#body head bangerz

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Roy Jones Jr. ft. Body Head Bangerz - I Smoke, I Drank (Dirty)

[tha-wrecka-stow]

[shayshaybiscuit25]

I no longer support white celebs or people//

How do people not realize this is basically birthing hatred in your own heart. It makes one no better than the people they claim to hate. All white people aren’t the problem, majority, to the point racism is still ramped, yes, but to blindly go around claiming to not like or support every single white person based on the actions of others makes you seem childish asf anon. I get mad at racist, not all white people.

I suggest you go to you local library and take a deep dive in history, if it weren’t for certain white advocates even in small numbers, a lot of risked their lives along with our black leaders, a lot of things would not have occurred nor improved.

Go learn about the White Panther party.

I get so tired of people looking at things on the internet and basing conclusions without realizing you obviously know very little about our history let alone the world to make a baseless statement like that,even reading this you’re probably thinking I’m “standing up for the white man” 🙄

Some of you need to learn what’s happened. I know things are bad now, but sweetheart they’ve been worse they’ve also at one point were amazing. Many of you weren’t born to know there were three beautiful decades where black folks THRIVED!! We everywhere, music, tv, etc. We were and forever will be IT! ✨ unfortunately racist and some black people who chose money over the betterment of our people (Hi BET 🖕🏾), shut that down and now we have the entertainment industry as you all know it now. This is why many of us that you all think are “haters” say music, tv and movies aren’t the same. We had multiple talented black women across genres, not just one or two. We had every skin tone represented. Many of you truly don’t understand how y’all fall for some of the most mediocre stuff nowadays yet call it “talent”.

The standard has dropped significantly to the point everyone and their mama are getting famous now.

I may sound like a prude, but the over sexualization of black women ain’t it. They are trying to have our young girls and immature grown women thinking certain types of behavior and attire is appropriate when it’s not. No one is saying cover up head to toe, but many do not understand there’s a time and place for things. Most of our celebs are focused on money and not the influence they are putting out there. It’s all going to blow up eventually. We went from artist standing up and using their talents and platforms to better our community, go listen to L-Boogie “That Thing”, and listen to the lyrics. Nina Simone, BillieHoliday, etc to now where people can say a basic quote that sounds nice and people automatically label them an advocate. Don’t even get me started on various white artists using black artist to boost their careers or eras. (Miley Cyrus now claims to be embarrassed by her Bangerz era, yet claimed back then that was her authentic self, stop letting people use us)

I understand the times change, but said change isn’t always good. We’re still being used in ways many can’t comprehend.

Idol worship is seen as “normal”. People really be out here worshipping other humans who mock God, yet claim to be “Christian”, I don’t care if someone claims to “love” God with their mouth, actions speak louder than words. Too many baby Christians out here getting easily influenced because they lack knowledge of HIS word. I’m serious, people better stop playing with God and making excuses for their actions. God don’t play that. He shows us love, grace and mercy, yes, but putting demonic affiliation in music videos, calling God the n-word, Calling God out his name in general, mocking him, etc.

Showing every single inch of their bodies and trying to claim it’s for expression or women rights, nah you can love you and be sexy without doing all that. There’s a reason the black women of the 70s, 80s and 90s were top tier, sometimes less is indeed more.

Just because someone is rich and famous doesn’t mean they are “blessed” by God. People don’t think Satan will be crafty enough to have you believing you’re doing great, not realizing lukewarm Christianity is not good. God will spit them out of his mouth.

Don’t allow these entertainers have any of you out here drifting away from God all because you love your fav. These music artist today display the darkness right in front of us all, but get praised. Go watch the videos of early 2010s to now and tell me they haven’t gotten darker and more revealing in various ways.

Y’all stay blessed and just keep your eyes and hearts open. Developing the gift of discernment is a true blessing. People think because we’re saved we can do anything, but God knows all. We speak in love and truth. His word is Truth.

Oh wowwwwww

Anon to Anon.

[fyeah-bangtan7]

RM: “I spend a lot of time thinking about where I am now”

The story of BTS’ new album BE started on April 17, 2020 when group member RM announced its production on the BANGTANTV YouTube channel. In the seven months that followed until the album’s release, RM’s mind was full, his thoughts flowing in and out of his head.

How do you feel about the unique approach you took to making your new album, BE? RM: The other members were a ton of help to me. My lyrics made it on the album, but the music I composed didn’t, so I’m really thankful to the group for the music. How should I say this? I feel like everyone is doing a great job. There are so many parts in these songs that I’m indebted to them for. “Stay” was originally going to be the title song on Jung Kook’s mixtape, but everyone liked it so much, and they all agreed to put that on our album. That’s how much influence they had. I’m really happy my room idea was chosen to be the album photos. Since we’re spending a lot of time in our rooms because of COVID-19, we laid out the idea of each of us decorating a room in our own style. I can’t remember for sure (laughs) but I think I’m the one who came up with that. I made a comfortable room, one that’s modern and warm because that’s what I like.

There’s a painting in the middle, and symmetrically arranged figurines. RM: The figures are from my own collection. I wanted to show one of my paintings, but that didn’t pan out. But still, those are the things I hold most dear to me right now, so I let the room embody the things I wish I had, too.

It’s well known that you like art and frequent exhibitions, but how do you feel when you look at art in your home or another space where there are no people, like in the album art? RM: Someone said, “You don’t have to buy this painting; it’s yours so long as you’re looking at it.” That’s my favorite sound bite these days. What I most envied about painters was that, even after they died, their work would be hanging up somewhere, maybe even in another country, still defining that space. Musicians leave behind their songs and videos, too, but it’s only through fine art that viewers in the future are able to completely meet artists from the past. I’m envious that this is only possible for painters. These days I’m trying to find spaces where I can have more relaxed viewing experiences.

