For the first time in ages, I have been just sitting down, chilling out and listening to music. Although I like being busy, and love having people around me, this evening it’s been lovely to just relax (well, I can’t exactly do much the way my back is right now!). So, I thought I’d blog about my current music obsessions and the reasons why I’m currently obsessed with them.
Plain White T’s – Hey There Delilah – I’m ashamed to say, I never heard this song until a couple of weeks ago, when my boyfriend played it on his phone while he was at my house, and it’s one of the most beautiful songs I’ve heard for a long time. I don’t know why I hadn’t heard it before, I remember it being really popular a couple of years ago, but I’m so glad I know it now – I absolutely adore it. I love the really simple acoustic-y songs, and it’s so beautiful. Learning to play it on guitar 🙂
Train – Drive By – I’ve been hearing this song on the radio for a couple of weeks, and although I was able to sing along to the chorus because I’ve heard it so many times, I never actually heard who it was by. I’m a fan of Train (another of their songs appears in this list, no prizes for guessing which one!) and when I heard this was by them, it made me love them even more. The chorus is so catchy and the words are beautiful.
Ed Sheeran – Lego House – This one is mainly for the video (Rupert Grint is amazing in it!) but I also just love the song. Yes, it’s played a lot, as is A Team (which also appears in this list), but I could listen to it all day. Again, it’s another one with beautiful lyrics, and the video is very clever – it kind of shows you that the song could be about romantic love, which is what I assumed at first, but it could also be about obsessive love, which is what the video shows.
Ed Sheeran – A-Team – I just love this one. I like the cover Birdy did of it, but Ed Sheeran is mindblowing on this one, I love the lyrics (for a girl who loves epic score instrumentals, I’m also mad on lyrics, I absolutely adore meaningful, beautiful lyrics) and the guitar. I’m learning to play this one on guitar too.
Ed Sheeran – Drunk – Yup, another Ed Sheeran song. What can I say, I think he’s great. At first, I wasn’t too keen on him, but I listened to A Team and Lego House and was keen, and then I heard this one and it sealed the deal. Gorgeous song, and I love the video, even though I don’t like cats 😛
Train – Hey Soul Sister – This one is mine and my boyfriend’s “our song” kind of thing (there are a couple of others too, but this is the one that makes me think of him every time I hear it). He played and sang it for me, not long after we got together, and although I loved it before that (I used to play it on the ukulele, which I haven’t played for ages and need to get back into!), the link to him just makes it even more special. I can’t help but smile every time it comes on the radio, and I love it when one of us plays it on guitar (he taught me to play it too!) and we sing it together. I have the lyrics printed out and blu-tacked above my bed so that before I go to sleep, I can look at them and think of the first time he sang it to me.
So that was a brief(ish) and very soppy romantic look at the songs I’m currently mad about. There are a few more (Birdy’s covers of A-Team and Skinny Love, and Winter Winds & Awake My Soul by Mumford and Sons are almost permanently on that list!) but those are the main ones!
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