Happily Melancholic Favorite #5: Another For The Darkness by Gemma Hayes

Talk, Talk
Empty Sentiment
I Haven't Got The Heart
For Disappointment

I really like this song, Another For The Darkness by Gemma Hayes.

The title at first may seem a little....Dark but the song itself is not.

It's kind of the feeling of upbeat melody with sad lyrics.

For me the song hits me on a personal level.

I think the reason why I like this song so much is because of the lyrics.

The lyrics are filled with hints of disappointment and confusion and also a hint of trying to help.

All that roll it into one and that's a great way to sum up my feelings these past couple of days.
Anyways, here's Another For The Darkness by Gemma Hayes.

Lyrical Snippets Hitting Home

Stop Looking At Me That Way

This line is related to a person who always talk about me behind my back and looks at me and makes me feel like crap for doing one little thing. It hurts.

Tired of The Fight

This hits me personally because I feel as if I always have to end up in an argument with another person just to prove to them that I didn't do whatever they thought I did. I just feel too weak to argue anymore.

Well, I Don't Understand You Better Than Most
I Am Just You Friend, With Troubles Of My Own

This is realated to one of my friends whom i keep sacrificing everything to but people still think that I abuse him or torture him because well, he tells people that. So, now I feel as if he expects me to understand him better than others because we're friends.
Truth is, I don't.
I won't be able to and I can't just stop everything and feel the same way you're feeling every time.

These Days I'm Surrounded By People I Don't Even Like

That is true I am but it's not everyone, just most of the people I don't like.

I don't think I'll be talking very much after today or tomorrow or the next week, cause what's the point of talking to people with my problems, troubles, and worries if I have to deal with it myself.
I'm going to have to get used to that.
I just hope that at least one day this year I'll have a good day with friends/family, fun, and laughter. I just really need a good day.
I want to smile more, I don't want to keep getting Anger shakes, feelings of loneliness and experience actions of disappointment anymore.
I just don't.

My Favorite Song: It's Time by Maria Taylor -Personally Explained-

It's Time*

Love Me Bad Idea Oh No Flashback.
Personally for me it's more, "Don't love me, cause I'll just push you away".
Whisper I Barely Hear Okay Now Come Back.
For me it's "Inner voice I barely hear, please come back.
Hold (Let Me Down) Myself Up (Let Me Down)
For Each Let Down.
For this line it's a long story, basically to sum it up, I hold my head up high while people let me down all the time.
It Aches (Let Me Down) But It Feels Good (Let Me Down)
A Mistake (Let Me Down) Is Understood Now
At times in my life, when I am very sad I feel pain that aches and to me it feels good because I'm never able to feel sadness all the time. Most times in my life it is held in. Also, most times in my life I understand the mistakes I make or do.
It's Time, Can You Feel It? I'm Making A Change
There's A World I Need To Know
I feel the changes I'm making in my life and the changes of life itself, while I also want to see the world and do something better for the world too.
It's Time, Can You Feel It? I'm Making A Change
I Learned To Let It Go
I'm learning to let things go more, to free myself of the bad and focus more on the good.
I Don't Know You, But I Want To Now Oh No Flashback
This line is more about me my inner self and how I don't know much about me, myself because I've put myself aside to please people all the time. To see they're smiling faces, to put on that Seven Day Smile.
Careful, I'm Barely Here Okay, Now Come Back
Basically saying that my true self is barely shown and at most times it will go away whenever I'm around people afraid of what they might think if I show them my true self.

Hold (Let Me Down) Myself Up (Let Me Down)
For Each Let Down.

It Breaks (Let Me Down) But It Feels Good (Let Me Down) Separate (Let Me Down) I Knew It Would Now
This basically describes my friendship with people that took advantage of me cause I'd help them all the time. Our friendship would break and we'll eventually separate cause they weren't friends with me just my "helpful" side.

