31 Jan 2015

Arsonist's lullaby - Hozier

Arsonist's lullaby - Hozier
When an album is so great I would like to post it all and when it's as long as 17 tracks, well... chances are you get to see a lot of posts about it! And that's what's happening with me and Hozier, not that I'm complaining at all! I recently noticed he's coming to play a couple of dates in Italy this summer, pity I won't probably be here to go see him.
This convulse week has come to an end (working time did, at least) and today in the afternoon I have been finally able to get to know a little bit more about my future! On monday I will be moving to (close to) Venezia for a month, where I will attend a training, after which I will get my first real, paid job! So, what happens now is practically that I start working by attending a 1-month intensive training course. Which pretty much means studying. It's never over!

PS: I was particularly excited when I found out that Hozier's music had been used on Teen Wolf, pretty badass soundtrack for the end of the last season, kudos!!


29 Jan 2015

Irgendwo in der Mitte - Silbermond

Irgendwo in der Mitte - Silbermond
Another unpopular (or I could say alternative, given that this is a music blog) post for today, after yesterday's...! I found myself listening to Sia's album again today, I really love it, and soon after it in alphabetical order in my iTunes are Silbermond, a German band I started listening to while preparing my German oral exam in university. I can't hide that I grew a liking for them, I had already posted a song of them here and given that I've decided to include a couple more of their Himmel auf album tracks in my next playlist, it seemed to make sense to have them here today! This is another one of my favourites on the album, the title means "Somewhere in the middle" (not that I get much else from the lyrics...!)


Wabi sabi - The Ting Tings

Wabi sabi - The ting tings
Since their breakout hit Great DJ, I have always had a great love for The Ting Tings, loved a number of tracks on their debut album, loved almost the entirety of their sophomore Sounds of nowheresville and so I was highly anticipating their next work, which came out a few weeks ago. I must confess I've not been particularly drawn to the first single out of it, released last summer, and after a few listens I'm not so enthusiastic about the whole album either. The one song that hit me was this Wabi sabi, which is an unusual pick for an electro-synthpop-dance band's 80-disco-inspired album (it's kind of a ballad)... but it is what it is, it's my currently favourite pick out of Super critical, and I'm sharing it with you!


28 Jan 2015

Big time sensuality - Björk

Big time sensuality - Björk
A few days ago Björk surprisedly released her brand new album, Vulnicura, months before the expected release, about 4 years after her latest album Biophilia (it seems like yesterday that it came out). In between the release of these two albums I completed my getting-to-know the discography of the most famous Icelandic singer-songwriter, not without difficulties. My uncompromised love for her first three albums (from Debut to Homogenic) is in total opposition to my questionable and partial appreciation for the three next releases, in particular Vespertine, which I have always had a very hard time to process, and whose (to me) unremarkable melodies annoy me more than Medulla's crazy, metallic and electrical noises. To the point that I had never listened to Biophilia yet. Until today. Well... the experience has not been unpleasing, but I can't deny it has been tough. I think there is potential for this album to grow in me more than at least a couple of his three predecessors. I haven't got the chance to listen to Vulnicura yet, but I hope I will soon and I will close my personal bjorkish circle. Yet the raw and powerful but clean musical strength of her first triad still remains unmatched in my ears...! Here is one of my favourite examples of it! And, come on, just how brilliant is this video? Genius!


26 Jan 2015

I can fly - Lana del Rey

I can fly - Lana del Rey
Hello guys, sorry I disappeared for a couple of days but it's been crazy since I came back... I had to leave for Marrakech this morning with a friend but I had to cancel the trip due to a bad fever I got, the one that probably started on my flight back from America... It makes me very sad and angry, especially for my friend who had been anticipating this trip, but even if I was undecided until the last moment, I wouldn't have actually been in a condition to travel safely, also because I would've strained myself while I need to rest. It's a bit ironic to post this song from the Big Eyes movie soundtrack today, as I actually couldn't fly, but... I hope it can prove true to you!


24 Jan 2015

Disappear - R.E.M.

Disappear - R.E.M.
"There is a calm I haven't come to yet
I spend half my life figuring what comes next
I telescoped in
I'll finally win
I'll finally win the prize
That now eyes see
A comic's perfect timing squeezed.
I'm head-first fighting everything
The crushing force of memory
Erasing all I've been
The vanishing point appears."


