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Rihanna - Stupid In Love "So I made it, even though Katy
Told me that this would be nothing but a waste of time
And she was right, hmm"
This song connects to me so much as for the last few years I have been stuck in love with someone who doesn't love me back. I'm in the closet and I guess I kind of had a crush on my old bestfriend (male). We drifted apart but when we were together I was so happy and now that I don't have him it hurts me. He probably ditched me because he realised I had a crush on him. These lyrics I can relate to because sometimes I used to ditch my group of friends to see him or to be with him and they said it was a waste of time. One part of me misses him and the other part knows it's dumb to even think about him.
Kesha - VIP "No there aint no scene in the V.I.P. for me
No it aint no scene for me
No, it aint no scene for me"
This isn't as depressing . I chose this song for two reasons even though they connect with eachother. Firstly, I hate people who think they are above everyone else, whether they are wealthier or prettier or whatever. I'm a judgemental bitch but I never think I'm better than anyone. If I dont agree with what they're doing I will argue until they stop being rude. Also, this song is about partying and getting drunk! I love doing that, but the people around me always complain about people HAVING FUN. I dont want to be held down by anyone so if they're judging me, I'll find someone else. So basically, **** the class system and how rich you are, lets have fun.
Nicki Minaj - I'm The Best
This whole song is about how Nicki started at the bottom and made her way to the top through struggles in her life. I see this as an inspiration for my life to keep working hard at what I want to achieve and then. She talks about buying anything she wants for the fun of it and buying things for her family and one day I want to do that. When I'm procrastinating or getting annoyed at my work in a way it motivates me to do well. Obviously I wont grow up to be the queen of rap but it's a nice inspiration song from one of my favs.
Chill Bill
Chill Bill's "Me" Trinity
If you're my friend, either online or offline, there are three sides of me that you'll probably get to know.
The Goofball "Make 'Em Laugh" from Singin' in the Rain
Just slip on a banana peel, the world's at your feet!
Make 'em laugh, make 'em laugh, make 'em laugh!
I chose "Make 'Em Laugh" from Singin' in the Rain to represent my well-defined humorous side. I love to liven up a conversation with a well-timed pun, I'm a sucker for dad jokes, I dance like a dork whenever my jam comes on ("you wiggle 'til they're giggling all over the place"), and sometimes I'll just break out laughing about something I remember seeing the day before.
And it feels good, you know? There are few things in this world that give me more pleasure than eliciting a laugh from someone else. As Cosmo Brown says, the world loves to laugh. Especially me.
The Mope "Don't Bother Me" by The Beatles
I've got no time for you right now. Don't bother me.
I'll admit, there's a rather jarring change in tone from the first song to the next, but there's a reason for that. See, I've got what I like to call "mood inertia"; when I'm high, almost nothing can bring me down, but when I'm low, almost nothing can cheer me up. Since I've already talked about the former, I chose this song to represent the latter.
It's really hard for me to shake off a bad mood, especially if I feel like I brought it upon myself ("it's not the same, but I'm to blame, it's plain to see"). But just about anything can set one off, be it a fight with my family, a romantic rejection, or a stranger who was rude to me on the bus. "Don't Bother Me" by the Beatles, with its harsh minor chords and dour vocal harmonies, delivers just the right level of angst and moodiness that I feel during one of my "episodes," so to speak. (And who better to deliver that than the quintessential teen idols themselves?)
The Constant Apologizer "Giving Me a Chance" by Gotye
I wish that I could undo what I've done
Get back the faith in me you had.
So let's say that you decided to approach me at a bad time. Here's what'll probably happen; I'll lash out at you, and then I'll spend the rest of the day apologizing for it.
I chose Gotye's "Giving Me a Chance" as the final song, because I'm the kind of person who feels awful about everything I do wrong. Hell, I still feel bad about some of the stuff I posted on ATRL years ago. But it happens; sometimes I'll "get a little wrapped up in myself" (as Gotye puts it) and forget the fact that my words can really hurt people. Once I realize that I have hurt someone, though, I'll feel like the worst person in the world.
Most of the time, my guilt manifests itself as a dull, persistent pain that follows me around for days. This, I find, is aptly represented by my song choice, a delicate, ethereal whimper of an apology song with plenty of pathos to go around.
Clueless
Madonna - Human Nature
This song from Madonna's Bedtime Stories album perfectly embodies my point of view on life. NEVER be sorry for doing and/or saying what you believe is right. Also, as a feminist, this track totally preaches one of the fundamental things I believe: If a man can be open about sex and not be judged, why can't a woman do the same?.. and vise versa. This song also appeals to my realist ideals with it's calling out of the double standard in society.
