My Current Music Obsessions!

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!

If I Won The Lottery…

It’s a common question – what would you do if you won the lottery?

For me, I’ve never really been completely certain of what I’d do – it seems like such an unlikely thing, I could do the lottery all my life and never win the jackpot – or even never win anything at all! – but it’s fun to dream. I would love to wake up one morning, having done the EuroMillions the night before, check my ticket and find out I’ve just won £145million. What would my reaction be?

 

So, I’d be pretty calm.

But then, after I’d been shocked, and then happy danced, and then happy danced once more and then turned into Tina Fey and fainted, and then woke up, I’d have to decide what to spend the money on. So, here’s my list of what I’d do.

 

• I’d tell hardly anyone – my boyfriend, my immediate family and I think that’s it.
• I’d call the college and tell them I’m not coming back.
• Decide not to go to university.
• Check the numbers again.
• Call up the lottery people and tell them to bring me the monehz.
• Pose with a huuuuuge cheque, a bottle of champers and my boyfriend and smile for people and talk about what a surprise it is.
• Buy a house. A really big, really nice house. Or I’d buy a small forest and build a house from scratch – I’m thinking a http://blueforest.com/bespoke-treehouses/bespoke-luxury/living-the-highlife treehouse!!!
• Buy really nice cars. BMW i8, Lamborghini Gallardo and a Mitsubishi Outlander. I’d also get a nice car for my parents.
• Buy my parents a house.
• Buy a plot of land and build a really nice theatre, solely for the use of our theatre groups 😀 (and some nice travelling companies if we feel like it). And give a lot of money to the theatre group.
• Go on an expensive, luxurious cruise with family and boyfriend, either around the world or to New York and then the Caribbean.
• HUUUUUUGE shopping spree to London, mainly to Hamleys!

This all takes place in the couple of weeks after I win. Then, more long-term –

• Get married.
• Buy a holiday home in Madrid for my family or us to use whenever we want to.
• Go and see a few more musicals.
• Go to a festival (preferably one where Mumford & Sons are playing).

There’s a lot more things I’d do – I’d love the freedom to buy whatever I want, tiny things, without stopping and thinking “Ooh, can I afford it?”. Splashing out on some really nice clothes. I’d try and buy my parents a narrow boat, as long as they promise not to go over that one in Llangollen, because just the thought of it scares the hell out of me.

It’s nice to dream – unfortunately, you then have to get back to reality and realize it’ll probably never happen. Doesn’t mean I’m not going to do the lottery and keep dreaming though! *fingers crossed*.