Hey guys, welcome to Music Fridays! I'll be putting up playlists every Friday with a theme/mood to it and it's up to you guys to interpret it as such. I'm reachable here in the comments or on Twitter at @hannahcyanide. The title of this week's playlist is Don't Drink The Kool-Aid, in reference to Natalia Kills' song Controversy. This week has been a real weird one to me, with so much drama and lies, secrets and murder everywhere.
Okay, not the murder. That would be kinda fun though. I'd like that. Maybe pull an Ed Gein, turn someone's face into a lampshade, wear their skin as a shirt...
I'm going off-topic. On to the playlist!
1. Skye Sweetnam - Number One [here]
One day you'll see me but only when your dreaming
One day you'll say I was the one
Now, this is probably one of the biggest 'fuck you' songs out there - and it's an old one, but a good thing. I've always loved Skye Sweetnam and she's grown up from her punk-rock princess roots to something really amazing. (Check out her single 'Only Human' for some awesomeness)
2. Marina and the Diamonds - How To Be A Heartbreaker [here]
Girls, we do, whatever it will take
Cause girls don't want, we don't want our hearts to break
Daddy always told me I'd grow up to break hearts and get away with murder. I'm just doing what Daddy wanted me to ;) Oh, but seriously though - this song always perks me up when I'm getting ready in the morning.
3. Ke$ha - Die Young [here]
I hear your heart beat to the beat of the drums
Oh, what a shame that you came here with someone
Relevant because... well. Because it is! Also, every girl needs a dance song when it comes to going out and looking for trouble. I might as well be trouble because trouble finds me.
4. Rita Ora - R.I.P. ft. Tinie Tempah [here]
No option for, you saying no
I run this game, just play a role
Follow my lead, what you waiting for?
Thought it over and decided tonight is your night
I don't play games, really. I think I'd have to be a little smarter than that to really be schooled in being sheisty (reference to that word, this article by Nancy Jo Sales: here). Besides, who did I ever play? Not you, right?
I'm harmless.
5. Fall Out Boy - Rat A Tat ft. Courtney Love [here]
But I'll take your heart served up two ways
I sing a bitter song
I'm the lonelier version of you
I just don't know where it went wrong
Other than the fact that Courtney Love features on this song, and frankly I love her - her final verse in this song is an eargasm, the lyrics seem just perfect to shout from a rooftop or during a summer drive-by. In fact, most - if not the whole album are absolutely perfect for long car trips where you sing along as the sun goes down. Another perfect line from this song:
He says "I've seen bigger"
She says "I've lit better"
And they throw the matches down into the glitter
6. The Pretty Reckless - Miss Nothing [here]
I'm misused, misconstrued
I don't need to be saved
Miss slighted, I mind it
I'm stuck in the rain
Fun fact: I get hit so much that I barely feel it anymore.
Remember that scene from The Dark Knight where Joker tells Batman to a) hit him and b) laughs when he does get hit? I do that. Another good song that's relevant is The Pretty Reckless - Hit Me Like A Man. I've also taken to messing around with Rifdi's TripWhip (that's a whip made out of fiber optic cables that light up and strobe and turn different colors to you) and I find that I can work with it. The pain that some people get when the exposed ends of the cables scrape against your skin? I don't really feel it.
7. Panic At The Disco - Sarah Smiles [here]
You fooled me once with your eyes now, honey
You fooled me twice with your lies, and I say
As much as someone can hurt you, maybe you become addicted to that pain. You take the pain as a sign of love. It's like Stockholm Syndrome and heck, it went both ways for a while.
No one would believe me in that respect, though.
8. Devendra Banhart - Won't You Come Over [here]
I used to live alone, but I found you, so certain
I’m yours to take
Now I can’t wait for all the mistakes
We’ve yet to make
This song is pretty quirky-cute and just a little bit twee (correct me if I've gotten my genres wrong) but it doesn't fail to put me in a good mood. I tend to hum this with a huge smile on my face, just because. Follow up with Won't You Come Home for something a little quieter.
9. Ellie Goulding - Only You [here]
Only you can see the emptiness I feel
When you're with me
When everything you say I'm on my knees
I wasn't kidding when I said I was crazy.
I'm serious.
Why are you so serious?
But anyway, sociopathic tendencies and expendability and so on, ad nauseum - when someone looks into the abyss, have you ever wondered if the abyss is looking right back at them? Don't play in the deeper waters, kiddies. God knows what's in there.
Also, hey there Cthulu, can I chill with you? My pack hasn't arrived yet and I'm waiting on drinks.
10. Natalia Kills - Wonderland [here]
I wanna show you how
good we could be together..
I wanna love you through the night,
we'll be a sweet disaster!
Much like how Lady GaGa's Bad Romance is a song about being in love with your best friend and fucking things up completely (I'm serious.), this song completely rejects the conventions of the fairy-tale romance. Much how I'd like to buck the whole "please rescue me from the wolves, oh help me!" thing.
If I'm stupid enough to go running headfirst into trouble, have you ever thought that maybe I want to be there in the first place? Also, I seem to do this a lot and never learned a thing anyway. I learn OTHER things from people. Like violent tendencies, and how to plot against people I don't like (thanks Rico) and how to have an ego the size of an outer ring planet (thanks Seth) and be completely stubborn and uncompromising about it.
Anyway, protip for this playlist. Load the video, read the italicized lyrics and play the video. If it's a music video, watch and then read the liner notes. If it's a lyric video, read the liner notes while listening to the song. Rinse and repeat. I'd love your input!
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