Mixtape Freak.

It's no secret I'm a low-key music freak, I love the radio shit, local shit, underground, weird, freakin, old shit....I like a lot of music. Stumbled across these two mixtapes and had to post. Rick Ross (the Boss) and TI put them out, and both have albums coming out later on this summer/year. More on both mixtapes and downloads can be found over here at rap-up.com

Break-Up Playlist.

So I am more or less going through a "break-up." Even though I have a sneaky suspicion that my "Banker" is going to be like Carrie's "Big"... as of right now, he's a little bit of a "Berger" (So many "b's" so many SATC references!) . I've been goin in on my i-tunes the past couple days and here is the playlist:

Alicia Keys-- Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart (duh)
Lil Wayne-- Something You Forgot
Lauryn Hill-- Ex-Factor
Trina--Single Again
Lady Gaga-- Bad Romance
Imogen Heap-- Hide and Seek
BoysIIMen-- Water Runs Dry
Rihanna-- Russian Roulette
Lil Kim--Big Mama Thang
The Cranberries--Everything I Said
Lady Gaga-- Paper Gangster
Good Charlotte-- Michelle Branch-- Good bye to you
I Don't Want to be in Love
Third Eye Blind-- Motorcycle Drive By
Ciara-- Never Ever
Black Eyed Peas-- Meet Me Halfway
Drake-- Brand New
All American-Rejects-- This Ends Tonight
Cassie-- Official Girl
Death Cab for Cutie-- The Ice is Getting Thinner
Snow Patrol-- You Could be Happy
Evanescence-- Call Me When You're Sober
Kanye West-- See You in My Nightmares
Chrisette Michelle-- Epiphany
Colin Hay-- I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You
Nelly Furtado-- Say it Right
Trina--So Fresh
Damien Rice-- Volcano
Lady Gaga--- Brown Eyes
Beyonce-- Like a Boy

This play list is a good mix of emo and boss bitch. What do you y'all listen to in times like these? I def want to add to the list!

Five Star Status---Rihanna "I'm Back"

It don't matter what I do
Always end up here with you
Baby, I'm back, back, back
Baby, I'm back, back, back
If I love something I can't pretend
I find myself in you again
I'm back, back, back, back
Baby, I'm back
Back with you again

Christmas in th Air.

This year my holiday spirit was a bit delayed. I can't pinpoint the culprit, but I think it has to do with being back in school, and like, life stress. Whatever. I got home a couple days ago and since then I am trying to pack the whole month of spirit into this last week.

First things first: the ultimate holiday music play list:

Feist-- The Park

Why would he come back through the park?
You thought that you saw him but no you did not
It's not him who'd come across
The sea to surprise you
Not him who would know
Where in London to find you

With sadness so real that it populates
The city and leaves you homeless again
Steam from the cup and snow on the path
The seasons have changed from present to past

The past
The past
Turns whole to half
The past

Why should he come back through the park?
You thought that you saw him but no you did not
Who can be sure of anything through
The distance that keeps you
From knowing the truth

Why would you think your boy could become
The man who could make you sure he was the one?

The one
My one
My one

Five Star Status Song of the Moment.

This is probably one of the most beautiful songs I know. I left it play on loop when I'm doing my process recordings for field placement. It's got wonderful lyrics. Really every Feist song on my itunes is a five star contender, it's more than the lyrics and mellow melodies... but more that she seems to "get it" ha, who knows. my brain is fried from the 16 hour day, not a good time to analyze music, but you know what I mean!

Feist--- How My Heart Behaves

What grew
What grew
What grew and inside who
First so simple was the vow
Then the chorus sang about
Your shoulder
The mooring for me
Like water lost in the sea

The cold heart will burst
If mistrusted first
And a calm heart will break
When given a shake

I'm a stem now
Pushing the drought aside
Opening up
Fanning my yellow eye
On the ferry
That's making the waves wave
Illumination
This is how my heart behaves

Newest Five-Star Status song.

This song has quickly become a favorite. I know it's not new, but it gets a lot of play up here in New York. The lyrics are surprisingly very sweet, and you know The Dream makes bangers, so the beat is on point.

The Dream-- Walkin' on the Moon
The magic of the moment snuck up on me
And caught me by surprise Roaming and I'm lonely man I'm longing
For that somethin in your eyes And I know it's not just the song
(And I know it's not just the song)
And I know it's not just the drink
(And I know it's not the drink)But whatever it might be (Whatever it might be)
Just keep holding on to me
Cause I'll pull down a cloud for you
I'll circle the stars and bring you one back
I'll walk through the sun for you
Cause there's somethin you do
That got me walking on the moon

I can't stop listening to it!

