Favourite Purchases of 2011

As we're having to say goodbye to 2011 tomorrow I thought I'd post about some of my favourite purchases that I've made this year. 

Matalan

I actually got a coat this year, my lesson was learnt after a cold 2010. I kind of wish I'd gone for this in one size down but then it's useful for when I have to layer up! I completely adore this colour even with the vast amount of times I've been called red riding hood. 

left - Boohoo & right - New Look

 The boots on the left I posted about yesterday so I wont repeat myself but as I love them so much they had to be included in this post. I've genuinely had them at the side of my bed since I got them. The heels on the right are very special to me. One because they are my prom shoes and two (mainly this one) I can actually walk in these, fairly confidently even if I do say so myself.

Models Own Website

 I think most of us remember the Models Own 50% off sale, don't we. It was bittersweet, the ordering being a little bit of a nightmare but the customer service from the Models Own team was really amazing and they deserve medals for it. Then of course, the sweet part was receiving it! These two are my favourites out of the ones I got. 

Apricot

I got this in the sale and have worn it so many times. I will say that I usually wear it with thick leggings or trousers rather than the tights in the picture - I wore a tube skirt underneath this to save my dignity! This is really summery, comfortable and girly. I love it because I don't feel I have to put much with it, an nice easy outfit in my opinion!

James Corden - May I have your attention, please? & Ed Sheeran - + (christmas presents but probably Tesco and Amazon/HMV)

I read James Corden's book in  two days and a bit of an evening. I love it and him. Admittedly, having watched his Piers Morgan  Life Stories there were some bits I knew about but they were more detailed in the book and the majority of it was new to me. It's entertaining and eye opening, before Piers Morgan's show, I had no idea about his time kind of 'off the rails' for lack of a better phrase but he talks really openly.

Ed Sheeran, you beautiful man. His album is so good, I'd heard most of the songs before I got it but that didn't matter to be honest, it was still so good. Only found the cheeky extra track on track 12 on about my fifth time replaying the album. Yep, I do that. The album seems to go really fast and it's perfect to revise to.

One Direction - Up All Night

&Sorry about the blurry photo but you get the idea! I love this album so ridiculously much, it is in fact playing while I type this. I played it almost solidly for two weeks when I got it, people seem to think I'm exaggerating when I say this, I'm not.

Belt - H&M

       I'd been after a plaited belt for ages. At the end of 2011 I have acquired two or three. The best is by far my H&M one as it was a steal at something like £3.

Primark - £2.50

I'm not a big jewellery person, at all, but I do adore this ring. The price was lovely as well!

Primark - £12

Without a doubt, this was one of the best things I got in 2011. My friend and I looked in the women's section for onesies but they were all plain blue with one cupcake on, so we headed to the men's section. We found this beauty and were sold. It is so so warm and perfect for sleeping in, although I don't sleep with it zipped up as I got too warm one night, tried to unzip it but I'd slept on my hand and so i was, effectively, trapped in my onesie. Still love it though. 

So there we are, my favourite purchases of 2011. If you've done a post like this then I'd love to see it! 

I hope you have a truly wonderful new year, however your're spending it. 

Here's to 2012.

Victoria x

The Strength of British Music

Did you know that from 23rd July 2011 - 1st October 2011 there was a British artist at number one in the singles chart. (here & here). 2011 has been a massive year for music in Britain. This year we've seen so many artists 'break through' and finally get recognised. There's been Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Wretch 32 and Katy B to name a few. Not only have we had loads of new music this year but we've had some of our 'more established' artists come back stronger than ever, for example Coldplay headlined Glasto and T in the Park and the Arctic Monkeys headlined Oxegen and V and of course Adele came back and owned the charts for 18 weeks overall. 

via; here.

The shape of the music industry has changed as well, I think we've finally accepted Girls Aloud aren't going to re-form and the only girl band that are massive right now are The Saturdays who are releasing their new album in November. Wonderland have appeared this year though and been nominated for a DMA for break through. Whereas, we've gone from no boy bands to several. I remember watching JLS audition for the X Factor in 2009 and thinking that they've got a really good chance of getting somewhere, not only because of their talent but also because there was a gap in the market for a boy band. Take That were quiet in 2009. Mcfly were touring a little but weren't at the top like they had been before. So there was a JLS shaped gap that they were ready to fill. 

