1. Disclosure - You & Me (Flume Mix)
2. Kygo - Firestone ft. Conrad Sewell
3. Jetlag ft. Esther - Walk With Me
4. Tourist - I Can't Keep Up (feat. Will Heard)
5. Alesso feat. Tove Lo - Heroes (Grandtheft Remix)
Please click on the "EP!" hyperlink to play my EP created for the Music Taste challenge. If for some reason one of the videos in the playlist is unavailable in your country then feel free to search for the song from the above track-list.
The songs I've selected for my EP are very representative of where I am and where I'm headed.
I have so many intense feelings and emotions but I rarely speak my mind and share my true
desires with anyone. I have a love and passion for songwriting which nobody in my personal
life knows about because I'm constantly putting up walls to protect myself from the possibility
of rejection or failure, which are two of my greatest fears. However I know that if I want to do this
I need to face my demons and stop being my own worst critic. I think my biggest fear is that in
pursuing what I want, I'll be leaving everything I know behind and I'm not sure if I'm ready for
complete independence. But I know I need to start moving on with my life. I need to begin… the ride.
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5 times a week, I start my day with a run. It gives me energy, makes me happy and I can't do it without some fun and energetic tunes. My morning playlist is the inspiration of my EP.
Part of being open-minded is being able to enjoy a wide variety of music, being opened to new ideas like enjoying music from the past and discover the classic gems that inspire my current favorite artists. My EP is made of songs from the post-disco era of the late 70s to the hip hop era of the 90s. This collection remains cohesive thanks to the joyous nature of the songs, the boost of energy they give you and the fact that they are party favorites that help us enjoy music and life.
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Fear. We can fear anything, from being tied
down to a job we don't enjoy, to our own impulses and
feelings, to dying alone. We can fear the wasting of our
own potential, and we can fear rejection. Fear is natural,
inevitable, and universal.
Life is funny and weird sometimes. Relationships are weird. I've gone through a lot in my life, and last year being easily one of the worst years of my life (at the time I was also dealing with the loss of my grandmother). Being taken advantage of, having my life change immediately. Still feeling like you have feelings for a monster, and really not knowing how to let it go. Being cheated on, along with victim blaming. Behind the facade that I show on here, i'm much different outside of ATRL. My life was pretty much destroyed, and I never hated myself more. But I knew I needed to be strong. For myself, because i'm not worthless, I have a meaning. This is something very hard to talk about, but knowing i've overcome it is what's remarkable to me. Each song represents a phase. For me still being in "love", to overcoming what has happened. An emotional roller coaster through and through. These are also some of my favorite songs of all time as well, so.
a well-done self-titled album is an artist unfiltered, 100% themselves
it's something I genuinely respect, that an artist can express themselves without any constraint
what it represents to me is what I myself would hope to achieve, not having to pretend or conform
each of these songs are my favourites from self-titled albums, inspiring me to be nothing less than me
The mistakes we make, in life, shape who we are. My objective for this EP was to give a retrospective glimpse of my experiences and mistakes. Like I realize how people view my hometown, of Vegas, as a 24-hour party city: We drink, we ****, we smoke and we don’t give one ****. For my teenage years this was how it was, but looking back, all that partying was just a way of sedating the sting of a few scars. Ultimately, this is an ode to my adolescence, to all the mistakes that taught me real life lessons and for helping me realize there are bigger things in store for me.
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Beyonce is the Queen Beyonce is the Queen Behind Dreaming in BDD: The EP
I’m a huge dreamer and probably my biggest dream is to find true love. (Yeah, very Disney, I know). Unfortunately as I grew up, I developed and was soon diagnosed with BDD (Body Dysmorphic Disorder). Depressive thoughts also ran through my head. Fun-fact: A test a took with my psychologist deemed me as clinically depressed. Depression runs through my family (1-2 of my family members takes meds for it). Fun, huh? When I turned 20 and went to Florida to do the DCP, **** just hit the fan. I started to hookup to ease the pain and to feel wanted. Though, it's temporary relief and became this messy cycle. Even with compliments from guys and my mom (who does it all the time and needs to stop because it's like hearing nails on a chalkboard), and getting better with time, I still don’t like me. Though, somewhere deep down it is known that I have a beautiful soul and personality and I cannot lose myself while going through my pain. Hopefully one day I’ll get to fly and overcome my troubles. To find someone in the future who loves me for me, who I let in on my deepest secrets and places that I keep locked up inside me. But for now I’m still lost..