There’s a full experience involved, from the time you get ready to leave your house until the time you’re actually looking at artwork in the gallery. RM: That’s perfect to me. There’s art you can keep at home, and then there’s art that should always be viewed in museums.

What effect do you think that type of experience has on your music? You didn’t compose any of the songs but instead participated in writing the lyrics to all of the tracks. Did that experience affect your lyric writing in any way? RM: I think it’s helped me develop a way of thinking using all the senses. I used to be attuned to speech and focus on language and auditory textures, but now I can look at my thoughts from many different angles. That’s why I spend more time studying art now. I’m waiting for the day that it all comes to the surface, like when you paint the base on a canvas over and over so the colors pop. It’s hard to answer in one word if it has a direct influence on my work, but I think people who create music develop a way of seeing the world through their personal experience and their creative process. Painters naturally exhibit their art over a very long period of time. I think it gave me an eye for looking at the world in one long, continuous stroke. So now it’s become a little challenging for me to write lyrics these days. I’ve become more cautious.

Why is it so challenging? RM: I used to have so many ideas pouring out that it was hard to pluck one out. So I would stack them up like a Jenga tower and ponder over which one to remove. But now, it’s hard to even add a block to the stack. I’m not sure why but, when I look at these artists whose works span their entire lives, I sense that the rhythm of my creativity is slowing down more and more. That’s the source of my dilemma. I’m only 27 years old. I still need to wander around and get tripped up a little. But am I just trying to imitate what the fine artists are doing? Or maybe BTS experienced so much in the past seven years, that now it’s time for us to take a breather? I’ve got so many questions, I feel like my hair’s turning white. That’s why none of my songs are on the album. I wrote some, but they were too personal to use there. I don’t exactly like myself like this, but I have to see through to the end in this direction and find the answer.

Maybe for that reason, your rapping has shifted focus to the lyrics more so than trend or musicality. It emphasizes the feeling of the words over a particular format or beat. RM: Exactly. In—was it 2017? Pdogg was talking to Yoongi, Hobi and me about our style, and said, “Namjoon, it feels like you’re becoming a lyricist,” and it really stuck with me. I have a lot of thoughts lately when I watch Show Me the Money or listen to hip hop songs from the Billboard chart. My music started out all about my life as a rapper, so I spend a lot of time thinking about where I am now.

So you’ve started to ask yourself who you are as a musician? RM: I listened to Lee So-ra’s seventh album again today. I keep changing my mind but, if I had to pick between her sixth and seventh album, I like her seventh a little more. And then I listen to the most popular songs on Billboard, and I feel kind of thrown off. Um … There’s something Whanki Kim said that’s been running around in my head lately: After moving to New York, he embraced the style of artists like Mark Rothko and Adolf Gottlieb, but then he said, “I’m Korean, and I can’t do anything not Korean. I can’t do anything apart from this, because I am an outsider.” And I keep thinking that way, too. That’s my main concern lately.

You can feel that on BE. As the members take on more prominent roles as songwriters and producers, characteristics of old Korean music—the kind of music you likely listened to in middle and high school—gradually entered your sound. But your music isn’t from that era, and it sounds like pop, but not quite. RM: The sound has to fit with the whole album so I couldn’t incorporate that feel into BTS songs, but the songs I’m listening to most lately have been Korean. Songs like P-Type’s “Don Quixote,” Dead’P’s “Spread My Wings,” Soul Company’s album The Bangerz. The impressions the songs from back then have left on me, the lyrics from back then and the lyrics from now, they’re different. So BE is both Korean and pop; it’s very unique, in my view.

I think that’s especially true for “Life Goes On.” It’s got a pop melody, but compared to “Dynamite,” it has a very different feel. It doesn’t slip deep into the sentimental, instead allowing the melody to flow naturally. RM: Exactly. The chorus is totally pop, and one of the writers was also American. But the song doesn’t really follow American music trends, weirdly. So I don’t know how “Life Goes On” is going to be received. It’s really calm, almost contemplative. So there’s lyrics, like, “Like an echo in the forest,” and, “Like an arrow in the blue sky.” The song kind of feels like that: It could just float off and disappear. It might even come off as bland next to “Dynamite.”

If nothing else, it seems the song will stick around for a long time. Maybe kids now will listen to it later on in the future. RM: I hope so. That’s the one thing I really hope for, people in the future, thinking back and saying, “Oh, right! Remember that one song?” That’s what my favorite artists and other people who leave a lasting impression on me have in common. One thing common among the songs that have affected me a lot, like Lee So-ra’s seventh album, is that the lyrics they utter in their voice along with the overall sound stick with me. I hope when people look back, my words uttered with the sound of my voice, echoes for a long time in an auditory or visual way, or even throughout their entire lives. But that’s the dilemma: We have all these bling-bling symbols of our success, but we’re not that kind of team.

And yet, BTS’s career path is even more “bling-bling” than ever. “Dynamite” was the top song on the Billboard Hot 100. RM: I was the first one to check our position (laughs) but I didn’t want to get too excited about it. I was scared of facing disappointment so I put the brakes on out of habit, and restrained myself. But on the other hand, I feel like I should relish this moment. This is a once-in-a-lifetime thing; shouldn’t I enjoy myself a bit? But I disliked that sensation of only feeling elated so I tried to be as objective as possible. I was just one small part of everything that made this happen.