It's Time, Can You Feel It? I'm Making A Change
There's A World I Need To Know
It's Time, Can You Feel It? I'm Making A Change
I Learned To Let You Go

This last part is expressing my feelings of letting the people I "love" go, because why keep being with them when all they do is let me down and they just expect me to repay them with kindness or respect when I don't really get a break and when I do I don't even ask for it. I have to do a lot of things by myself so if I have to go alone I'll be fine with that.

7th Happily Melancholic Song: It's Time by Maria Taylor

After 18 years of listening to music, I have finally found my favorite song. It's Time by Maria Taylor. Every line I hear from the song hits me at the right spot, the melodies speak to me and makes my soul fly and my smile grow wide, the hushed vocals tugs at my heart and motivates me to feel the emotion I have inside me. Every little thing about this song is perfect. I just love it.
I remember that I was listening to this song when I thought up of Happily Melancholic. The song has everything that's personal to me. It's Melancholic with an upbeat melody also it's about personal strength. I really love this song. If I didn't have this song in my collection I probably would still be the passive guy that I used to be.
Here's It's Time by Maria Taylor

Melancholy In Love Pt. V: Flood by Hurts to Purr

Come on, bring me a flood
Come on, bring me a code red warning
My baby and me need a tragedy

I like Hurts to Purr, but my favorite song from them is Flood. I love this song so much. It takes you and moves you, like the Sea. I think this song is what Melancholy In Love is all about.
Liz Pappademas's voice along with the melody arrangement of Tom Benton & Jeremy Bruch just makes Flood perfect. The lyrics are really saddening and each time when I listen to the song I think of rain on a normal dark spring day. Lying back on your bed thinking of so much that's making you feel down. This song hits me personally. Whenever I listen to it I'm taking away. It's just that good. I think if you love piano you'll love this song.
I don't really know what else to say for this song. It's too great to describe. If you've never really listened to music like this before it might not move you at first but give it time. You'll be swayed.

I can't believe I'd wish for so much suffering
But it's better than this nothing
Bring me anything, oh, to get my baby and me together again

Here's Flood by Hurts to Purr

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Melancholy In Love Pt. IV: Algo Esta Cambiando [Something's Changing] by Julieta Venegas

Man, I don't know why I love the sounds of Julieta Venegas but she is winning my heart song by song. One of her songs, "Algo Esta Cambiando", is a great song about a relationship that is at first glance the same but if you look closely something's changing.
I love this song and I love this artist. I found out about Julieta Venegas from Nelly Furtado when she was on Furtado's song, "Baja Otro Luz [Under Another Light]". Hearing Furtado, Venegas, and La Mala Rodriguez singing, "El Color De Mi Vida Cambio Desde Que Tu Llegaste [The Color Of My Life Changed When You Arrived]" Back and forth like they were in a conversation was magical. It made the song a great one. If they collaborate again I'm buying the song, no questions asked. Anyways, moving on.....
Julieta Venegas treats her songs like children. You can just hear how much work has been put together for each song and Algo Esta Cambiando must have taken her weeks to put together. To make the song just right. The song itself is great to listen to.
I feel like I'm "in love" and then losing love when I listen to the song. Fading out of a relationship that was not working with me emotionally. I love that. I love how a song can take me and swoop me into a lovely story. It's great to hear songs like that.
All in All, I think this song is a great one, very close to a perfect song. For all music lovers out there if you love Perfect Pop you'll love Julieta Venegas. Especially the song, Algo Esta Cambiando. It's got a 97% out of 100% in the "Perfect Pop" Meter.
With vocalizing, hooks, and a chorus that'll echo in your head anytime anywhere, if America was very open to foreign music this song would top charts. But sadly that's not the case. Oh well, At least it top Latin Charts. Go on with your Spanish self Bonita!
While I listened to Julieta since January 2010, I've been having a lot of thought about what kind of music I like. I love so much music but I'm also picky at the same time. In middle school I thought I liked Indie Music but I don't. Cause the Decemberists piss me off and Vampire Weekend are annoying sometimes to me. And so on and so on.
I think that I like Pop.
Perfect Pop, not Popular Pop that sucks.
Good Pop that takes you and makes you want more.
Pop that's catchy.
Pop that tells a story.
Pop that takes you away.
Pop that makes people feel.
Pop that just makes you feel human.
I've explored through English, French, and Asian Pop since I was 8. I didn't know much about Latin Pop until 2009.
You know, I think that I wouldn't have explored Latin Pop Music if it wasn't for Nelly Furtado's 2009 album, Mi Plan. Also, I wouldn't have found out about Julieta Venegas without Furtado's help. Thank you, Nelly Furtado!
Here's Algo Esta Canbiando by Julieta Venegas
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Also, enjoy this beautifully done music video for the song.
Hope you like the song and the video.