Two years on and there definitely isn't a gap anymore. JLS are releasing their third album, Jukebox, in November of this year. Mcfly are stronger than ever, and writing their sixth album (and of course Tom got engaged). The Wanted exploded on to the scene with All Time Low and now have a massive fan base and continued hits. Their new release Lightning looks as though it is set for number one this weekend as well.Take That got Robbie back and went on tour after releasing their album Progress which became the fastest selling album of the century. Also, as  I am incredibly sure you will know, One Direction graduated X Factor in 3rd place and now have a number one and an album on the way and of course an inZAYNly (I'm sorry I had to) massive fan base.  

Our solo artists are massive right this year as well. Professor Green is releasing his second album which includes the amazing single Read All About it which features up and coming Emeli Sande. Ed Sheeran has become massive and is on tour now, Example has had another strong year so far playing a crazy amount of festivals and his third album was released in September and went to number one. Dappy went solo and to number one. Jessie J won 4 mobo's and has kept going even through her broken foot. We've also got Tinchy Stryder, Tinie Tempah, Devlin, Pixie Lott and Chipmunk going strong among many others.

SB.TV(also here) has contributed massively to British music by finding up and coming artists and giving them a platform to be heard and recognised. SB.TV has also finally had proper recognition this year by being nominated for awards, the Google Chrome advert about SB.TV founder Jamal Edwards and being given their own show Inside SB.TV: From bedroom to boardroom. They also have their own label now and signed Maxta. 

Get ready because this is going to sound corny, but I'm pretty proud of British music right now. There is so much talent and we've got a bit of everything right now. The strength and quality of British music right now is amazing. 

What do you think?

Victoria x

all images other than captioned found via google search. 

Social Media and The Music Industry

credit: from; here, via; google search.

The music industry has obviously been around for a very long time whereas Social media is relatively new. Recently we have seen social media explode. Everyone and their mothers either use or at least know of the main social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. However, other social media sites are becoming increasingly popular, especially in terms of blogging like Tumblr, Blogger and FlickR for example. There are of course thousands of social media sites, too many to even begin to name. I also believe that recently the advances in social media and the increased use of it has had amazing benefits for the music industry.

The BT Digital Music Awards were on the 29^th September 2011 (aired on ITV2 ON 3^rd October) and these awards are proof that the advances in technology have effected the industry as it is all about the digital side, obviously. We also see this in the download charts, which don’t take into consideration when the music is bought in a hard copy. These awards showed a video as a feauture about social media and the music industry and it relayed to me some thoughts and ideas that I had noticed lately.

One of the main points that was put across in this video and that I think anyone with Twitter will have noticed is that it is easier for artists to support and even promote each other now. I don’t think a day goes by without us seeing several artists tweeting to their fans to go and buy or at least listen to another artist’s music. I don’t believe that this type of support was so easily given before the use of social media as it was just not as easy to do..Twitter is a very simple, quick and effective method of promotion because in a matter of seconds you have sent something that potentially hundreds, thousands or millions of people could see. (For example, Justin Bieber is on over thirteen million followers.) We see twitter used as a promotion tool daily and often it can seem quite corporate when used by companies but when an artist is tweeting from a ‘personal’ account shall we say, I think it gives the industry and the people on the front on the industry a better image. We cannot forget that obviously these artists are in competition with each other, they all want that number one album or single, they want everyone to enjoy listening to their music and watching their videos but as Example said in the video for the DMA’s he see’s it as though if one artist does well then another will. I can see the logic in this, especially with social media because If one artist is very successful and gets a wide following and then tweets or shares an artist with their fan base who will likely take the recommendation and check the artist out and new fans and exposure are bound to be gained.

Social media also closes the gap between the artist and the fans. The use of social media sites now means the artists can give information and communicate directly to fans or upload videos and images themselves making the artist seem more of a person than a brand or business. I think Twitter is the main tool for this but artists can now blog as well for example and their fans can follow for more detailed updates and information. Blogs will once again seem more personal than a news letter sent en mass from someone’s HQ.