It reminds me of that part, “Running faster than that cloud of rain / Thought that would be enough / Guess I’m only human after all,” from “Life Goes On.” RM: “Only human” sounds so appropriate for me right now. One time, I saw a dark cloud over the N Seoul Tower while I was walking along the Han River. I was with a friend and we talked about where the border between where it’s raining and where it’s not might be, and suddenly, we came up with the idea to run and find that spot. But after running for 10 minutes, the cloud was even further away than it had been. At that moment, the puzzle pieces snapped into place. You think you can go faster than that dark cloud? No. That’s what I realized then. And I just like what Whanki Kim said, that maybe I can’t do anything not Korean, because that’s what I am. I used to work late and then stay up all night when things weren’t working out, sometimes walking from Samseong to Sinsa station, thinking everything through. But now, like the saying, I realize that maybe I can’t do more than what I am. 

On Weverse, you said that you gained some muscle from working out. Could the change to your body improve your creativity in the long term? RM: I started to think I better change myself a little, physically or mentally. I’m talking about being steady. I used to bombard myself with challenges and worries and just get over them, but now I think it’s time to find that one sturdy thing and plant myself there. The best choice was working out, and I think it’s changing my behavior a lot. I’m hoping that, if I keep working out for a year or two, I’ll become a different person.

Music is your job, but also your life. Like you expressed in “Dis-ease,” how would you say you feel about your work? RM: This is my job and my calling and I feel a great sense of responsibility. I think I’m lucky and happy that I can solely worry about my creative process. And I feel very responsible to those people who put their trust in me, so I try not to cross any lines, judge myself honestly, and always be professional. Those are the responsibilities that come with the job—the things I have to do and the promises I won’t betray. But if I’m going to do it, I’m going to be happy while I do it. That’s not always going to be possible, but that’s generally how I feel.

Well then, how do you feel about BTS at the moment? RM: BTS is … Well, it’s really hard to tell. (laughs) When BTS started out, I thought, “I know everything there is to know about BTS,” but now it’s, “I don’t know a single thing about BTS.” In the past, I felt like I knew everything, and that anything was possible. Call it childish or ambitious. But if I were to ask myself, “What is BTS to me?” I would say, we’re just people who met each other because we were meant to. But it feels like the stars aligned and a startup company became a unicorn, with perfect timing and lots of smart people. Looking back, there were a lot of ironies and contradictions in this industry. I thought I figured them out one by one, and then finally understood the whole thing. But now I feel like I don’t know anything at all. Anyway, to sum up: My young, reckless twenties. The events of my twenties. There were a lot of contradictions, people, fame, and conflict all tangled together, but it was my choice and I got a lot out of it, so my twenties were an intense but also happy time.

And what about you, as one individual person? RM: I’m a real Korean person. (laughs) A person who wants to do something in Korea. I think millennials are charging into society stuck between the analog and digital generations, and what I chose is BTS. So I try to integrate myself into our generation, try to understand what people like me are thinking, and try to work hard to capture that feeling without being a burden on them. This might be another kind of irony itself, but this is who I am. I’m a 27-year-old Korean. That’s what I think.

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[wendimydarling]

Title: Wrecking Ball

Summary: Song Drabble #15, requested by @cleverrhyno​

Pairing: Kal-El x First Person Reader (potentially Lana? idk)

Word Count: 705

Warnings: None

A/N: Finally got proper inspiration for this one, I hope I did it justice!

It’s been almost twenty years since he saved our lives on that school bus. I didn’t understand it then, why he was so reluctant to go out with me. He’d always been so kind to me, and I thought when he looked into my eyes with that conflicted stare that we’d seen into each others’ souls, and that we’d shared something that no one else would understand. I thought he was mine.

I tried everything my fourteen-year-old brain could think of, and it worked for awhile. We’d study together and I’d press myself as close to him as I could, hoping he’d smell the special body spray I’d spent hours at the mall selecting, wondering if he’d like it. I’d made his favorite cookies once, giving them to him at lunch and showing him the burn I’d received while making them. He looked so concerned and fussed over it, and it left me floating high for two weeks. When he asked me to junior prom I don’t think I came down from the clouds for a solid two months.

He was my first kiss. I remember it vividly, we were messing around with the tire swing on his parent’s property. He was always able to spin me so fast that I felt like I was flying and then he’d stop me suddenly, and he felt so solid I wanted to stay in his arms forever. He gave me another one of those deep stares and I stared back, asking him for everything without saying a word. His mouth was clumsy, but he was so soft and sweet, and the feel of that kiss still burns on my lips to this day. I touched myself for the very first time that night.

Two years went by like that, and we were happy, or so I thought. And then his dad died. I was there at the funeral, and I tried to hold him, but his eyes said something different this time. I knew I was losing him but I held tighter, refusing to let him go. We took each other’s virginity that night, and it was perfect. But it wasn’t enough. The moment we graduated high school he was gone, without a goodbye. All I had left of him was a picture of us that he gave my mother with a note on the back that said “thank you”.

I didn’t get it. What had I done? Why wasn’t I enough? I thought we would be inseparable. My heart ached, and my tears fell each night, wondering what went wrong. I thought he was the one, and though I knew in my heart that wasn’t the truth, I had a hard time letting go. 

I’d get a glimpse of him throughout the years. A news story here, a snippet there. Every time I heard about some extraordinary act that saved someone’s life, I knew it was him. I’d be reminded of that night in the barn, and the sorrow in his eyes as if he carried the weight of the world on his shoulders. He thought he was responsible for so much. I wanted to carry some of that burden for him, but I knew that I couldn’t. 