"And I'm not sorry, it's human nature..."
And now for the cheesy and vulnerable part...
Kate Nash - Merry Happy
A vibe of nostalgia bleeds from this song. I have lost a few rather important people in my life.. some through death and some I may have just lost contant with. It is sometimes crucial to let go and cry about the things pressing you.. this song can always help me do that.
"Yeah you make me merry, make me very very happy.. but you obviously, you didn't want to stick around..."
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Tinashe - 2 On (feat. ScHoolboy Q)
This lighthearted track exemplifies the carefree side of me. I like to laugh things off and try my best not to complain about things I can't fix. Letting loose is a must for a person or they could go completely off the handle. With that being said, there is a line between work and play which must be respected.
"I love to get 2 on, I love to, let-let-let's roll..."
Girlicious
ME
Loyalty & Honesty
Song: Devotion - Ellie Goulding
A main thing for me is loyalty, it's my number one rule. If you are someone who is loyal and honest with me I will be with you. There's nothing that bothers me more than someone who is unloyal and a liar. I am really someone who can get addicted to people after a long trusting relationship and someone scared of letting go. When it comes to relationships I am going for the long haul, I'm not someone that wants a mid-term relationship. I want either a long-term or nothing at all if I am going to be in an official relationship, and I will devote myself to that. So I think devotion is a beautiful song to help illustrate those feelings I have about loyalty and honesty which are strong values to me.
This song speaks about how I am a hopeless romantic in the most personal and perfect way possible. I truly am someone that won't stop til I get the attention of someone I love. As seen in the song $waggot makes up excuses and examples of the guy he has a crush on and describes the aggressive measures he will go to get the attention and love from his crush. This song really shows the uncensored and careless way of life I follow. Regret is another big theme in this song, something that I am terrified of and always try to avoid feeling so I will go to extreme measures to ensure I don't regret the way I did something in the future.
Live By Your Own Rules
Song: Happy Go Sucky ****y - Die Antwoord
This song is a loud but perfect explanation of the way I view life and my ways of life. I really try to live by my own rules, as someone who has no religious background and very open-minded parents expanding my palette to new things is definitely something that I value. Even though sometimes it being a risk, I love trying out new things and living by my own prerogative. Whether it be sexually, spiritually or materialistic I am someone who really wants to make the most of my life and check out every area of what life brings us and travel the world and explore and engage myself in all different cultures and not just learn but involve myself in different ways of life. The rave-like instrumentals and production in this song is a great representation of me to as I am an avid concert goer and I love the feeling and overall environment in a music festival. So many different cultures coming together and you get to meet lots of great people and try out so many new things.
Kyle.
THE "ME" TRINITY
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MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS - HAPPY
My last few years have been rough. I grew apart from a lot of my friends, lost some family members, and experienced an overwhelming amount of change when I moved to a new state. I felt like I had no one there to support me through everything, but this year, my life started going in a whole new direction. I realized that I need to do something about my sadness instead of waiting for the universe to solve all of my problems. Now, in 2016, my life is positive after being negative for so long.
"And all the sadness inside me
Melted away like I was free"
BRITNEY SPEARS - OVERPROTECTED
One of my problems that still remains is my boredom. I am always bored, and I am sick of following the same routine everyday. I want to get out and experience the world. I want to try new things. I want to learn who I am instead of just conforming to societal norms. However, I restrict myself from doing any of these things because I am scared of the consequences; I am overprotecting myself from the world.
"I need to make mistakes just to learn who I am
And I don't wanna be so damn protected"
MADONNA - HUNG UP
I spent most of 2015 yearning for one person who was not reciprocating my feelings. I waited all year for my crush to feel the same way I do, and it never happened. In 2016, I finally realized that I should move on, and coincidentally, that was when they finally started to show feelings towards me. However, I grew tired of waiting for this moment that, at this point, I don't care at all.
"Waiting for your call baby night and day
I'm fed up, I'm tired of waiting on you"
Pecinta Mariah
Me Trinity
∆ BODY ∆
Keaton Henson - Flesh and Bone
"My body's weak"
Exactly! Something's keeping me away from food. I'm a type of person who lost appetite when I'm in a stressful condition or worried about something/someone maybe because I'm starting a completely new life, idk.
∆ MIND ∆
John Mayer - Split Screen Sadness
I'm going to leave my hometown for a very long time in a couple weeks from now. This bugs me and my mind: starting new life, being alone, missing someone who's hundreds miles away from me. However, life happens and it must go on.
