazy anyone, might turn in the event of a painful breakup.
• This song is one of the very few examples in which Paramore’s lyrics don’t draw from Hayley’s personal experiences. (Genius)

“Are we really over now?

Maybe I can change your mind

As soon as you walk out my door

I’m gonna call a hundred times.”

7. Spring Day – BTS

• In a short interview in Inkigayo, BTS’ V/ Kim Taehyung answered that they wrote the song thinking of ARMY during the cold winter. (Genius)
• Billboard stated that “the guys are still pining for their lost love, but they aren’t staying in a one-track mindset. Instead, they use the weather and seasonal metaphors to describe how things get better — a lesson many of their young fans can find comfort in when dealing with relationships, or school, friends, family, their careers or beyond. “

“How long do I have to wait

And how many sleepless nights do I have to spend

To see you

To meet you

8. Let Go – BTS

• This song refers to a relationship that’s about to break. Although the character that the boys portray don’t want it to happen, both sides agree that it is best to let go. (Genius)

“Burned into the back of my head like a tatoo

We can’t return to those days

If I could, I would call your name

No…but I’l accept your blame”

9. Epilogue : Young Forever – BTS

• Produced by RM/ Kim Namjoon, this lyrics of this ballad reminds us that even if we fall, we are young as we chase our dreams. (Genius)

“Forever we are young

Even when I fall and hurt myself

I keep running toward my dream.”

10. So Far Away – Agust D ft. Suran

• It is a song that intertwines the rapper’s past experiences and his message for the future.
• The chorus begins with a wistful tone, speaking the minds of those wishing for a dream to achieve.
• The second chorus is written in extremely formal Korean dialect, the kind found in prayer rituals and other such important literature. The very meaning of the verse acts almost like a prayer – a continuous chant to keep walking. (Kim Seokjinnie)

“Dream, your beginnings will seem humble,

So prosperous your future will be.”

10 Songs: Some Favorites

1. Little Italy – Stephen Bishop ft. Chaka Khan

• So, apparently Stephen Bishop is a title guy, meaning he likes making up titles, and he once read the name “Little Italy” when he was looking around his landlady’s room. (That’s what I understood in this video)
• I don’t remember the first time I heard this song but it always had a calming effect on me, like probably the feeling you get when you’re out of the city and into a garden. My mom once told me she would one day build her own restaurant and name it “Rosie’s Place” and I just wondered who Rosie is then she told me:

“Ah, but Rosie,

she’s got a rainbow round her shoulder

you better not lose her.”

• And so begins my fascination with names in songs because they all have a story in them.

2. Plans – Oh Wonder

• The comment section of the lyric video for this song is filled with sentiments on a long distant relationship, and, yeah, I get it, I still wrote a something that I wrote about my own sentiments in this song and when I read this, I’m happy that we had the same idea about this song.
• At the time, my favorite Oh Wonder song was “Landslide”, but senior high school year was not a mentally healthy year for me, and while “Landslide” also gave messages of hope, “Plans” is a lot closer to how I felt then, and how I’ve been giving myself hope all the time. So “Landslide” became more of a song I would give to my friends during hard times, and “Plans” became the song more rooted to me.

3. Hanap – Autotelic

• If it wasn’t obvious in the title of the song, this is an OPM song (Original Pinoy Music), if the Brits have Honne, we have Autotelic. (hehehe, maybe I stretched it there)
• Everything I’ve heard from Autotelic deserves to be in my chill playlist (my electronic dance music playlist that are fit for sitting beside the pool and sipping mango juice), but “Hanap” really helped the most in calming down (see the pattern). And, I don’t know if I can relate to the song or something, but to me, that’s the most romantic song in their album.
• Check it out if you’d like and if you have questions, feel free to ask. You just have to listen first.

I got caught hehehe, yes, I use Adobe Spark

4. Seoul – RM

• RM is…RM. He’s…..RM. He’s…RM
• Take away the Seoul part, this can be about love in any way, that’s the beauty of it.
• I like how Genius wrote the meaning of the song though.