A decade later our town was torn apart. I went from shopping to fearing for my life. One of the monsters that had attacked main street was advancing on me and I closed my eyes, wanting those blue eyes that I’d so long ago fallen in love with to be the last thing I pictured. I felt a rush of wind and opened my eyes. I was in a corn field, staring at a man in a red and blue suit but it was his eyes that held my gaze. Deep, soulful blue eyes that held so much history, so much depth. I gasped as I recognized them.

“Clark.” 

He shook his head softly, giving me that smirk that I remembered from all those years ago.

“Kal-El.”

And then he was gone, and I was left staring into the sky, all the snapshots of our history suddenly connecting. It finally made sense; he wasn’t mine to have. 

He belonged to the world, and they needed him more than me.

[ignobleknight2]

Copy, don’t reblog please.

The muse’s theme song: Bülow - Own Me 

Song that plays when meeting your muse the first time: Ashniko - No Brainer 

Music that best fits a normal day in their life: Fun - Some Nights 

Music that plays in a moment of high tension: Mother Mother - Seven

Battle theme: Body Head Bangerz ft. 2piece - Can’t Be Touched (Remix)

Music that best sums any relationships with your muse: (for Rex)  Grabbitz - Painkiller | June - A Little Messed Up |  Liza Anne - I Love You but I Need Another Year

An angsty song: Alec Benjamin - Gotta Be a Reason | Gregory and the Hawk - Stone Wall Stone Fence 

A deciding/crucial/important/final boss battle theme:  Blue Monday (DJ Mikro Remix Edit)

Music that plays at the end of your muse’s arc/story:  Downhill - Lincoln 

BONUS- a music that best sums up an AU: iamundernodisguise - School of Seven Bells (Dusty Ani AU)

Stolen from @hxdrostorm :3 <3

[bringinbackpod]

Interview with Cam

Together with American Songwriter and Sean Ulbs of The Eiffels, we had the pleasure of interviewing Cam over Zoom video! 

“One second, let me just put a baby on a boob!” Camaron Ochs, or Cam professionally and to her friends, is at home at the start of 2020. The new decade not only brings her re-entry into music with a brand new album of her best ever work, but it welcomes Cam too as a first-time mother having just given birth over the holiday season. The 35-year-old has an old soul but a young heart and she has always approached her career and her artistry in the way only Cam knows how. Prolific and adored, Cam has had a tremendous start in the industry. She has co-written with Sam Smith for his album (the song also became the soundtrack for an exquisite Apple commercial) and toured with him around North America. She lent her writing voice to Miley Cyrus’ Bangerz album and she opened for Harry Styles at the legendary Ryman in Nashville. Forget genres, there is a deeper through-line at work: individuals in pursuit of earnest self-awareness. And they continue supporting each other as both Smith and Styles have writing credit on Cam’s new album.

This commitment to her own truth has led to some of her proudest moments outside of her music (giving a TED talk, working in both the GRAMMY and ACM Diversity & Inclusion Task Force) and it’s the reason for some of the most difficult moments as well. She took a stand in 2018 and asked to be separated from Sony Nashville, whose operations were not in line with her values. For that reason, it's been five years since her debut LP which came hot off the tail of Grammy, CMA & ACM nominated hit in 'Burning House' (still the best-selling country song by a female solo artist over the past 5 years) and two years since the release of global favorite 'Diane' – a modern-day 'Jolene'.

It was a move that often jeopardizes an artist’s career but the risk paid off. Now working solely with RCA, she bought herself some time, and with it, she refined songs, and her voice strengthened via multiple international tours. She hustled despite the stress of the situation. She didn’t wait for someone to wave a magic wand. “The whole body of work is better for having gone through that crazy shit. That's life, right?” she says. The album is the one she wanted to make, how she wanted to make it. The songs were written in LA, Nashville and NYC over the past three years. She used the same collaborators in executive producers Tyler Johnson (Harry Styles, Sam Smith) and Grammy winner Jeff Bhasker (Kanye West, Bruno Mars), who she calls her fellow “tinkerers”.

The songs on the resulting LP The Otherside contain that kind of classic familiarity that means you only need to hear them once before they're rolling around in your head. The lead single 'Till There's Nothing Left' is a sexy power ballad that moves like an uptempo. It's an unashamed from-the-gut testament to giving your everything to your one true love.

The Otherside is so titled because it contains songs and stories from the perspective of hindsight, once the dust has settled, and they're written from Cam's purest heart pangs. Cam writes openly about her gorgeous relationship with her husband ('Like A Movie', 'Classic'), and she also writes damningly about her own inability to get over lovers past ('Forgetting You When I'm Alone'), and about the messy endings of her friends' relationships ('What Goodbye Means'). It's about falling in love in those back seats, then falling out of it as the same cars drive away from you never to be seen again.

It's novel to listen to an album with so many love songs while the world burns, but it's necessary. There's something about our big optimistic pursuit of romance that keeps us standing still. Cam's tales are so lovely they inspire hope for anyone who seeks something similar.

"You do it your own way and you make sure it's visible so other people don't have to feel so alone in it,” she says. Who needs normal when you have Cam?

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[homagecollage]

Music Birthday: J-Bo 🔊🎉Today, October 4, 1977, J-Bo, of the YoungBloodZ, was born Jeffrey Raymond Grigsby, in Atlanta, GA. ‘I Smoke, I Drank,’ the duo’s collaboration with Body Head Bangerz, peaked at no. 81 on the US Hot 100. Song served as lead single from Body Head Bangerz debut album, “Body Head Bangerz: Volume One.”

