It Girls.

I don't feel like any social networking site will allow me to rant about something so I've decided to do so here. The topic? It girls. Created to be looked up to and to empower the young teenage girl who is an aspiring anything. I love It-Girls, I do. Their stories give you that spark of hope to fulfill the dream of being what ever you want to be. Unfortunately, they don't empower me, they depress me. I'm sure that this feeling is fueled only by jealousy. My favorite It-Girls create a name for themselves by the time they are sixteen. I turn seventeen in two months and I have no idea where I'm going. Everybody loves the pretty little thing who is sweet and social but here I am on the other side of the spectrum pounding away at the keyboard, spilling out my emotions and spewing with anti-love slogans all over. I must be charming. Would it be foolish of me to think that I don't feel so "out there" because I lack certain freedoms? I feel couped up, I hate where I am, I hate who I'm identified as being with. I feel oppressed. This image I have already created for myself seems to be my downfall. It is as if I had a lot of potential to be that person everybody loved but I broke her. I put up walls around myself with this persona of what people thought I was, separating me from who I really am. Is this only a teenage state of mind? Will I get over this? Am I just tired? Does anyone even look at this blog?

The Midnight Beast

There's no doubt that Ke$ha's song Tik Tok has been stuck in all our heads at some point in the past few weeks so a parody was fucking inevitable. I don't think anyone could do as amazing a job as themidnightbeast. It even addresses how Ke$ha copies some Lady Gaga badassery and the song has you laughing the whole time. Plus, the song isn't hard on the ears so if you like it, they have a downloadable mp3 if you'd rather sing that all day long and get looks that ask, "What the fuck are you saying?"

No One Should Call You a Dreamer.

Animal Collective! Their music sends waves through your body, sending a note to every molecule. My eyes literally widened the first time I heard their incredible song, Are You Also Frightened? Looking up the lyrics on songmeanings.net, I couldn't help but notice what were obviously fans, arguing back and forth over the exact lyrics. As much as I'd love to sing along with this song, I feel just as delighted to listen to it. How lucky am I? The song is a good five to six minutes long, but you'll be happy to hear that, trust me. Oh, My Girls is quite the treat for the ears as well :)


HYPE MACHINE THAT SHIT. CLICK!

I wish it was Christmas today = WIN.

Video Recaps | Full Episodes | Webisodes

I love these three. When I first heard Julian Casablancas' cover on the song, I thought it was lame until I saw this. How dare I forget this original SNL skit?! It was his cover of the Saturday Night Live skit from years ago and I dissed it? Oh, when will I forgive myself? Well, enough rhetorical questions, this was epic. Oh, and I love The Roots too. Fallon is a lucky man.

MORE JULIAN CASABLANCAS GENIUS

Au Revoir Simone

Au Revoir Simone, thank you. You have gifted me with the best pep talk (or song?) ever. I've been painstakingly living the past few days of my life in agony. Only after listening to Only You Can Make You Happy for about two minutes and thirty-eight seconds did I finally hear the the words I was looking for, "Only you can make you happy." EPIPHANY, AT LAST! (Yes, I could have gained this much from just reading the title of the song, but I needed to hear it from the voice of an indie pop angel called Au Revoir Simone.)


AU REVOIR SIMONE ON THE HYPE MACHINE