∆ SOUL ∆
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Technically I'm not a Christian but I always praise to the Lord. I've grown up in a pretty religious family and until now I still hold my faith tightly. It what keeps me feel peaceful and safe although sometimes I still do so many things that are against my belief.
To me Body Feels EXIT sums up how I feel about my life right now; I don't belong where I am. All of my life no matter where I've lived it's always been very close, tight-knit, small conservative towns or villages and I really don't feel like I belong with them at all. "I'm so lonely, I never knew that the nights could be so long" is relatable to me as sometimes I just can't sleep as I don't really know what to do with myself and I'm just stuck in a state of overthinking where time just passes so, so slowly and during these times I feel so alone. Yet, “I'm sure I'll get out of here someday” & “I'll run strongly, into the wind that blows through the gaps in the buildings to tomorrow” really stick with me as they always gave me a sense of hope that one day I'll finally be in a place where I belong, and they were right as I'm finally moving to a city in a few months time and soon I'll be visiting one of the biggest cities in the whole world.
This song relates to me as I've never really been the most popular person, even in my own friendship group I've always felt like the odd one out, invisible even. “In a world of inivisibilities, there's too many pains.” is extremely relatable. In one of my old schools (I think around year 9), I was forcefully outed against my will and let's just say the school wasn't the most LGBT+ friendly place in the world. I was bullied physically & verbally for it and was driven to the point where I tried to take my own life and because I didn't really have any friends to help me or just to talk about it with, I was so alone and invisible back then. (In fact, it's one of the reasons why my family moved back to England.) “I validate my existence, because I am here.” has become something of a personal mantra to me considering I've lived through all of that and yet I'm still here, and I deserve to not feel like that anymore.
f(x) // Traveler (Feat. Zico)
Ever since I was a little kid, travelling has always been apart of my life. I always moved around for my parents work and school life was so hard for me as I never really stayed in the same place that often until I lived with my grandparents for a couple of years. When I was about 5 my parents started taking me abroad, for both their and just as holiday for me at the time. Then a year or so later we moved over to Portugal on what we thought was a permanent basis, yet my dad still had to travel back and forth between countries for his work (and we sometimes went him, it was mostly Spain at this point). Travelling has become so natural for me now that by this time next month I'll be alone in Tokyo, and hopefully over Summer I'll be staying in Seoul by myself.
As you can clearly see, non of my entries this round are in English. This is because languages play a very important part in my life. For example, they were the only thing I was really good at in school, I'm going to study them when I start university in October, my career will be heavily involved with them and I've managed to connect to so many people and so many different things because of them, so you could say I have a lot to owe to them!
Witch_Privilege
Linkin Park - All For Nothing
This song represents the time and effort I put in last season, only to end up 4th place in the end.
This song represents how I am moving forward from the tragedy that occurred last season, by me getting 4th place.
Kelly Clarkson - Wash Rinse Repeat
This song represents how I'm ****ing insane to put myself through this Hell again, in the hopes that the results will be different.
Musickid203
Open-Minded
Everyone of their flaws their insecurities. We are humans not robots so we are not perfect. Everyday we come across people who aren't the same as us and are judged by our differences. I learned this the hard way through out high school and even earlier on in life. This had made me a pretty accepting person no matter who or what you are. This world is full of diverse things and there's nothing wrong with being different. If anything, we should be ashamed of being the same.
Faithful
One thing I can say for sure about myself is that I'm quite optimistic. Everyday in my life there are situations that could break me. I always remind myself that this isn't the end and that each probem is only temporary and making me stronger in the end. Moping all day will do nothing other than make you mope the next time something goes south. There is always a light at the end of the tunnel and you have to remember that!
Self-assured
Confidence is key. I was taught to keep my head held high no matter the problem or situation. There will always be times where people will try to bring you down but you have to see the value in yourself. And besides, anyone who goes out of their way to steal your joy is completely beneath you. Not only do I think confidence is essential, a little charisma won't hurt anyone also.
DevonDreams
Current Angst It seems a black cloud has been over me for quite some time now and I tend to dwell on the past. I've been suffering from depression for years and listening to this song always reminds me of two people I genuinely loved.
Teenage DreamsIn Superbad, Michael Cera’s character was very indecisive and awkward. This is literally me and I'm constantly told by friends I sound like Michael Cera. Through out school I was known as being weird "until you got to know me," but even then I was still awkward as hell
Childhood Mess As a child I witnessed my mother do drugs and she would always make promises to me about quitting, but to this day she hasn't and listening to this always put me in the position of Katy and it made me start stanning. For years I dreamed about running away.
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