After many many hours of travelling I'm finally home, I took a nap, had a quick dinner and a hot bath and now I'm almost ready to get to sleep. I've not been feeling well since the flight back from America, as I've been writing before, and now I feel pain in my head when I turn it and look sideways, and the usual symptoms of fever (cold hands and stuff). I really hope I'm gonna get better soon, as my life is rapidly entering a spiral of important events! I'll just tell you that (if nothing goes wrong) I'm gonna be on a plane again on monday! Life aside, I was uncertain whether to play some music while having my bath, and when I decided not to, I plugged in the radio! Then after a quick look at my CD library my eye fell on R.E.M.'s Reveal and the song I'll take the rain came to my mind, I decided to play it in shuffle mode (and of course it was the first one to play)! The one that touched me more strongly this time though has been Disappear, another favourite from the album! The lyrics are quite meaningful for me now, I hope they resound in you too!


"I looked for you and everywhere.
I looked for you and everywhere.
Tell me why you're here.
I came to disappear."

23 Jan 2015

Candela - Noelia

Candela - Noelia
Hello people! First of all, I noticed that we broke through the +3.000 milestone on the blog, so happy about that, thanks to you all! Second of all, I am now in Paris, just got off my transatlantic flight from the Caribbean, I'm already kind of sick (thanks, Air France, for the crazy air conditioning) and waiting with my father for our flight back home. During this week in the Caribbean I have developed a pretty strong intolerance to Latin music, especially when it was forced on me (i.e. all the time), but I needed to post this to celebrate this trip, also because it's been a favourite of mine when it came out in Europe in the early 2000s. So, this is to celebrate and to hope that I won't get another flu or whatever anytime soon...! See you all soon!


22 Jan 2015

Girls just wanna have fun - Cyndi Lauper

Girls just wanna have fun - Cyndi Lauper
A little while ago I started listening to new music, but the beginning of this 2015 has been a much more favourable time for retrieval of old favourites than for new explorations. Nonetheless I devoted a little time to my "new" discoveries, one of which is the greatest hits of Cyndi Lauper, which is not really "new"; moreover it has been lingering in my library for ages. But its time has come, and after a few listens I have been enjoying a few songs already, even if the thing that struck me the most is the (at times) super marked resemblance of Cyndi's voice with Patti Smith's. Is it just me or sometimes they sound alike? Anyway, I choose to post this song, which is widely popular (even if I hardly knew it, if at all, before putting it in my library). Because a girl gotta have fun. Well, a boy does too, doesn't he?


21 Jan 2015

Evolution - Anastacia

Evolution - Anastacia
You might have noticed that I recently have been to a couple Anastacia gigs (well, it was one, but then it was postponed even if she kind-of performed but had almost no voice left due to a cold), and this is probably the one song out of her latest album, Resurrection, that I enjoyed the most, especially the first time. Besides me liking the concept of evolution and the song itself before, the liking got to a whole new level when she made us perform the "back-up vocals" in the live concert, divided into two groups (one singing "evolution, evolution" and the other "no one stays the same, everyone must change", if you listen to the song you'll understand)! I really enjoyed that part, and since then, especially since the latest concert, the song kind of lingered in my mind and today it came back out strongly, so it seemed legit to post it! Hope you enjoy it!


20 Jan 2015

Bad - U2

Bad - U2
Bad. Like the excursion we made today to Isla Saona, a most loved trip by people according to reviews on the internet, a most useless waste of time and money, if you want my side of the story. The water in the sea was dirty with seaweeds and not at all better than that in front of our hotel, same applies to the beach. The only good part was when I swam a little farther from the beach, but then people didn't want us to get too far. So ok, practically it's like "stay here in the dirty water".
Bad. Not like swimming in nice Caribbean water and having close encounters with starfish, first mediated by the guys and then in the "wild" sea!
Bad. Like wasting hours of transport to get to a place that was no better than the one we left and that offered no particular thing that was worth the trip.
Bad. Like the continuous effect that loud Latin music has on me. Can't stand it anymore is an euphemism.
Bad. Not like listening to music on the seaside, relaxing and always finding the right song for the moment.
Bad. Not at all like this song. One of my U2 favs!


19 Jan 2015

Sedated - Hozier

Sedated - Hozier
Better not forget the good music I put in my playlist (and then almost paid no attention to, but it's always like this when I interrupt my daily routine, it's very hard to focus on new and current music)! One more Hozier song for you from Dominican Republic, where the colours are beautiful, the weather is warm and where I touched a stingray, swam through fish and on the coral reef (?), or so they say, and where the sunsets are... Caribbean! Really, beautiful colours!