Social media is also an amazing platform for success. The story of Jamal Edwards, founder of SBTV, who created a business stemming from his Youtube account. His success through using social media was shown through the recent Google chrome advert. You can see this below.

Ed Sheeran is also an exceptional example of success via social media. His success must not be slimmed down to just being through social media, Ed Sheeran did hundreds of shows and worked tremendously hard to get to where he is, but I think social media definitely helped his success. He said in the video about social media on the DMA’s that by using social media you can create a fan base for yourself. This can be done even when labels aren’t interested. Myspace and especially YouTube are often used for this. The fact that artists can independently build up their fan base is a massive step forward in the music industry and it’s down to social media for providing the ease of communication and sharing of information. I’ve put his Something For The Weekend interview below as he explains how he began in the industry but there are lots of interviews on YouTube.

A lot of these points were put across in the feature on the Digital Music Awards and I’m so glad they were because they’ve been becoming more evident recently in my opinion and I think social media does need to be recognised for the changes it is creating. We mustn’t assume that there are no negatives with social media and the music industry, for example it is now possibly considered easier for people who wish to, to write very mean and sometimes unacceptable things in relation to shared media. However, in this post I did want to focus on the positives but  I wanted to at least address the fact that there are negatives associated.

If you didn’t watch the BT Digital Music Awards you can do so here and If this topic does interest you then It really is worth a watch.

Do you think social media benefits the music industry?
Victoria 

Seas would rise when I gave the word.

Basically, I did photograph my outfit today but from a dodgy angle because I didn't have time to stack things up to get the right height, sounds professional i know, so I put a picture of a pretty flower. 

Started sixth form, had one lesson today because of all the introduction stuff and a free and ended up finishing twenty minutes early, had to wait for people walking though. bummer. The dress code is a bit sucky because in my opinion it doesn't really factor in modern clothing/fashion, but maybe you can't expect it to? Anyways. 

Music:

Gravity - Embrace

Your Song - One Direction 

Run for your Life - Matt Cardle

Cheers - Rihanna

                                                      Check Yes Juiliet - We the Kings (Acoustic Version, both good though)

The Scientist - Coldplay

With Me - Sum 41

Never Grow Up - Taylor Swift 

That's basically the gist of what I'm listening to right now. One Directions version of Your Song is seriously lovely and rediscovered We The Kings this week. 

Too many of the songs in the charts right now, to me, seem to be along the same kind of line. About being on the dance floor and the DJ or whatever. I get that dance music has a big audience, myself included sometimes, but the fact that it's dance music doesn't mean it can't be about something or have a message. Example manages this in Stay Awake, explained here, I think anyway. Mini moan over. 

Any music suggestions? I will listen to anything once :)

Victoria x

did we chase the rabbit into wonderland?

picture of the moon out a window in my house. 

There is going to be a lot of Ed Sheeran. 

Play List:

U N I - Ed Sheeran 

Sofa - Ed Sheeran 

Stay Awake - Example

Autumn Leaves - Ed Sheeran 

Skinny Love - Birdy Version

Breakfast at Tiffanys - Deep Blue Something

Just For Tonight - One Night Only 

Best Thing You Never Had - Beyonce

Super Bass - Nicki Minaj (yep - defintely learnt the raps)

Karma - The Saturdays 

I told you there would be a lot of Ed Sheeran - and I held back. 

Music you love? I'll give anything a listen once. 

Victoria x

my IDEAL festival

here.

Seeing as its the festival season. Glasto has just gone, T in the park is happening and Reading, V and Latitude among others are yet happen. It's unlikely that your going to like every single artist on a line up at one of these because well there is usually quite a few so I've decided to create my own. This is where my festival comes in, perfectly crafted for me. 

Rules: 5 headliners. 15 other acts. 2 presenters. 1 style Icon.

They can be dead, alive, broken up or still together. Anything goes really. 