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I've been dealing with depression for years now, and the worst part of it has always been the crippling loneliness I've felt. Each song here addresses a feeling that I know well: the feeling of desperately wanting—needing—to connect to someone. That this EP consists of my favorite songs from five of my favorite artists is unintentional, and beside the point. The point is that music has always managed to fill the void that people have left in my life, and these songs not only describe this—they embody it. These are songs that plead for closeness, that capture the feeling of lacking any sort of meaningful connection to the people that surround you, that indicate a man's willingness to fully attach himself to someone when the opportunity arises, that desperately beg for reassurance that the bond you've formed will never be severed, that offer comfort that you will never be alone, even in your darkest hour. "Safe & Sound" is an especially important inclusion here. It's both my favorite and most played song of all time, which are distinctions that it's earned by being the one song that could always comfort me, calm me, reassure me. Taylor seems to say, "You'll always have me, no matter how alone you may be." It's a significant message when it comes from your favorite artist, and it harkens back to a quotation of Hers that has resonated with me since I was just 13: "People haven't always been there for me, but music always has." These are amongst the many songs that have been there for me.
"Dollhouse," by Melanie Martinez solemnly opens the EP. Melanie's ominous tone & deceitful lyrics help paint a picture; one that reveals the matriarch cares more about what picture everyone else sees and less about what you see. It's followed by "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams," which expands upon the theme that there is lack of cohesion in the relationship between the narrator & his mother, however, despite succumbing to seclusion, begins to find warmth in the solitude.
Furthermore, "Losing my religion," dives deeper into the basis from which this all stemmed; the song is about an obsessive attraction, that stammering, self-conscious urge to reveal and yet hide feelings that you know are not shared steers the conversation towards the narrators love life, the focal point in the narrator & mother's lack of respect for one another. The narrator is physically and mentally losing his religion by lying with the same sex. The final two tracks expand upon self-acceptance and fighting for what you believe in despite what those close to you say; time is too short to be wasting away living for others & that's essentially what this EP is about at the end of the day.
A mess at me being the only one with really mainstream picks.
I see some songs I really love here! Edge of Glory, Mine, WANEGOD, Devils Don't Fly.
Not a single Madonna song.
I wanted to, but I couldn't fit one in.
And I nearly used EOG instead of Closer, but I'd already named my EP after Closer + studio EOG just didn't fit right. But I'm glad I didn't use it. We would've repeated, and that's no fun.
Oh, and this didn't fit into my paragraph, but my 'album cover' is taken from the Sistine Chapel image of God and Adam, and you should be able to figure out why I chose to use that.
I was gonna make a spotify playlist of everyone's entries. But I'm too lazy. Plus 2 of Sub's people aren't there and I can't be bothered with yall's "remix, ... version" distinctions.
Are Superpower and T-Swizz getting an automatic disqualification for submitting more than one paragraph?
And UGH all of these are terribly formatted on mobile, except for Sam, Superpower, Buddy, Era, T-Swizz, and mine. Yall are really testing me with your white fonts and embedded yt/spotify players.
Disclosure and Katy are here twice as well. Maybe Rih and Bey? IDK what your songs even are...
And thanks sis.
Don't be lazy
My tracklist:
1. Celebration by Kool & The Gang
2. Love Like This by Faith Evans
3. Everybody by Backstreet Boys
4. I Wanna Dance With Somebody by Whitney Houston
5. U Can't Touch This by MC Hammer
You're all invited to party at my house whenever you feel like partying
Okay, I scored and ranked since this is my first and last chance before the deadline. Since I didn't do comments I just wanted to tell you all that this was easily my favorite round so far to judge. A lot of you really stepped up your game and I'm very proud. That being said, good luck to all of you!
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When I turned 20 and went to Florida to do the DCP, **** just hit the fan. I started to hookup to ease the pain and to feel wanted. Though, it's temporary relief and became this messy cycle. Even with compliments from guys and my mom (who does it all the time and needs to stop because it's like hearing nails on a chalkboard), and getting better with time, I still don’t like me. Though, somewhere deep down it is known that I have a beautiful soul and personality and I cannot lose myself while going through my pain. Hopefully one day I’ll get to fly and overcome my troubles. To find someone in the future who loves me for me, who I let in on my deepest secrets and places that I keep locked up inside me. But for now I’m still lost..