5. Bright Lights and Cityscapes– Sara Bareilles

• This is the song that Sara couldn’t sing without crying when she was recording, and when you listen to it, the emotion is there. When I heard this song, I couldn’t not repeat it and repeat it and repeat it.
• I didn’t know that the song is about loving someone who preferred someone else, I honestly got that just now, as I’m writing this post, and when I found out, the connection I feel with this song just became sadder.

6. The Human Heart – Once On This Island Revival

• The song that Erzulie (played by the lovely Lea Salonga) sings as she blesses Ti Moune and Daniel.
• I have not watched the musical, but this song makes me cry.

7. Sweet Child O Mine – Captain Fantastic Cover

• I may have rolled my eyes when I heard that this was their mother’s favorite song, but I smiled when they played their version, it is only then that I saw the poetry in that overplayed song.

8. Times Are Hard For Dreamers – Amelie the Musical

• This is the song Amelie sings as she begins to uncover the world around her.
• If I were to audition as myself for anything (and I did once), I would sing this (and I did) simply because out of all the “I want” songs in theatre (is this an “I want” song?), I can relate to this one more than anything.

9. Tonight I’m Getting Over You – Carly Rae Jepsen

• True to the title, this is a post-break up song about moving on. If I had known I would grow to love Carly, I think I’d answer with “really?”
• I heard this during the times of “Call Me Maybe”, and I liked it then, still like it now. I love it like an old best friend even if I have never experienced heartbreak before.
• Candy says, this is a break up song while ultimately trying to get back together with said person, Carly says, she wrote it that way to make it more sincere, and it worked. When I fake perform this in my bedroom I’m almost crying.

10. Moon River – Melissa Benoist Cover

• The film is iconic, and I have high respect for the original songs of my favorite covers, but I just love Marley’s voice. (I mean Melissa)

Credits to the original owners of the pictures.

So, I’m gonna make the 10 songs a thing now because of my tendency to list random stuff including playlists that I never do on my spotify account because it already has too much playlists.

Also, I notice that there are some songs that have something to do with love that I do not get until I search it, and as much as I connect to them, this is also a testimony on how innocent and naive I still am.

I hope you listen to these songs whether for the sake of it or just to widen you horizons. Have a nice day! 🙂

Sleeping at Last: “Atlas: Darkness”

1. Overture – an introduction to something more substantial

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“The mind was made

to illuminate the heart.”

 

 

 

 

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“Even after everything we’ve seen

We’ve barely caught a glimpse of what it means

In the architecture of the soul

The universe began with our eyes closed.”

 

 

 

 

 

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“Every living thing

is in this constant state of unrest.”

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2. Woodwork – the wooden parts of a room or building

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 “Our world caves in on us

and makes us new.”

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 “All our love came out of the woodwork

All our strength came out of the woodwork

We only know this light

Deep in the woodwork.”

 

 

 

 

 

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“It’s a cruel cruel trick

how we find ourselves

when we lose everything else.”

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3. I’ll Keep You Safe – “You keep me wild, and I’ll keep you safe.”

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“Darkness will be rewritten

into fiction, you’ll see.”

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“Dismiss the invisible 

by giving it shape.”

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“God knows that mistakes will be made

but I promise you I’ll will keep you safe.”

 

 

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4. Bad Blood – ill feeling

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“When there is bad blood in us,

we learned our lesson:

Genesis to the last generation.”

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“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

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“In beauty there echoes the speck of our source.”

 

 

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“We argue our bearings

until we collapse”

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“We study our story arcs-

inherently good,

Or were we broken from the start?”

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“Every blade of grass

bears our mark.”

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“In the name of being brave,

Though it’s just another word for being afraid.”

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5. Uneven Odds – depicts the uneven/unfair dds of a young child navigating all the confusion, neglect, and darkness that follows when the child loses its parents

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“Forgiveness is a lesson he cursed you to learn”

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“Make sense of God’s love in these fires of hell”

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“Maybe your light is a seed

And the darkness dirt

In spite of the uneven odds

Beauty lifts from earth”

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ehem…

Credits to the owners of all those gorgeous pictures and artworks.