[stere03]

Miley Cyrus - She Is Coming - EP Review

This is Miley’s first release since 2017’s Younger Now and I was really looking forward to Miley changing directions for whatever she was gonna do next.  Miley has stated that Younger Now was a “for her” album, which allows me to let it slide.  In reality, albums/EPs like Bangerz, Dead Petz, & SHE IS COMING just FEEL more like authentic Miley.  They’re wild, a little gritty, and unpredictable.  That’s something that I always thought made Bangerz so well received; she went with true-to-herself music and that’s the only way to have a good album made.  Two of her biggest hits were from that era (“We Can’t Stop” & “Wrecking Ball”) and there’s no denying the power those songs had at the time, they were everywhere.  It almost feels like she hasn’t made anything but “Malibu” since then, but this EP has already turned some heads.  

There was some promotion before the EP dropped, mainly performing the songs and her appearance on this season of RuPaul’s Drag Race.  So when SHE IS COMING dropped, it almost felt like a surprise release, with no singles preceding it, even though we knew she was bound to drop something. “Mother’s Daughter” did eventually get the single treatment a short while after the release despite being one of the less commercially appealing tracks.  It’s video was actually what pushed me over the edge to give this EP a listen, I had honestly forgotten about it.  After hearing the first single I felt forced to listen to “Cattitude” because it says “feat. RuPaul” after it.  Only Miley would get the mother of all drag queens to feature on a song like this; very in your face, raunchy and (how Miley puts it) “so nasty.”  It’s the dirtiest I’ve heard RuPaul talk in a song, but that doesn’t make this bad, it makes it ridiculous and fun.

In hindsight, I shouldn’t have skipped ahead to “Cattitude,” this EP is one that should be heard at least once straight through.  “D.R.E.A.M.” perfectly flows into “Cattitude” with RuPaul almost interrupting Killah during the final verse.  “D.R.E.A.M.” is easily my favorite from this EP, it starts off very pop and brings in some trap elements, before going into the catchiest chorus she had since “We Can’t Stop.” It could be 2 minutes of the chorus on repeat and I’d still think the song is a jam.  

SHE IS COMING isn’t going to be the only release we’ll see from her this year, it’s actually EP 1 of 3, all of which will be considered her new album, SHE IS MILEY CYRUS.  In retrospect, it’s a release strategy that mimics Robyn’s Body Talk, giving us pieces of the album before it’s all out.  I’m indifferent to the strategy, but as long as she continues releasing music like this, she can put it out however she likes.  There’s a real atmosphere she pulls off with this record that I can only describe as a “gay summer block party.”  “Unholy” is a shorter track with only one verse, but it’s got a chorus that’s enough to have everyone shouting it out.  But the other track on this EP that really stood out to me was “Party up the Street” because it’s not a club banger, or a drinking song, it just feels very real.  It’s lyrics do a very good job at setting a scene alongside the music while capturing that atmosphere that I was talking about.  It’s easy to picture yourself driving down a suburban streets on a hot, sticky day, in a car with no air conditioning, trying to find parking for a “party up the street.”  This is one track that’s almost integral to the EP itself, if it was taken out it would be missing something.  It was also a good transition into the last track on here, “The Most.”  This track, to me, comes across like a reflection people go through after a night out of partying; it can be good, or it can be bad.  It was a good, unexpected closer to an EP like this.

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Favorite Tracks: D.R.E.A.M. & Party up the Street Least Favorite: The Most

★★★★★★★½ - 7.5/10

Twitter: https://twitter.com/STERE_03

[whittlebaggett8]

7 noteworthy albums and songs to stream on Spotify this weekend, Defence Online

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Miley Cyrus performs at the Radio 1 Massive Weekend on May perhaps 25, 2019.

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Friday is usually a massive day for tunes, but in the earth of YouTube and streaming companies, it can be hard to continue to keep observe of new releases.

Which is the place we occur in. Every single 7 days, INSIDER selects albums and tracks – ordinarily new, in some cases old but related – that we think ought to have your awareness.

This week, in addition to Miley Cyrus’ bold new EP “She Is Coming,” you can listen to Mark Ronson’s new collaboration with Camila Cabello and Phantogram’s initial one in a few several years. Continue to keep reading to see our four further picks and why we pulled them out of the fray.

1. “Mother’s Daughter” by Miley Cyrus

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“She Is Coming” is the 1st of three EPs that will precede Miley Cyrus’ seventh studio album.

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RCA Documents

The 6 tracks on Miley Cyrus’ new EP, “She Is Coming,” perform to reconcile the several-varied faces of her vocation – from the hip-hop-hefty “Bangerz” and experimental “Dead Petz” to the nostalgic, nation-infused “Younger Now.”

In this way, the EP is not normally profitable. But its direct monitor, “Mother’s Daughter,” surely is. The track is deliciously carefree, irresistibly confident, and serves as the best thesis assertion for Cyrus’ recent era.

Hear to “Mother’s Daughter” here.

2. “Find U Again (feat. Camila Cabello)” by Mark Ronson

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“Find U Again” is possible the second solitary off Mark Ronson’s future album.

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RCA Records

Mark Ronson is accountable for a certainly head-boggling amount of hits, including “Uptown Funk” with Bruno Mars, “Electricity” with Dua Lipa, and his most modern joint, “Nothing Breaks Like a Heart” with Miley Cyrus. The impossibly catchy “Find U Again” continues that custom.

Ronson told Beats 1 host Zane Lowe that he was trying to uncover anyone who would match the song’s present melody, and Camila Cabello “just nailed it.”

“I consider I was actually driving,” he mentioned, “and both ‘Havana,’ ‘Consequences,’ I can’t bear in mind – a little something arrived on and I was just like, ‘Oh my god, that is the voice.’”

Hear to “Find U Again” here.