Five Headliners:  Beyonce. Queen. Adele. Lady Gaga. Coldplay

15 others: Sweedish House Mafia. Katy Perry. Mcfly. Chipmunk. N-dubz. Ed Sheeran. Example. Tinie Tempah. Scouting for Girls. Deep Blue Something.The Script. Boys Like Girls. Rihanna. Taylor Swift. We the Kings. 

2 Presenters: Fern Cotton. Rick Edwards .. (and me.. obvs) 

1 Style Icon: Karen Gillan

Brief  Descriptions:


Headliners - Beyonce because we all saw her at glastonbury and lets be honest that would be a good thing to repeat. Queen because it would be amazing and the atmosphere would be crazy. Adele because she would play on the last day of my festival just to give a chilled vibe. Lady Gaga because the performance/show would be amazing. Coldplay because T in the Park made me love them.

Others - I've tried to create a varied line up. A little bit of quite a few things.

Presenters - Fearne Cotton because I want her job (and to be her best friend). Rick Edwards because he's hilarious and I'm gutted he's leaving T4!

Style Icon - This was a difficult one. I wanted to stray from the obvious Alexa Chung and Kate Moss. I opted for Karen Gillan because one, she seems lovely and two her style is amazing.

(I can't remember where I found these, usually through google searches but if anyone knows any more specific places please let me know, not mine.)

I want the mud, the rain and the sun. 

And yes, I would definitely want the Rooney's there. 

What do you think of my festival? I'd love to read what your ideal festival would be!

Victoria x

Run away with me and experience something new

Cee Lo Greens video for his single I Want You is out and oh my, it is amazing. 

His outfits are so beautifully extravagant. The detailing is just so stunning and delicate. More videos should have costumes like this.

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The pictures were the best stills I could find of the video, but you really should watch the video to get the full 'experience' of them. 

The song isn't too hard on the ears either, I'll admit it, I've had a few sing a longs.

Are you as amazed as me by this or have you seen better?

Victoria xo 

Price Tag - Jessie J ♪

I love this.
Take a listen, the lyrics are so good! 

Love Victoria xo 

science & faith.

The Script - Science and Faith 

"You wont find faith or hope down a telescope

you wont find heart and soul in the stars 

you can break everything down to chemicals 

but you can't explain a love like ours"

Love Victoria xo 

Weekly Playlist.

found on weheartit from here

So I've kind of lacked in my 'listening to this week' posts over the Christmas/NY/going back to school period. Buttttttt, I don't like the title, so I'm changing it. simples ;). Anddddd, I think I'm going to just list and link the songs instead of putting youtube videos for them on here, because this means I can list more songs without having to fiddle around with the videos and all that plusss I need to do some homework. I'll probs change it back to the old way next week, knowing me. I got half way through two pieces last night but stopped because I couldn't do them. Good attitude ey, so back to them I go. 

Anyway, look how I ramble. 

Playlist

Fight For This Love - Cheryl Cole

Candle in the Wind - the Rebecca Ferguson version  

(seriously can't stop listening to it!) 

High School Never Ends - Bowling for soup 

(just discovered this band this weekend! exciting stufffffff) 

Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol 

Coming Home - Pixie Lott ft. Jason Derulo 

(I got her cd for Christmas, and have had this on replay!) 

Invincible - Tinie Tempah ft Kelly Rowland  

So there it is! I put Fight For This Love in because I kept hearing it last week, it was really weird. haha. 

I think it's a kind of (modern) eclectic list this week, but I just put down the main ones that I've been listening to a lot this week. 

Hope you're all well

Love Victoria xo 

all together now.

♥

So! I went to see the JLS tour "Outta this world" last night, ahh! I really wasn't to excited before we went, which I know sounds a little spoilt but I just wasnt. The excitement kicked in when we got close to the arena though. We were a little late into the actual place where the stage is (I didn't know whether to call this the arena too? ha) because the line for the toilet was crazy, but when you gotta go, you gotta go. ;) 

We were kind of in the middle but a little to the left. We were above an exit so we had no one in front of us which was really lucky. It probably wouldn't have mattered too much though because no one stood up (?!?!). What is that about. Me and one of my friends I went with were the only people on our row to stand up. I haven't been to many concerts, literally just JLS this time and their last tour (yeah, i'm a big fan), but I was under the impression you stand at concerts? Am I wrong here, please someone with concert experience fill me in? I was getting into it, I had the arms up and everthing. Haa. I think the reason I'm making a big fuss about it is because at their last tour, almost everyone was one their feet. The odd adult who had come simply to look after their child remained seated but that makes sense.  Oh well, each to their own I suppose. Anyway, the photo underneath is from their last tour because, even though we seemed to be a little closer this time, my photos were really far away (if that makes sense). 