Have a nice day! 🙂

 

RM’s Mono as Black and White Pictures

1. Tokyo

by jessaphb from clickinmoms.com

After listening to the playlist for the nth time, trying to extract a summary on what I really want to say about what I observed about everything, I concluded that this is my least favorite song, it’s the perfect intro, and it is how I imagine RM sounds like personally.

As a fan of BTS, I have heard songs from each of the mixtapes the rap line has released and each of them have shed a part of themselves in those songs that we all should appreciate. I think their personal styles, both music and lyric wise, reflect on their solo songs in Wings. Like Reflection, Tokyo (the whole playlist) is very reflective. It has a long instrumental break that sets the mood for an atmosphere of introspection, and personally, both are my least favorite songs in their respective albums, which probably mirrors the fact that I hate my overthinking habits because it drives me insane. But like how both songs effortlessly make me think of RM in his sensitive and true state, Tokyo is the perfect intro because of all the ways I just described it: reflective and introspective (practically synonyms those are). The entire playlist is both of those and, like Joey Nato, even if it’s not my favorite, in an artistic sense, I can appreciate it. Because art, in all its forms, is supposed to be subjective, and it’s supposed to make you feel.

“I see Pinocchio wearing a poncho,

That’s me some time ago.”

For the picture, I was hoping to find a Pinocchio fan art, because, for some unexplainable reason, that’s my favorite lyric in the song. I instead opted to scroll through two different tabs on Pinterest looking for black and white pictures that will make my intuition jump and say, “that is the one”. Well, that is the one.

The picture is of introspection. Like the captor wants a moment in the darkness to lay down his messes and collect himself. Like the captor wants to revel in his sadness and his pain and find the ground for a minute in his restless ocean. It’s a subtext in RM’s song because he is the one that made himself feel homesick and alone, and sometimes that’s the best course of action when you miss the feeling of feeling because it’s better than pretending when you’re truly feeling empty inside.

2. Seoul (prod. Honne)

by Mr Gianni Fontana from Flickr

Seoul is one of my favorites in the playlist and it’s just my type of pop song, and by pop song I mean electronic song, or it depends on the typical songs I hear on the radio or could be in the radio, Seoul should be on the radio, and it’s my kind of song if it is on the radio. This is a bit of snippet of the fact that my music library is not what you would usually find on the radio.

“If love and hate were the same things,

I love you Seoul,

If love and hate were the same things,

I hate you Seoul.”

So, because I love the song, I can’t quite write about it as much as I want to. All I can say is that like Joey Nato said, it’s a “starting your day” song, which means it’s got a laid-back energy that makes you move but not with so much energy which is the atmosphere on a lazy morning, but you still have something to do. I love the sentimentality that echoes on the lyrics of the song which echoes through the whole song, I’ve heard Honne’s music before and I’m not a big fan but their romantic, electronic style fits perfectly in this song and I don’t know who chose them to produce this song, but they chose right.

I love the lyric video so much that I can’t hold back on wanting to get a picture of Seoul for this post, but I didn’t want to use the video and I found this. To me, it’s got the same feeling of an imperfect home but still, home.

3. Moonchild

by eves_art_project from instagram

As I listened to this song again, it got to me how BTS has somehow, again, redefined my music taste because the style of this song is similar to some of the hip-hop songs I hear in the radio that I can tolerate but I can’t like. But when I listened to the whole playlist without the lyrics, I still have an appreciation for all of them despite the genre. Their music, to me, has a lot more soul than what I frequently hear on the radio. But, remember, music is subjective guys, we have different tastes.

“Moonchild, you shine,

When the moon rises, it’s your time.”

There is a shoutout to Love Yourself here, but I think I should expect that a lot more now, but it’s still worth saying. As an identified living sunshine according to my friends, the message of Moonchild is very personal for me because I strive for sadness. I’m always happy because I’m always sad. My eyes are teary no matter the situation and I am extremely sensitive. It is because I feel too much that I somehow find a way to smile and it’s very contradictory, but that is how I’m also able to write poetry.

This song sort of cemented what I feel whenever RM writes a song, I think that if ever I meet him, it’s either we will talk a lot or none at all.

4. Badbye (with eAeon)

by Lee Jeffries from fromupnorth.com

“Please break me into little pieces.”