3. “Into Happiness” by Phantogram

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Josh Carter and Sarah Barthel kind the duo acknowledged as Phantogram.

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Republic Records

Phantogram’s new one is the duo’s initial important release in a few several years. Followers have been scrambling for their unique model of dreamy, digital, dark-pop-rock – and “Into Happiness” doesn’t disappoint. As they’ve not long ago hinted on social media, the music seems to signal a brighter, much more optimistic period for Josh Carter and Sarah Barthel.

Pay attention to “Into Happiness” below.

4. “Glad He’s Gone” by Tove Lo

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Tove Lo is popular for hits like “Habits” and “Talking Body.”

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Island Information

Tove Lo designed a reputation on irresistible hooks and unfiltered lyrics. “Glad He’s Gone” is just that. The singer describes it as, “the obligatory pep-talk you give your girlfriend when she’s going by way of a breakup.” The song’s bubbly, shiny production helps make it a need to-increase to any summertime playlist.

Hear to “Glad He’s Gone” listed here.

5. “Love Your self / With My Complete Heart” by Sufjan Stevens

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“Love By yourself / With My Entire Heart” was introduced on Wednesday.

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Asthmatic Kitty Records

All the things that made us slide in appreciate with Sufjan Stevens – heartfelt lyricism, glowing synths, smooth melodies – is on comprehensive screen in his quick new challenge.

“Love Yourself / With My Complete Coronary heart,” which is in essence comprised of two major tracks, was released to celebrate the commencing of Pride Thirty day period on Saturday. And it is the best segue into a thirty day period which is ostensibly developed to celebrate like, in all its kinds. In a push release, Stevens mentioned the next tune, “With My Complete Heart,” was born of his want to “write an upbeat and sincere enjoy tune with no conflict, anxiety or self-deprecation.”

Listen to “Love On your own / With My Total Heart” below.

8. “Nightmare” by Halsey

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A even now from Halsey’s “Nightmare” music video.

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Halsey/YouTube

Halsey’s latest single was unveiled very last week, but it manages to nevertheless really feel refreshing with every hear. It’s in contrast to anything the singer has created ahead of. But as Jason Lipshutz noted for Billboard, it’s her most daring, suitable, and essential music to day.

“‘Nightmare’ and its video clip,” Lipshutz wrote, “serve as an inadvertent catharsis subsequent a national story that has proved deeply upsetting to women across the nation. Halsey’s most recent solitary is that ‘angry anthem,’ at a time when a lot of desired a single.”

Pay attention to “Nightmare” right here.

7. “ZUU” by Denzel Curry

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“Zuu” is Denzel Curry’s fourth studio album.

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Harmony

Denzel Curry is one particular of the best and most influential “SoundCloud rappers” in the match, so his ascent to mainstream stardom is certainly just one to observe. He’s presently opening for superstar teen Billie Eilish on her North American tour, and his new album “Zuu” is precisely the variety of fresh new, frenzied, and exhilarating music that these enthusiasts will appear craving.

Hear to “Zuu” here.

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Music Favorites: May 2017

SO.MUCH.NEW.MUSIC! Hence why this is in a separate post since I didn’t want to make the favorites post so long. Here is the music I have been loving this month!

Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

If you have read my Hamilton post you’ll know how much I love this musical and soundtrack. It’s a hip-hop musical about the life of founding father Alexander Hamilton. I know, it sounds weird. That was my response as well. But give this a chance. It’s absolutely amazing. The songs are very versatile, from rap battles to Broadway showstoppers. The characters are portrayed by people of color because Lin-Manuel Miranda (the creator of the musical) wanted to portray how America looks today (YES!). I’m not a Broadway fan, at all. But this, this is something that you can love even if you don’t like Broadway. Trust me, you will not be disappointed.

Paradinha - Anitta

Anitta is a Brazilian singer and I absolutely adore her. She’s so good. I don’t know what she’s singing most of the time, but there’s nothing google can’t fix. Paradinha is her newest song and it’s in Spanish?! I was really surprised because Anitta usually sings in Portuguese. But this song is super catchy and perfect for the summer!

Nicki Minaj

Nicki is killing it right now. She dropped 3 songs of her own, “Regret In Your Tears” (!!!), “No Frauds” (feat. Drake & Lil Wayne) and “Changed It” (feat. Lil Wayne). All of these are incredible, I love the direction Nicki is going in! Besides these, Nicki has been featured in a lot of songs: “Run Up” (by Major Lazer feat. PARTYNEXTDOOR), this is an absolute jam, “Kissing Strangers” (by DNCE), “Light My Body Up” (by David Guetta feat. Lil Wayne), “Swalla” (by Jason Derulo feat. Ty Dolla $ign) and “Swish Swish” (by Katy Perry). Her verses are the highlight of all these songs! Can’t wait for her next album to come out.

I’m The One - DJ Khaled feat. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance The Rapper & Lil Wayne

A lot of people. But what a hit is this?! Another contender for song of the summer, to be honest. I love Justin, so I was super excited for this collab with DJ Khaled! The beat, the rhymes and Justin’s vocals! It’s a yes from me.

Malibu - Miley Cyrus

MILEY IS BACK!!!! I have been waiting for so long. I loved the Bangerz album, but this is the Miley that I fell in love with. This song is super chill. Everytime I listen to it, I always imagine myself listening to it in the car with the windows down driving by the beach! It really makes you feel like you’re in Malibu (although I have never been)!

No Promises - Cheat Codes feat. Demi Lovato

This song came out months ago, but I feel like people are just discovering this. When I first heard it, the only thing that came to mind was SUMMER. It’s perfect. Demi’s vocals go so well with EDM beats. I hadn’t heard of Cheat Codes before, but they really hit the mark with No Promises. You will not be disappointed by this one.