* Oh, and I'm sorry to go all 'obsessed-school girl' on you, but Aston = yum. *

I chose to wear my kind of back up outfit, if you will. The outfit that, recently, I have gone to or  at least to  the main staples of it. I probably would have made more effort if I had of been as excited as I was later on in the evening when I was getting ready. Oh well, I liked the outfit so all's good. I put together a polyvore set to give you the gist of my outfit. Basically, simple white vest top underneath a red chequered shirt with black straight leg jeans and my uggs ( i want some boots so badly!). The bag I took is similar to the one in the image except mine is white/creamy and was like £6 from Primark. I forgot to put it on here, but I also wore my thick chunky navy blue scarf. It makes me warm just thinking about it. 

Now for a slight tilt to the fashion side of this blog. The spring/summer lines have graced the catwalks already and everyone is looking forward to the sun and summer blah blah blah. But I want the winter to last longer. It seems to go so fast compared to the summer months. I want longer in my scarf. So, instead of choosing to show you some of my favourite summer/spring11 pieces, I thought I'd choose autumn/winter11. I know fashion always has to be ahead but I was a little shocked to see they already have autumn winter lines out. (making myself look like a right newbie with that line)

I chose Jenny Packham's collection because, quite frankly, I love her work. I remember discovering her website by chance in my first year of secondary school. I have a feeling I was looking at wedding dresses got ahead of myself a bit there. Anyway, I remember falling in love with her dresses so I picked a few from her A/W11 line to show you. 

Do you like Jenny Packham's lines? 

Love V xo 

did it snow?

I know everyone is talking about it but WE HAD SO MUCH SNOW! 

The picture doesn't really justify it. But it was so close to covering my wellies. You can see my atrociously disgusting (but oh so comfy) pyjamas in this photo.. cropped with blue stars on them.. yup. I also had knee highs on. I looked like a treat. 

I got quite a few snow snaps which is good as I'm choosing photography for my Duke of Edinburgh skill. 

Maybe I'll put them up sometime. 

I'm going to see JLS tonight. Hopefully we'll get there okay with the snow. Apparently the main roads are okay. We're leaving in plenty of time to get there so fingers crossed. 

Hopefully, I'm getting a camera for christmas (but just after, cause its out of stock) so I will be able to have more photos because I wont have to steal my mums camera all the time. Eeeeeep! 

I'm going to see family at Christmas, where they only have 1 inch of snow. I'm gonna be a little bit gutted to leave our 12 inches (measured a couple days ago but yano). Oh well, christmas is better with family and no snow than snow and no family (and possibly no turkey if we suddenly can't get up there..) 

Hopefully I'll be able to get another post in before christmas, maybe something fashion related for a change, who knows!

Ha. 

Hope you have a lovely day today. Whether your playing in the snow, wrapping, listening/singing christmas song or watching festive film, enjoy it. 

As always,

Love Victoria xo 

Listening To This Week: (kind of.)

Hello All :) 

I realise I haven't done on of these in a while, I didn't have time to do one at all last week. bad times. So I'm going to do a quick one now. I should really be writing my second essay, but that's boring. So boring.

1. Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas

I love the reason for my choosing of this song. I got out the shower one day last week, opened the window to let the steam out and suddenly Mariah Carey came streaming into my bathroom singing this gem of a Christmas song. It was so random, but so lovely. Got me feeling all festive.

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That's the only song i'm going to include this week because quite frankly it can hold it's own. 

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Alas, I must leave you as my second essay calls.. 

I hope you're all having a lovely week.  Keep reminding yourselves that the holidays are just around the corner! 