^I’ll just leave that there.^

5. Uh good (어긋)

unknown from Pinterest

“Falling short is a painful thing,

But if you don’t go through it, you can’t know it.”

6. Everything goes (지나가) (with Nell)

by Monica Galvan

“It passes”

This is one of my favorites. I was imagining flowers blooming during spring while listening to this song.

The picture I chose, I wanted to help portray the repeating passing message because pictures also fade but so will this, whatever it is we’re going through, and if you look at the song and in this picture, the message “it passes” can have both positive and negative meaning to it, but from the music and the picture, the passing is still beautiful.

Do I make sense?

7. Forever Rain

unknown from Pinterest

I think Forever Rain stands out in the playlist, it feels like it’s got a dimension of it’s own and it’s meant to be played last because of that.

“When it rains I

Get a little feeling that I do have a friend

That keeps knocking on my windows

Asking me if I’m doing well.”

I chose the picture based on the feeling I get when I think or when I’m waiting for it to rain, because like those lyrics, that is how I feel when it’s raining outside.

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So, lyrically speaking, I connect most to Moonchild and Forever Rain, I did not need to explain that last track anymore because y’all should know how much I love the rain.  Musically speaking, I love Seoul, and Everything goes.

So, if you’ll see as the playlist progresses my paragraphs get smaller, I just find that the more I analyze each song individually the more I run out of words to say. Also, while making this post I was watching Joey Nato’s take on this mixtape in order to hear somebody else’s more intelligent view on it.

Overall, this playlist is an inspired 24-minute therapy session, I find it also interesting how simple it actually is in lyrics and how there are many instances that focus more on the music and letting that element say what it has to say, I applied black and white as the theme here because Forever Rain MV is black and white and I just applied it and from what I heard, it is an honest mixtape about RM himself and as it turns out, the entire playlist is gorgeous.

1st set of prompts DONE

I am a sucker for interesting and aesthetic prompts, because it excites me and challenges me to test the limits of my imagination. I usually make lists of random things and make poems out of them or ask random people to give me a topic. Recently (much longer than that), I have been into those “types of people” posts I see on tumblr so, I have a lot of screenshots of them saved on my phone and I’m trying to make poems out of them. First list is done, and imma show y’all and talk about them for y’all.

I deleted my picture so I just got this in pinterest, if anybody knows who made this please tell me so I can give them credits.

And I’ll just compile all finish products here.

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Unless it’s not obvious, I used word to create all of those.

Honey is the first type of person on the list so, it’s the first one I attempted and it took me so long since it’s a person, I should be able to show an actual person (but how?). It was around the first month of the first semester that I started this and I was just exploring K-Pop at the time, the songs stuck in my head then was “Wine” by Suran and “For Now” by Kwon Jinah and Sam Kim, and one time, as my dad picked me up to go home, I just thought, “Suran’s character in Wine sounds like someone under the Honey type”, so I started there.

As I listened though, I was more interested in Changmo’s character because at first, he’s the type to just brush off feelings and just go on casual dates and hook – ups, but as I listened, and I thought that the girl is also along that kind of character, because she’s very smart and adventurous so she would know the kind of people she’s hanging out with, I made up a story based on what I’m hearing and the atmosphere of the song sounds like a memory they hold that is more meaningful than they thought, therefore, they’re trying to forget each other but can’t, and seeing as the guy seems like the older person in the story with a lot more experience, his perception in the story is the part where I focused on (also, I was imagining it was Yoongi’s perception in an au where he still plays piano but he is the good guy bad boy type of guy).

I wanted to show little bits of the girls’ character through this poem also, to get a glimpse of Honey. So, if you read the poem, you should be able to see the good grades (I like to think she’s a senior high schooler that is just naturally smart) part with the way she just smiles when she leaves him because she knows that that is the direction they’re bound to be going.

*(Because I’m a dork), Person’s Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw (both characters)

Honey had a little bit of a story line to help with my forming of the character, so, at first, I tried to do the same thing here but I was never satisfied, which is why this is the 4th poem I was able to create in the prompts despite it being 2nd in line.