Felices Los 4 - Maluma

I actually got tickets this month to see Maluma in September here in Holland and I can’t wait.  I actually wasn’t that fond of Maluma in the beginning, but I eventually warmed up to him. He has a really recognizable voice and that’s great. Now this song is awesome. It starts a bit slow, but once you get to the chorus you just want to dance. It’s actually a very sexy song. And I adore it.

Bad Liar - Selena Gomez

I was really surprised when I first heard this. It is very different from what Selena has done in the past and to be honest I wasn’t a big fan of this song at all. After a couple more listens, it started to warm up to me. It actually is a really good song. The song samples Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer” and it is a breath of fresh air from what you hear on the radio nowadays. If you didn’t like it the first time, maybe you’ll like it after a few more listens.

Whiskey Kisses - MIC Lowry

Maybe you have never heard them before and that’s okay. MIC Lowry is a group of 5 guys from Liverpool, UK. I hadn’t heard of them until they were announced as Justin’s (when you see Justin on my blog 99,9% of the time I’m talking about Bieber) opening act on the Purpose Tour. I checked them out on YouTube (they have a lot of great covers on there) and I was really impressed by their vocal ability. When I heard them live at the Purpose show, I was even more impressed. They were phenomenal. So after that, I started listening to their own stuff on Spotify and I was surprised by how good it was (”Heart Of Yours” is a personal favorite). “Whiskey Kisses” is their new song and it’s good. Their voices are all great and the beat is very fun. It’s definitely different from what they have done in the past, but it’s very nice.

El Dorado - Shakira

Shakira is back with her newest album, El Dorado. After the first single came out, “Chantaje” featuring Maluma, I was excited for the rest and it did not disappoint. With features from some of the best in the Latin music scene today (Nicki Jam, Maluma, Carlos Vives and Prince Royce), this is album captures the latin music of today! With songs that are perfect for a hot summer, I can’t wait to jam out to the album once the temperatures are going to start heating up! My favorites include: Chantaje (featuring Maluma), Nada, When A Woman and Coconut Tree.

Despacito (Remix) - Luis Fonsi feat. Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber

Pretty sure that almost everybody knows this song now and not just the remix, but also the original. What I’m so astonished by is the fact that I had never heard of Despacito before Justin jumped on the track. So I was very surprised when I woke up one morning to see that Justin was on a Latin song and when I heard he was actually singing in Spanish my mouth basically dropped. His Spanish sounded pretty good in fact (coming from somebody who isn’t fluent in Spanish, so please if his Spanish isn’t as good as I thought, let me know). This is just such a jam, I’m sure you’ll love it. If you don’t love Bieber, don’t worry, the original track has got your back. 

To see all my favorite songs at the moment, check out my Spring 2017 playlist on Spotify! I frequently update the playlist so feel free to follow it.

That was my post for today. I hope you enjoyed it and even found some new tunes for you to listen to. Thank you so much for reading.

Stay Flawless.

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Tell me a story: Yoga Abroad

It had been a long day since the Argentinian had MIA-ed into the sunset, leaving me groping for serenity that very long Wednesday before yoga teacher training was to begin. "Allo!" The hostel owner who everyone called "Daddy" chimed as I shuffled from my porch to my moped. Damn. I wanted something herbed to counterbalance my lunch of nerves and tempeh and air. Ten more minutes till I was expected to be at the Shala for what would be either a savasana cocktail of celebrity rehab or an om orgasm with taut Nordic goddesses who probably moonlighted as amber-infused Bhagavagita sexologists. I was gonna take my gamble and go find out after shelling out the skrilla G's in a moment of BLANKKKKK upheaval one hungover morning in Bangkok just two weeks prior. Time to smatter my Traggae Surf hostel wall with Giselle Bunchden and "Touch Yourself, Ganesh Offspring" quotes.

I decided to walk and observe everything to get into the practice of being "authentically mindful." It took me 3 times of listening to Yo Gotti's "Act Right" before I reached the tranquil wood sign of "Yoga Searcher, Uluwatu, Bali." There was a happy Buddha emblazoned on the coinage that I had arrived to find myself. Skeptical, a little. Facetious, no… it just dawned on me and probably a million times before that I could be the anti-christ to these types of programs. I'd always simultaneously cringed and fawned over the "yoga gurl" pics insta kept on titillating rotation: yoga gurl stretching into some fantastical bridge position, her bronzed bod entwined with an inspirational quote of having "found inner peace" in Peru. "Yoga gurl" sipping out of a chlorophyll coconut like it was the most delicious double-shot of patron that she'd ever guzzled. "Yoga gurl" beaming at her dreaded washboard abs surfer boyfriend, congratulating her graduation with matching sun and moon tattoos and the coordinates of where they'd once met at a surfer ashram.

Why was I here? Did I want to be yoga gurl? Textbook guilty. It was time to reinvent after spending far too much time withdrawn into a shell of "the post-grad life." I could've just bought a $30 insurance covered therapy session a few times a week with a frumpily dressed yet moderately compassionate shrink but nooooo, no no no... I had to go to BALI to talk about problems and laugh with nonchalance when I realized that my hair salty and my toes so tanned meant the world was so fine now, so fine.  I could envision my previous selves clustering together to meet about this cosmic life transition, sharing kombucha while wondering where the wine and whiskey was hidden, rumpling a NYTimes paper to a Jay Z banger, reflecting then brushing off the meanderings with "oh, please, let's just say fuck it and do it. It'll be a great story." Indeed. I wandered up to the Shala, the grass seeming to emanate inner peace itself as it swayed by the infinity pool, inviting the gorgeous participants to "let that shit go." Beautiful women in flowing bohemian glory wandered up the steps, not breaking a sweat in the 90 degree sun, their smiles like sumptuous macca whirling in a sea of boison berries. "Welcome," one of our instructors, Amy, greeted us. I loved her immediately. Her hair was a fiery crown of auburn and she had a septum and her voice was as soothing as dark chocolate dashed in Jameson; when she said "gra" in her Irish lilt I wondered why Hozier hadn't married her already.