18 Jan 2015

Lovely day - ∆ (Alt-J)

Lovely day - ∆
Day 3 of DR holiday! Today I woke up with the awesome sound of my baggage rolling in the room (no, it's not deep!), pulled by my father who found a notice outside our door! Finally I got my stuff! Almost immediately the phrase "Reunited with my bag" came to my mind, and it was as much immediately followed by "and with you, Taro", rephrasing a lyric of Alt-J's song Taro. All of this to explain why I ended up listening to ∆ today and why I'm posting them, more in particular a song out of their latest album which came out a few months ago.
Music apart, today I took a walk 'on the wild side' (literally) with my father, as we walked on the foreshore moving out of the beach of our hotel and inside the wilder Caribbean, just to be struck by a (very Caribbean) quick rain storm, soaked to the skin and blown by the wind. Sometimes the comfort zone ain't that bad, is it?! Notwithstanding the weather (we didn't really see the sun clearly at all today), it's been a lovely day! Hope tomorrow is gonna be even better!

Funny fact: At one point, while listening to Alt-J on the poolside, a Latin music started playing quite loud so that I could hear it, and in my mind a picture (more kind of a video actually) formed with the singer Joe (in the picture above) singing the songs kind of against the Latin music, overcoming it when his singing in my earplugs was stronger than it! I was half asleep on the lounger but the scene was very vivid in my mind!! I found it very entertaining!




17 Jan 2015

Pretty when you cry - Lana del Rey

Pretty when you cry - Lana del Rey
Day 2 in Dominican Republic, actually day 1 of real full-time holiday as we arrived last night just in time for dinner! I am already emitting heat from all over my body, even if I just exposed my skin to the "sun" this morning and the weather was pretty cloudy and quickly changing, so not much exposure at all! And quite a bit of sun-cream too! I hope it's gonna be alright! My baggage is still lost somewhere around the world and the situation is getting hard with clothes and stuff (bring me my stuuuuuuff!!!!), I hope everything's gonna turn out fine! I've been listening to some last summer playlists on the beach and Lana's seemed a pretty fitting music for the context, so I also listened to her whole album Ultraviolence, which you know BY HEART by now (I hope you do, with all the posts I wrote about it!!). This is one of the few songs I love on it that I haven't posted already, and it finds its time and space here and now, hope you enjoy, bye bye!


16 Jan 2015

Fire meet gasoline - Sia

Fire meet gasoline - Sia
Hello people! After many many hours of travelling, I am finally almost on the other side of the world! Ok, maybe not THAT far away, but it feels like it! I finally reached Dominican Republic to have a 1-week holiday with my father, and I'm already thrilled, even if my baggage has remained in Paris (for now). We already had a nice buffet dinner and enjoyed a Broadway Musicals show since we came to the hotel a couple hours ago, but the song I'm posting is related to my long plane trip from Paris to Punta Cana, 9 hours and half of cramped seats and pushy people! Luckily enough, the entertainment on board was quite nice, there were the usual movies (I watched a couple, let's say one and a half as I was almost sleeping at one point), but also games and of course music! Nice music! I created a playlist with songs from some of my favourite albums of last year, by London Grammar, Imagine Dragons, Lykke Li and of course Sia! Even if while this song was playing I was asleep (I actually slept for almost the whole duration of the music play), it still stuck in my mind and given that I hadn't posted it already, here it is!
Once again, as usual when I'm away from home I might delay and/or miss some posts, so I'm sorry in advance, I'll do my best to keep the flow regular and constant (while also enjoying my Caribbean trip at the fullest)!!! Burn with me tonight!


15 Jan 2015

Paid my dues - Anastacia

Paid my dues - Anastacia
Here I am, just back from my Anastacia concert in Milan (take 2). Some of you might recall that she had no voice during her performance in November and to compensate her deficiency, she performed another show for free for all of us who had come to the previous gig! This time she rocked the house with her super powerful voice at its best, but I must confess I liked a couple of songs better the other time, even with her difficulties...! This is not one of them, and I'm very glad that she actually paid her dues to us all, she did it beautifully! And now, ready to board on a couple of planes tomorrow, I'll give you more news when I get there!


13 Jan 2015

Dirty paws - Of monsters and men

Dirty paws - Of monsters and men
After being in love with their music for quite a while and also attending a concert of theirs, today I finally bought OMAM's debut album, 'My head is an animal'!! I entered the multimedia store in Milan with the aim of wandering around the CDs area and this was my first aim, but I couldn't find it in the pop/rock section, the same way as I couldn't find any of the other albums I was looking for. And then I found myself in the sales aisle and... voilà! Here it was, at 6.99€! Took it and brought it home! One less CD in my list of items to buy! Yay!