At the time, having a song to help wasn’t a big deal yet, but, when I decided not to follow the order of the list and just write the second poem, I found that music (and the lyrics) is a big influence for me when I’m writing poems. In my mind, she is a runaway, but not the rebellious type and more the I finished high school and was able to save enough to travel type. She’s a runaway in a sense that she wants peace from her home that never really felt like home, but she has met runaways while she’s traveling.

I don’t know how “Cups” by Anna Kendrick inspired me exactly. I think it just helped straighten the vision I already had of her, it’s like, she’s gently telling the people who didn’t believe in her that when she’s gone, they’re gonna find out that they’re wrong.

Person’s Hogwarts House: Gryffindor

Among all those types, I am wisteria. That could partly be the reason why I was able to create this poem fast and why the design I made for that poem is my favorite.

At first, I was hesitant to use “Through the Night” by IU as my inspiration because she’s not wearing thick sweaters in the music video (hehehe) but it really is my inspiration. I made the poem with the sentimental feeling in the song even though I don’t really know who’s she’s addressing her letters to.

Person’s Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff

This took me the longest. Even when I had the idea and the song I just couldn’t put it into words that would satisfy me.

The inspiration was brought forth more specifically by the interview for the meaning behind “Sky Full of Stars” by Florence and the Machine. I honestly didn’t think I would ever go to that direction in the character’s story, but I did, yet, like I said, I WAS NEVER SATISFIED GAHH

So I decided to step back and let her be her own character.

Person’s Hogwarts House: Slytherin (I swear, I didn’t mean to complete all the houses this fast)

When I wrote Journalists of the Night, I did not think that I was writing this for Ink. I was more focused on the things Ink likes and does and the “ink” was really a coincidence, I wasn’t paying attention to that. “Under Stars” by Aurora is, again, vision straightener (hehehe) in this poem. In my mind, the characters are a boy and a girl in a platonic or sibling relationship (whichever works better, I don’t know yet) who are journalists of the night. The poem already says everything, I think the song is the outcome of their observations and imaginations, sung by Aurora.

Person’s Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw (though, to me they’re still young, like below 15, so I’m still letting them grow so, I ‘m not sure about this yet)

This is the most random of poems that I made because, I made exactly after I found the song for it. I switched from “Pretty Girl” to “Hand in My Pocket” to this. I wondered how I’m gonna portray an independent girl from the very beginning. I wondered how I’m going to write her confidence in a way that doesn’t remind me of myself. The biggest challenge I had (and the most fun) with these prompts are parts where I have to step away from myself and be in the body of another person. It’s fun to do cause I like making characters in my head but making them poetry is another process. I had to act like Cinderella’s slipper, jumping from a foot to another and I had to find the right spectacles to fit. But it was really fun.

I wrote this poem freely. Like a gust of wind just passed by me and BAM, I have a poem. I focused on Hailee Steinfeld’s character in the movie because that’s what I see her style is gonna be and I married unto the idea that a strong person was never as strong as they were then compared to now. Violet, in the movie, was not exactly confident, that wasn’t her character. She looks like somebody confused and still finding herself, but I like to think that she got more freedom as she grew, especially with those people around her, she’d be exposed to different ways to express herself.

Person’s Hogwarts House: Gryffindor

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So what happened to my other explanations? I swear, my poems are more in depth than that, I want to turn them into real characters, actually, with a name and all. I already have outfits planned (hehehe).

I hope you like the poems!

PS: The pictures I used to design the poems in MS Word are not mine, and I’m kind of scared to post them because I’m not sure if I’m doing something wrong by posting them, so please inform me if I am, then I will take them down and replace them with a simpler design. Also, I get pictures through Pinterest, and I try to look for the original but I just get confused when I do because the links don’t look like the original, so credits to the owners of the pictures.

Reese Lansangan’s Of Sound Mind and Memory

I am a sucker for a good acoustic track, especially when it’s a cover. It is so simple and raw and what makes it good is the emotions brought out to it, because art, after all, is supposed to make you feel something.