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Five Star Status Song of the Moment.

I Will Follow You into the Dark

-- Death Cab for Cutie

Love of mine some day you will die
But I'll be close behind
I'll follow you into the dark

No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white
Just our hands clasped so tight
Waiting for the hint of a spark
If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the NOs on their vacancy signs

If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

In Catholic school as vicious as Roman rule
I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black
And I held my tongue as she told me
"Son fear is the heart of love"
So I never went back

If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the NOs on their vacancy signs

If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

You and me have seen everything to see
From Bangkok to Calgary
And the soles of your shoes are all worn down
The time for sleep is now
It's nothing to cry about
Cause we'll hold each other soon
The blackest of rooms

If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the NOs on their vacancy signs

If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
Then I'll follow you into the dark

Five Star Status Contender of the Moment.

Kid Cudi--- Man on the Moon

I seriously cannot stop listening to this song. It has been on repeat on my ipod all day, thus, it is certified five stars.

I be that man on the moon
I'm that man on the moon
And imma do what I do so
Do you hey hey

Soundtracks of my life-- New York volume

Like most people with itunes and an ipod, I care about music. I'm a bog fan of the appropriate playlist for events, the right song for the car ride, the perfect track for "the moments" You can as SM or anyone who has had the pleasure of a car ride with me. I listen to most songs for 15-30 seconds and skip the the next track. I'll listen to an entire song if it fits certain criteria (which I'll have to divulge at a later date, can't dump too much neurosis in one post) Anyways, I am working on that playlist for this period of time in New York. One song on heavy rotation right now is Hot Child in the City- Pat Benatar. I'm getting super obsessed with it, and like can't stop quoting it.

1) I am hot (sweatiness wise)

2) I am hot (obviously.)

3) who doesn't like Pat B?

4) come one. It's Pat.

The lyrics break down:

Danger in the shape of somethin'

wild
Stranger dressed in black, she's a
hungry child
No one knows who she is or what
her name is
I don't know where she came from
or what her game is

duh. I always wear black. I will soon look hungry because I'm too poor to eat and I walk every where. No one can say my name and so far everyone here thinks I'm a local.

(Hot child in the city)
(Runnin' wild and lookin' pretty)
(Hot child in the city)

So young to be loose and on her
own
Young boys, they all want to take
her home
She goes downtown, the boys all
stop and stare
When she goes downtown, she walks
like she just don't care, care

No explanation needed.

(Hot child in the city)
(Runnin' wild and lookin' pretty)
Yeah
(Hot child in the city)

Come on down to my place, baby
We'll talk about love
Come on down to my place, woman
We'll make love!

This verse is curious. Not sure like--- what it's supposed to be about

Hot child in the city
(Hot child in the city)
She's kinda dangerous
(Hot child in the city)
Young child
(Runnin' wild and lookin' pretty)
Young child, runnin' wild
(Hot child in the city)

So. There you have it. This song is begging for five star status, and soon it will be rewarded.

Five Star Status Contender of the Moment.

I am a big fan of music. I listen to most anything, my itunes can shuffle in anything from Weezy to Nine Inch Nails and I'll be alright with it. That being said, I do not run from Local 506 to Cats Cradle with a copy of that weeks Independent in my hand trying to catch all the underground stuff or the Next Best Thing local act. From time to time a song will stick, sometimes I'll get over it, other times not. The ones I don't get over make there way onto a select group (the 5 star holders in my itunes library). The five star group will eventually round out to be my all time top songs. I imagine one day I'll have several, and then it would be like a boxed set, like album one: Party Poppin club shit. Album two: that mellow thoughtful heavy stuff... but I digress.

A song that is inching towards five star status is Kings of Leon's Use Somebody. It is probably the most thoughtful, romantic, sweet, this-is-how-i-hope-my-future-boy-feels song. And that means a lot coming from a girl like me who gags at people who hold hands and spoon. So, Kings of Leon, this Buds for you!

Lyrics Below. Look how sweet this is.

I've been roaming around always lookin down at all I see.
Painted faces fill the places I can't reach.
You know that I could use somebody
You know that I could use somebody
Someone like you
And all you know and how you speak
Countless lovers undercover of the street
You know that I could use somebody
You know that I could use somebody
Someone like you
Off in the night while you live it up I'm off to sleep
Waging wars to shake the poet and the beat
I hope it's gonna make you notice
I hope it's gonna make you notice
Someone like me
Someone like me
Someone like me
Somebody
(Go and let it out)
Someone like you
Somebody
Someone like you
Somebody
Someone like you
Somebody
I've been roaming around always lookin down at all I see