We all settled into our crimson pillows and were told to interview a partner so we could learn, embrace, introduce, get to know each other. My partner, Rebecca, was a holistic wunderkind platonic supermodel with a dash of sass who I assumed could do the splits with the conviction of the Dalai Lama's blessing. When it came time to go around the circle, she read my answers as I challenged myself to unravel from a painful expression of half-lotus that I could definitely not do: "Isabelle loves the color black, Bobby Shmurda club bangerz, painting, reading. She is currently traveling on her own for three months and has no expectations of what her experience will be here. She just wants to learn how to breathe and connect with parts of herself that she feels like she has lost." Goddamn, I wanted to cry for myself. Thank god everyone going around the circle wasn't set on this teacher track, they  just wanted some expensive therapy with prayer beads and Shiva and all that. There would undoubtedly be the Eat Pray Lover who had found her moksha in India and in her rose-smelling coitus, but om mani padmi om to her.

I had always loved yoga, but like with everything else, I tended to conceptualize the whole experience into a tangent web of intellectualized thoughts and associations. Or inappropriate metaphors. I loved the feeling of the actual exercise, but all of this head business made it so that it was an experience outside of me usually; the spirituality had not yet caught me, although that was why I was precisely in Bali at the golden temple shala at that very moment. I wanted a jolt and so I was going to throw caution to the wind with a degree of control based on the internet's blessing of great reviews of women who were trying to do the same thing as me at yoga retreats and teacher trainings abroad. I'd felt like I'd been unraveling for a bit already, so decluttering some of the mess seemed beyond essential and spiritual tourism was what I thought would be quite the graceful quick fix.

The next few weeks turned into an amalgamation of self-discovery and trying to do certain asana positions and also some penetrating flares of frustration but also laughter at the absurdity of some "unfoldings." Every morning started at 5:30 am in the shala, which meant rolling out of bed and spraying myself with delicious DEET at 5:10 AM before sauntering out the door to walk with my neighborhood bombshells, Greta (from Wisconsin) and Becks (from Norway). Thankfully, Becks and I would sprint back to "Daddy" come 7:30 AM to guzzle buttloads of delish Balinese coffee while commiserating about how our hips couldn't open and yet how we loved Dipa's lectures on the feminine and the masculine merged into perception within the concept of the 8 folds of yoga. After this ritual I would usually blare Schoolboy Q and practice twrking (always come prepared) for a solid 40 minutes before going back to the shala for some alignment where I prayed that we would have partner massage sessions that would make my celibate self feel some firing synapses.

I found some soul sistahs in my atypical American peers. Erin and I found each other at the next door warung when she explained how she wanted some body bounce and less namestes. She became #1 woe. She is the baddest bitch of them all, especially when we listened to E-40 by the pool and she claimed in-person basis with the bay's pride and glory. And she worked at Twitter and claimed a title in an Aussie wet t-shirt contest and has traveled the whole world and is an acclaimed blogger. And would do neck shots of tequila with me. We became each other's co-dependent trap queens at the local Single Fin club. Thank god I wasn't in love while I was incorporating into this yogini program. Instead I meditated on everything I was looking for and why I was alone and why I was so ecstatic to be single (until 10 pm). It was like a study abroad for starving yourself on green juice and breathing and all I had to do was make decisions for me. My agenda was to get everything out of my system, although that comes at a cost: because then you actually discover yourself. And that can be... hard. But necessary. I realized I was a whole person and so was everyone else no matter what point in life they were at. Basically, yoga teacher training is like a caftan clad sorority who hold a cave open for worshipping Jack Johnson and period moon goddess parties. The worst part was feeling simultaneously annoyed and a little crestfallen that I couldn't cry post-meditation while others sobbed about varying levels of tragedy and spontaneous emotion. It was as if a little Eagle perched on my soul and clawed at any inkling of a tear. I cried when the nutritionist talked about how her old friends who drank cheap wine and smoked cigs didn't accept her newfound love affair with kale and B12 shots. Figures.

On a lighter note, I would check my Tinder abroad after an arduous day of leg flexing. Here is what I found that led me to keep doing downward dog to soul search and not find men.

Not too savory. But I would often wash away the unsightlyness of it all with a good ol' gin and tonic with the American girls, especially after getting our yoga certificates in our crocheted crop tops. One interesting note: Americans cannot accept awards without looking like complete douche bags. We all joked about it afterwards that the four of us couldn't make heartfelt speeches like the fellow Europeans did. We just collect those trophies like candies, stating after the acceptance, "yeah, thanks guys, love you" as a token of our appreciation. Point of relation, apparently.

The whole yoga experience has made wonder what acceptance is other than just where you are right now. It's also made me curious as to how it is apart of the woman I hope to be or already am. I mostly feel humbled and grateful for the women I got to know for a solid month straight x 1000 hypothetical days of deep talks. And for the times that I wondered about who I was; well, that will continue, and so will the sideways splits of discovering bad-assness that yoga training taps you into. I was gonna write a blog on travel tips and then I ended up writing a blog on inappropriate metaphors. Because that's just me.