Link to Of Sound Mind and Memory EP on Spotify

I forgot when I first heard Reese Lansangan but I knew where I heard her first. I heard her first from my mom; Reese’s Grammar Nazi song played on the radio and it’s such a great introduction because she appealed to our grammar Nazi hearts (though I am guilty for hardly ever being grammatically incorrect), but so far, that was the only song we heard from her. Until I fell into the Filipino Indie wagon last year and I rediscovered Reese again.

I fall in love a lot, so I decided, when I heard one of the songs in this EP, to find some time to review playlists in between studying, this way, I get to keep my messy, floaty head in check and give it some time to breathe and express itself. So, this is Reese Lansangan’s Of Sound Mind and Memory EP:

1. Aristophanes

When I first heard this song, I did not notice the auto-tune-like vocals of Reese until I decided to make this review. So, I searched through the comments of her acoustic version video to see other viewers’ reactions, that’s how I knew that it was a vocoder she was using since when performing this live, she has a keyboard in front of her.

After BTS’ Anpanman and Tear, my view on auto-tune has been changed although I don’t want them to use them live (SING!), so in this song, the auto-tune wasn’t initially obvious, it only had a group effect for me, like she’s singing with other people behind her, which gives it a haunting and sweet feel.

I didn’t experience intro tracks until BTS, so to hear this song in Reese’s EP is new to me, but after listening to the album, music-wise and lyric-wise, it was perfect. The lyrics reminded me of Regina Spektor’s way of writing because it questions life in a dreamy poetic way. I love stories that include old people sharing wisdom and in this song:

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“’Kid, one day you will grow old,

And find a love worth growing old for’

So, I am just a lonely soul.”

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Those lines were sung laced with sentimentality, and I find that beautiful; even if those words have been said more than once, but I love the phrase “lonely soul”. That phrase speaks to me personally and socially. Thinking about how many people out there are lonely souls too and are listening to this song to connect with that part of them, is beautiful.

2. Machines and Men

So, I just thought of Regina Spektor, Sara Bareilles, and Jason Mraz. (Yes, she’s good, listen to her!!!)

This is another factor of acoustic music that I like, it is light, which allows me to listen to the lyrics, and if the lyrics are as light, this is easy music. Well, lyric-wise, I don’t think this is easy music. This is where the Regina Spektor factor comes in, because her song On the Radio has lyrics that starts darkly and ends a bit lightly matched with a light happy beat which sort of echoes “sigh, life sucks, how do I work through with this, oh, Purple Rain is playing, it’s too long but it’s good, okay life, let’s do this again”. In this one, we’re described like aging robots and it starts with childhood and ends with death. I feel like, if I ever have to be a substitute teacher in Philosophy, there is bound to be a moment where I can use this song to help them understand a theory or something.

I felt like it is a mixture of Ed Sheeran’s Castle in the Hill and the first part of On the Radio. I love how she just described our bodies creatively as it ages to portray the emotion of emptiness as the person is dying.

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“And our bodies were so restless

And our bones used to be kind

And our muscles, they seemed to be so strong

And our limbs were so connected

Neurons coursing through our minds

But our parts are getting in and going wrong

We were younger then

Now decaying machines and men”

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3. For the Fickle

My mom calls my music morose and this song is proof of that because this is my favorite Reese Lansangan song.

For the Fickle – Reese Lansangan MV

The song touches on my tendency to fee lonely a lot. It also touches on the part of me that is afraid of falling in love.

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“I made a list of things I love just in case you go

All my love has been about waiting for people to go.”

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The list thing shook me because I love listing things.

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“Your love’s uncertain won’t you hold it down in chains,

Or won’t you break me now, so I won’t feel the pain.”

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At least, I think it is my fear of falling in love that gets to me. I read romance (fluffy/smutty) stories and fanfics when I want a quicker way to pass time (novels take time) so, I spend a lot of my emotion and my missing acting there. So, in one way or another, I have fallen in love, and I have had my heart broken, and as much as what I have read is fiction, we can’t make fiction out of nothing so those stories are partly real, which scares me because of how emotional I get and I’m scared that others can’t handle it. That’s why I love this song.

4. Wildwood

So…tell me you didn’t think of sunlight in the woods when you heard this song.