Love Victoria xo 

title.

Hello, just a bit of a catch up post as I mentioned in this post. :)

**I meant to post this last night, but it took me a while

and then I got a bit too tired, so tonight it is! **

(No joke, this is very similar to the scene in my room for the last week)

001. Eight hours and fifty minutes. That is the amount of time I have spent in exams this week. I've only had seven exams which isn't actually too bad compared to some people but still. It has drained so much energy out of me. I know that sounds melodramatic, but it really has. I'm so tired. However, something good to come out of this exam riddled week is that I now know why revision is supposed to be done over a period of time, not one night. It just doesn't fit. I've had two maths exams, two hours each. Two french, one for an hour and one lasting fifty mins. A philosophy and ethics for an hour. Sociology for an hour and then ICT for an hour and a half. Maths didn't go so well in my opinion, but I never thought it was going to. I think sociology and philosophy and ethics definitely went well and my french along with ICT went okay. At the end of the day, these ones are only mocks. If we don't do as well as we expect/want then it isn't the end of the world. There's no point getting too worked up over these because it wont help us, it will probably end up being a hindrance. I am nervous for the results though, for two reasons. Firstly, because we get some real-counting exam results back at the same time and last time I got results I wasn't very well. I think it was a mix of nerves and actually being ill, but it wasn't nice. So i guess I'm nervous about getting nervous.. and the results of course. But they're over now, nothing more I can do and I'm happy with the effort I put in so there's no point dwelling now.

002. It doesn't feel like Christmas yet. I suppose that's because in my household it isn't. We have a rule you see. 'It's not Christmas until after my dads birthday', which is Sunday, so I guess it's close. I have a busy weekend. I mean super busy. Saturday, family is round and I also need to manage to sneak out to buy my dad a card (unprepared) and tidy my disgracefully messy room. Sunday, I have a netball party thing, it's okay I checked with my dad if I could go, knowing it was on his birthday. But it was all good because we're doing something when my brother gets home from uni in a weeks time. Then it really will be Christmas because we are waiting to decorate the tree (yet to be bought) until he's home. I love decorating the tree, one of my favourite parts of Christmas. I've digressed, I didn't even notice, basically netball party thing and have to write two essays. eugh to the essays.

003. I know everyone and their mothers are talking about it, but I want my say too. Yep, I'm on about X Factor final. *eeep*. I think it will be close between Matt Cardle and Rebecca Ferguson. I love all the finalists but I felt so sorry for Mary Byrne, I really liked some of the performances she gave. I was hitting the replay button way too much on her performances of This is a man's world and You don't have to say you love me. They say it isn't an age thing but to be honest I think it is a little bit, I'm not saying I agree with it, but it is. I hope Mary gets a record deal, she deserves it in my opinion.

I honestly think all the finalists will get deals. Cher Lloyd because she's different to anything we've got around at the moment (Her version of the Shakespeare's Sisters 'Stay' was amazing!), One Direction because of the attention/frenzy they get and they can sing as well. I think sometimes people just like them because they are good looking, when it also needs to be recognised that they're actually good singers too. Matt and Rebecca, they are both good enough for a deal. Good luck to all of them, they've all worked hard and so whoever wins it, will be deserving I think.

I think Rebecca & Christina Aguilara will sing I am beautiful, Matt and Rihanna will sing Take a bow and I don't know about the others. But there the ones i'm hoping to hear! Roll on seven o'Clock.

Who do you think/want to win? 

Well done and thank you if you managed to reach the end. I do appreciate anyone and everyone who takes the time to read what I write, It does mean a lot.

Hope you all have fantastic weekends! :)

Love Victoria xo

photos: vi.sualize.us

Listening To This Week:Memories, Style & Good Causes

Basically, I'm off school today because I can hardly talk at all, it hurts when I try and I just feel blah. So what better than a little blog-therapy, right. So I've featured quite a few songs this week and I've tried not to just pick songs that are in the charts right now because you guys can just use good ol' google to find that out. This desire to create a time warp style theme has caused me to take a tiny little wonder down memory lane..