12 Jan 2015

It will come back - Hozier

It will come back - Hozier
I was just scrolling down my last dozen posts and I realised I didn't post quite as much Hozier as I thought I did and as I wanted to! His eponymous debut album is for sure the one I've been listening to lately that I love the most, it's been my favourite listen since the last weeks of last year and I'm still enjoying it a lot, so it's definitely time to share with you one more song, especially as I've been listening to my playlist with some songs of his first and then to the whole album while I was getting my baggage ready and cleaning my room! Yes, I'm about to leave again soon...! I'll let you know more in the next few days, tomorrow I'll move back to Milan for starters. But let's not rush time and enjoy Hozier for now!

PS: I am amazed by how awesome and similar to the recorded version these live sessions are, just.... wow!



#sundayrevival Halo - Florence + the Machine

Halo - Florence + the Machine
It's (3 hours and a half past) sunday, so it's (still) time for a sundayrevival post! Given that all the music I've been listening to in the last few days is either not old enough for this or from singers I have already posted about recently, it seemed to me that the only source of inspiration that I could get from is the USB key I have in my car, with a few dozen of some of my all-time favourite songs. What have I been listening to recently? The only song that comes to my mind is this beautiful, beautiful cover. Premise: I loved Halo as a song (goodness bless Ryan Tedder) since it got out. After I discovered this cover during my utmost-love-for-Florence period a few years ago, at first I was kind of disoriented, but after a couple of listens I totally fell in love with it and now I can't even get to listen to the "original" version... just to say that in my opinion this is one of the most amazing and magic things I have ever listened to! If you feel disoriented too, listen to it again. And then once again. And then you'll never be able to stop...


11 Jan 2015

A me me piace o blues - Pino Daniele

A me me piace o blues - Pino Daniele
Hello there! It's 4 in the morning and I still haven't posted a thing! Crazy night out? Yeah of course! ... Joking! I went out with a couple of friends to get something (a hot chocolate for me, as I'm taking antibiotics) and I was back by midnight. Then I had a few things to do in my One piece video game and... time flew by and here I am! Now it's time to sleep, as I have to wake up for lunch at grandparents' tomorrow! But not before posting something! After the bad news about Pino a few days ago, I put some of my old time favourites in the current playlist, songs I know by heart but haven't been listening to for years! It's so crazy and sad how you really need somebody to die to be reminded about them...


9 Jan 2015

See you when you're 40 - Dido

See you when you're 40 - Dido
I don't know why, but I found myself listening to more and more Dido today, first only on the computer, than also with my ipod (and my new bluetooth earphones I got for my graduation!) walking in the streets of town and then cleaning home and finally also with my old ipod while having a quick shower! I still can't figure out what the trigger was, but I found myself having her song 'Go dreaming' in my head, and so it all started from there! I didn't even remember I posted a song of hers already a few days ago, and then I realised that I've been mainly focusing on her latest album, that is also my least favourite, and on her first album, which I love unconditionally. A love that is (almost) equally directed towards her second album, Life for rent, which I spent my whole teenage years listening to. I thus wanted to post 'I'm no angel' out of her debut, but I wanted to give some room to Life for rent more, and so here I am with See you when you're 40, a song that I remember I liked at the very beginning, then it kind of got lost just to be found again and fully understood and appreciated just in the last few years, to become one of the songs I love a lot (like, a lot!) on an album that I love a lot (like, a lot!). The song is about Dido struggling to end her relationship with a man she's attracted to but who is not good for her, up to the point when she finally decides that it's time to leave. Of course I didn't understand it fully when I was younger, I only loved the melody, but now I do and it's even more beautiful in my ears!


Au revoir - OneRepublic

Au revoir - OneRepublic
Loads of coverage for Elastic heart, the song I posted yesterday! Seems like lots of people got offended and touched regarding issues of pedophilia that might be suggested by video, an impression that personally didn't occur to me at all, I understand and empathize with the bad situations some people have been through, but I deem them intelligent enough to understand that this is art and dancing, and it has nothing to do with molestation and violence. My opinion is that people who get offended by potential pedophilia references should look for it back into their own eyes. Well, that's enough talk about a song that is not even the one I'm posting today!! Something much less troublesome today (I hope), I got back listening to OneRepublic (don't know why) and I found this song on my mind again: I noticed it for the second time, the first being right before their November concert in Milan. I thus decided to include it in the playlist I'm building, and I'm posting it here too! Also, given that bad attack that took place in Paris yesterday, I'll take it as a chance to say au revoir to the people who were so violently attacked and killed...