I love the vulnerability brought forth by the acoustic guitar and Reese’s lovely simple voice in this song. I have been thinking about healing a lot, and though I have written about BTS’ new album, I still love Epiphany and I’m still ranting about it every now and then because the music to me depicts the slow process of healing. The guitar here has such a happy note that it does not match with Epiphany, but the voice does. Reese prefers to sing in a simpler manner, she’s not exactly a powerhouse like Jin but we all deserve that kind of singing sometimes. I think that her singing draws all the emotion out because it’s as simple as the lyrics in the song.

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“And all I need

Is all that I’ll take

All I need

Is water from the purest lakes

The gentle winds,

A loaf of bread to break

And I know I’m happy now”

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I thought of Hufflepuff house the entire time when I listen to this song. It echoed that part of me that prefers a simple life than a grand one, especially since I am not an ambitious person. In a sense, the song is almost like Palette, because she’s listing the things that make up herself and she is saying that these things are all that she needs.

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I think this is a side of Reese that I didn’t expect to see. I’ve always connected to her because I feel like I’m listening to myself calming myself when I listen to her music, and this EP is a lot darker than I pegged it to be. It’s a whole journey in the span of 17 minutes, like the span of doubting yourself and convincing yourself that it’s okay can twist around the same minutes. Her music hasn’t changed except for Aristophanes that showed more than an acoustic guitar (but there is an acoustic version on youtube). Over all, I think everything here will go on my calming playlist.

I urge y’all to check her vlog out, it is such an aesthetic.

P.S. All credits of the pictures belong to the original owners, I got them all on Pinterest.

P.S.S. I would like to thank everybody who stops by to read my posts. It means so much to me. Have a nice day and remember to be yourself.

 

Songs That Remind me of City Lights

We all have a lot of moods, don’t we? Or maybe I have one too many.

I just want to share to you some songs that remind me of citylights.

1. Welcome to New York – Taylor Swift

“It’s a new soundtrack, I could dance to this beat

Forevermore

The lights are so bright, but they never blind me.”

 

How can I think of CITY lights without mentioning New York?

2. City of Blinding Lights – U2

“Time won’t leave me as I am,

But time won’t take the boy out of this man

Oh, you look so beautiful tonight

In the city of blinding lights.”

 

The intro of the song is just the perfect sound to the feeling of being mesmerized by city lights.

3. Don’t Stop Believin’ – Journey

“Strangers waiting

Up and down the boulevard,

Their shadows searching in the night.

Streetlight people,

Living just to find emotion,

Hiding somewhere in the night.”

 

Shout out to the streetlight people everywhere.

4. Ilaw sa Daan – IV of Spades

“Lahat sila ay nagkakaisa

Tumatalon, sumisigaw,

Humihiyaw ang iba sa kanila.”

 

I found this a unique song about night life but in a viewer’s point of view.

5. TOMBOY – Hyukoh

“You know you can’t immediately put off a burning fire;

I shall cheer for love.”

 

More of a lyrical than a musical choice (haha if you know me all of them are lyrical). The street lights/ city lights’ reference is somewhere there.

6. Sunshine and Citylights – Greyson Chance

“What you need to find

Is someone who never will let you go

And oh, sunshine and citylights will guide you home

And you ought to know

That I’ll never let you go.”

 

The source of the idea, really.

7. Plans – Oh Wonder

“I don’t know where the money goes,

I get broke as the city glows,

Shines bright as I sink down low.”

 

This song has a personal connection with me.

8. Bright Lights and Cityscapes – Sara Bareilles

“She is bright lights and cityscapes

And landslides and masquerades

And she’ll take all you ever have, but I’m gonna love you

You say maybe it’ll last this time, but I’m gonna love you

You never have to ask, I’m gonna love you

Till you start looking back, I’m gonna love you

So right, I wouldn’t need a second chance.”

 

I just fell in love with this okay, this is just beautiful.

9. Once Upon Another Time – Sara Bareilles

“Once upon another time,

Deciding nothing good in dying

So, I will just keep on driving

Because I was free.”

 

Yeah, so there weren’t any lights here other than porch lights, but it really did remind me of city lights and long drives.

That rhyme was unintended.

All my pictures aren’t mine, I got them all on Pinterest.