X Factor Finalists - Help For Heroes

Buy it, watch it, listen to it. Whatever you do it will be either raising money or awareness, which is an amazing thing.

The Script - Nothing

I can't find a video of the actual music vid that doesn't tell me it's 'not available' or something. The script are amazing. Seriously, I love every one of their songs. If you can, you should try and take a look at their video and look at what their lead singer, Danny O'Donoghue, is wearing throughout. I love the scarf he wears, it even looks good wet. His style seems to be quite consistent and that is not necessarily a bad thing, especially when you look like him. ;) Jokes aside for a second, his style is really good. He might be styled, I have no idea (I kinda hope he doesn't, when celebs look good without a stylist its all the more impressive), but never the less his style is different to many others in the industry.

Pixie Lott - Turn It Up

In the summer of '09 when me and a friend first heard this song, I swear we listened to it constantly. It was such a good summer, but so much has changed since then. Oh well, maybe for the best. Love Pixie Lott, love her music and love her style. I want to do a post on her style soonish.

S Club Juniors - Sundown

I don't even care how childish this makes me look, not even one bit. I used to lovvvve S Club juniors and this song was one of my favourite songs. I think know that I still have their CD. And yes, yes I do still know all the words. Also there has been a bit of media coverage on some of the above band members. Of course there is the usual hype that constantly surrounds Rochelle Wiseman and Frankie Sandford because each make a fifth of The Saturdays. However, they were both seen out with other members of the band recently. I think it was Calvin and Aaron (who incidentally used to be my favourite) but they have said there is nothing going on between any of them which is understanding considering both Rochelle and Frankie both only recently just got out of relationships.

Like Them?

Love V xo

i told you not to fall in love with me

A Walk To Remember

This film is beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.

It tackles some difficult issues, such as bullying, terminal illness and peer pressure. The film is very moving and goes way beyond the typical boy meets girl type.

It's difficult to put this film into words, everything I type doesn't seem to do it enough justice.

This is one of my many favourite scenes in the film.

I can't recommend it more, it's very moving and sad but it is such an amazing and lovely film. However it is not just another standard sad film. It is a very emotional film to watch and many I speak to shed a tear or two (my self included - both times).

I've watched this twice in two days, and will most probably watch it again tonight. It's already on my Christmas list.

Have you seen it?

Love V xo

Listening To This Week

Hello my lovelies,

A few little tunes for you to enjoy on your thursday night..

1. Ellie Goulding - Your Song

I'll admit it, I've chosen an obvious song this week. Everybody has been listening to it. A beautiful cover of an Elton John classic.

2. Rihanna ft Drake - What's my name

Again, this is quite a predictable choice for me but I really wanted you all to see it to look at her outfits throughout. They are absolutely gorgeous and of course edgy.

3. The White Tie Affair - Mr Right

I heard it on an episode of The Hills, and I googled the lyrics and wrote it down on a bit of paper so I remembered it. I know, too cool.

Thoughts?

Love V xo

Listening To This Week: Topical

It's time for me to do a 'listening to this week' post, the name is oh so original.

This weeks songs are going to be topical to recent events.

1. One Night Only - Say you don't want it

If this video has worked (if it hasn't please watch it on youtube. It's so good!) you will have noticed that it features Emma Watson. I remember one of the members of One Night Only saying that Emma has asked them if she could be in it because she loves them, which I love.

This song is topical for two reasons. Firstly, Harry Potter premiers happened last week (LDN) and last night (NY) and there has been a lot of focus on Emma Watsons style and what she will do next. This leads me beautifully in to the second reason as to why this song is topical. Today I read that Emma is teaming up with designer Alberta Ferretti to release a collection. The collection will is said to be an organic and fair trade line.

2. The Beatles - Hey Jude

This song in particular isn't topical but the band are. Today I tunes have started to sell The Beatles songs. Good day for The Beatles fans, ey.

3. A Rocket to the Moon - Like we used to

Save the best 'til last? Definitely.

This isn't topical what so ever, other than for the fact that I love it. Seriously, Its so sweet and beautiful. Read the lyrics, they're cute.

Opinions on these songs/topics?

Any songs you've been listening to a lot recently?

Love V xo