7 Jan 2015

Elastic heart - Sia

Elastic heart - Sia
Just a few days after I picked Elastic heart as my favourite song of 2014, Sia released for it an(other) awesome video with Maddie Ziegler and, this time, also Shia LaBoeuf. I already professed my love for this song more than once, so I don't think I need to say anything more about it, and the very fact that I picked it as my fav in a year which has been of great musical inspiration for me should be enough to tell you how much I care for it! The version of the song featured in this video is the one found on Sia's album '1000 forms of fear', while the one I posted last February (and my favourite, probably because it's the one I fell in love with) is the one featuring Diplo and The Weeknd, used in the Hunger Games: Catching Fire movie soundtrack. What more? I think you'll just love the video, I'd love to hear your interpretation of it so feel free to comment anywhere and start a discussion! Cheers!


It's never over (hey Orpheus) - Arcade Fire

It's never over (hey Orpheus) - Arcade Fire
As I have mentioned many times, my friends are a constant inspiration for me in terms of music (and many other things), and lately I have been exchanging suggestions with my friend B. in particular. This is an album that I bought online 3 copies of, one for me and two for two friends of mine, her and E, as we all loved Arcade Fire. The album is quite tough, but after a few listens I got the hang of it and started loving it a lot, while I didn't get much positive feedback from them. She recently told me she was about to approach it again, and she did this morning, thus making me willing to listen to it again while I was taking a shower and getting ready to get out of home for the first time after some 10 days! Needless to say, I enjoyed it a lot, but I am kind of at a loss as I posted already practically all of the songs I love on it, and that I would love to share with you again. The real pity is that I posted them at the beginning, when the blog still had virtually no audience, so it's been kind of a waste, but well... when I decide it's time to start re-posting some stuff, I'll advertise them again! For now I'm playing my trump card, that is Orpheus! This song is quite long and heavy to digest, but the guitar riff is quite catchy and will stick in your head like candy syrup, I'm sure!


6 Jan 2015

Amore senza fine - Pino Daniele

Amore senza fine - Pino Daniele
Today I woke up with the very sad news that Pino Daniele has died... he wasn't even 60 years old and he was struck by a heart attack. He was from Naples and was probably the most famous Italian blues singer/songwriter, but most importantly was the singer whose songs I grew up with when I was a little kid, as my parents used to listen to him a lot. It is very sad and despicable that we tend to remember people especially when they die, but that's it, probably realising that you'll never get anything else from that person, no more albums, no more concerts... I'm glad I got the chance to see him once here in my hometown with my parents, it has actually been my first music concert ever! In this period of huge changes, more and more parts of my past are detaching from me, I hope that this is enough for now! This was my favourite song when I was a child, hope you like it!


4 Jan 2015

I put a spell on you - Annie Lennox

I put a spell on you - Annie Lennox
Uff, this morning's been tough, I woke up like 5 or 6 times with my throat and mouth totally dry, never happened to me! After this harsh beginning things got better and I ended up feeling kinda better than yesterday, even if my nose and head are totally blocked! Really, I've never had anything like that, not that I can remember! It really feels like somebody put a spell on me... not the kind that Annie Lennox is singing about I guess!


To be alone - Hozier

To be alone - Hozier
I think the flu I'm going through is the worst one as far as I can remember, and I've had quite a few... I got a temperature right after xmas, then almost a week of weird cold, up to yesterday when everything got watery and I've been blowing my nose like every minute... and now I feel the shivers and pains of fever again. Gosh, will it ever end? I hate, hate, hate goddamn winter, realllly wanna move somewhere warm!! I've been locked up inside my house since the 27th of December, except for a few hours at new year's eve. I wouldn't mind going around and seeing people, doing things, but for now I think I'll accept Hozier's offer to be alone!


3 Jan 2015

Lifeline - Imogen Heap

Lifeline - Imogen Heap
After summing up the best picks of 2014, it's time to start with individual posting again! This song is from another very good album that was released last year, maybe without much spotlight, but it deserves some attention, especially as far as the creation phase is concerned. Imogen is now pregnant, so I don't expect she will be fully pursuing her music career anytime soon, but I would really love to get the chance to attend a concert of hers! In the meanwhile, let's just enjoy her latest record!