Julieta Venegas - Algo Esta Cambiando from Coral Rucker on Vimeo.

Happily Nostalgic 2: Strawberry Swing by Coldplay

You know, when Coldplay released their recent album, Viva La Vida or Death & All His Friends, I didn't really want to have anything to do with it at first. Mostly because Violet Hill was ok and Viva La Vida never really moved me so I never really got into it like how the rest of the world did.
Then one day, I saw an advertisement for a new Bat For Lashes song. So, I checked it out and then I saw a list of music videos so I looked through and saw the Strawberry Swing music video. I watched it and was so amazed by the graphics and the design that I almost completely tuned out the song. After that I didn't really listen to the song again for about 7 months. I started listening to the song again because I was making mix CDs for some friends and stumbled upon it in my music collection. Just to say, I have so music that I don't really have time to remember every song I have. It's like having a Pandora on my Zune whenever I put all the songs on shuffle. So, I listened to Strawberry Swing again (audio only) and it moved me. The song was so nostalgic with the melody, sounds, and lyrics that it took me back to being a kid again. I really liked it.
After a couple of days of "re-discovering" Strawberry Swing, I watched the movie, My Sister's Keeper. During the last scene I was listening to Strawberry Swing in one ear while intensely watching the movie and the little girl Anna (Abigail Breslin) was going on about how no one did anything special for Kate (Sofia Vassilieva). She just died.
At first I was really sad by that. You lose someone you love and nothing really special happens for them.
People who are still living get monuments made after them all the time and don't deserve it and the good people that die are forgotten by everyone. Except for the loved ones, for the good people will always (unintentionally) leave an empty space in their families hearts.
Basically what I'm saying is that watching the last scene while listening to Strawberry really tugged my heart. My heart was tugged so hard that it was a sudden pull. A pull waiting to happen ever since my grandma died.
That pull must have been waiting for 15 years! This movie will tug at your heart too if you've lost someone that was really close to you. No matter how little you were when they passed away. I was 3 years old when my granny died and it still affects me to this day. She was a very good person. Granny is a saint if you compare her to Della Reese. That's how great of a person she was.

Anyways.....On with the music....

Strawberry Swing is such an ending song, an ending of a life song. The feeling you have when you listen to it, that feeling of nostaligia and memories of life before you passed. It's really moving and personal for many listeners of Coldplay.
I could go on and on about this song right now but I shouldn't, cause then I'll ramble on.

Here's Strawberry Swing by Coldplay.
Also, here's the music video.

Coldplay - Strawberry Swing from Hatem Zekri on Vimeo.

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Melancholy In Love Pt. III: I Know by Algebra Blessett

I'm sorry, it's been a month. I've been gone for a whole month cause it was Black History Month. I love celebrating it. I was rediscovering R&B, Hip-Hop, and Rap music through February and I was watching a lot of Black TV Shows. God, they're addicting. I love being black. Anyways....
I love the vocal sounds of Algebra. To me, Ms. Blessett does a great job with her Pure R&B sounds and Pure R&B vocals. Lyrics that are true and filled with emotions. My favorite song of her's is, "I Know". The melodies and the beats of I Know are amazing. This song is on the Girlfriends Soundtrack. This song reminds me of the show Girlfriends but it also reminds me of myself. Growing, Learning and Knowing.
Here's I Know by Algebra Blessett

Hope you enjoy the song!





I didn't make this video but I really like it. I had to share it with you guys.