2 Jan 2015

#yearinmusic A song or two per day - 2014 in music

Hello folks! 2014 has gone by and I haven't summed it up musically yet, so I decided to do this directly on the blog, to share my best picks of this past year with you all in case you overlooked them or missed them altogether!
So, let's begin!

First there is the most difficult category, that is the best song of 2014, meaning the song that has been most meaningful for me last year. I will build a quadrumvirate, yet even if I don't feel comfortable picking one of them over the others, I dare say that Elastic heart would be the first pick.
Best songs 2014
Hey now is the first song I ever listened of London Grammar (goodness bless KEXP and their live recordings) and it started my path of love with them. London Grammar have been, probably together with Imagine Dragons, my "best new band" of 2014, and that gives you a measure of how much I grew to like them in less than one year. The story of America is very similar, I remember falling in love with it one time it was playing in the office early last year, in the period when I was listening to Imagine Dragons and getting to know them myself. Beautiful combo, which brought it to be my alarm call song for quite a long time!
Elastic heart is the representation of great soundtrack music: I obsessed over Catching Fire's soundtrack (as you might have noticed) and this is my favourite song out of it, together with Shooting arrows at the sky. I picked this one because it made me curious about Sia, and brought me to listen to her latest album, which I loved so much!
Lastly, in chronological order, Every other freckle has become kind of an obsession soon after Alt-J's sophomore album came out, it stood out immediately as my favourite in an album that I utterly loved and still love. The cat of the video has become highly representative for me (just check the cover image of the blog's Google+ page)!!

Moving on to albums, I am once again in a difficult position, as many great CDs have seen the light in 2014: U2, Tori Amos, Hozier, Lykke Li, Hundred waters and more have released awesome albums that found their way deep into my heart. Yet I decided to pick three albums that made it a step deeper than the others.
Best albums 2014
After scoring my favourite song of the year, Sia didn't disappoint me with her album either: it took me a while to appreciate Chandelier, which then went on to have a (deserved) huge success. I didn't fall in love with the other songs immediately either, but after a few listens the album pierces through your heart and won't ever leave. Great, awesome pick. Don't make the mistake to overlook it or to just stick to Chandelier. There are many other great(er) songs in there!
Same line of reasoning goes for Alt-J's This is all yours, a highly expected album by me (and many others) which, I am confident to say, didn't disappoint. I am still not sure whether the level is as high as An awesome wave's, but their debut album is so, so great that even being slightly less awesome than it, would make their sophomore one of the albums absolutely not to miss in 2014!
The last one of the three is the one that didn't score any song in my top ranking, maybe because they are all so good that none of them really stood out (if I were to choose I'd probably pick Florida kilos, one of the deluxe edition bonus tracks)! When West coast first came out I kind of hated it, as I did with practically all Lana songs. In this case, I didn't grow an utmost love for it, as I still think it's one of the weakest songs of the album, but let's say I don't dislike it. West coast aside, the rest of the album is... just wow! Just go give it 5 to 10 listens, it's gonna become your favourite album of 2014, as it did for me!!

Well, here it is! 2014 is gone, but its great music will stay! Now I'm hoping for a great 2015 in music, as I'm waiting for new albums by my favourite artists, mainly Florence + the Machine and PJ Harvey, both of whom have not released any albums since 2011! Don't keep us waiting too long girls!

Girl who got away - Dido

Girl who got away - Dido
To celebrate the first post of this 2015 (late, of course, it wouldn't be me otherwise!) I decided to go back one more year instead, back to 2013. I mean, it was not an explicit decision, but my inspiration took me back there. I was skimming through my library for other new year's day-themed songs (besides U2's New Year day, that I posted one year ago already), and I was not very hopeful to find any. One of them was actually on Dido's latest album (taking away her best of), but it was the song on the album I like the least, and I don't count myself among the big fans of the album, so... it wasn't the right one. But given that I was on topic already, why not post something else from there, something I like way better? Girl who got away is the track also giving the title to the album, and its lyrics sounded like a good message to start the year, maybe a bit revisited!
In this new year I'm carrying with me old hopes and resolves, whose realization I keep putting my faith in, but also a great excitement for a new chapter of my life, whatever and wherever it will be... I wanna meet more interesting people, keep in contact with the ones I met already, do new things and especially visit new places!
If only for 2015 I wanna be the boy who got away, the one who took on a new path, the young man who had to become a little wilder.
If only for today I wanna be the girl who got away, the lover who really loved, the dancer who danced 'til the last dance.