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Blue Demons

words and music by Timothy Brannigan

Watching old AJR concert is my secret to writing

IM SORRY BUT I GOTTA REBLOG THIS ON MY MAIN............

IM VERY NORMAL ABOUT POPMUSICPOPMUSICPOPMUSIC 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

*me if i had Boxten and Poppy plushies* v

🎶📦 💋 🎀🫧

(i do this sometimes with actual character emojis on discord but this is not discord sadly q_q )

[PART 1]

Don't blame me if the pronunciation is weird here, I'm bad at English

Pre- Medieval/ Viking/ Celtic Aesthetic Playlist

(Pop Music Edition)

-“Act my age” One direction

- “Nancy Mulligan” Ed Sheeran

- “I’m a Mess” Ed Sheeran

- “Runaway” Ed Sheeran

- “Galaway girl” Ed Sheeran

- “Castle On The Hill” Ed Sheeran

- “Something Wild” Lindsey Stirling

-“Devil’s Backbone” The Civil Wars

-“Where No One Goes” John Powell

-“Sticks and Stones” Jónsi

-“I lived” One Republic

- “I see fire” Ed Sheeran

-“Bibia Be Ye Ye” Ed Sheeran

- “Roots” Imagine Dragons

-“Natural” Imagine Dragons

-“Feel That Fire (feat. Whissel)” Tommee Profitt

(I actually don’t know who is the the artist of the last one, but, I know that you can find it on Tommee Profitts YT channel. If you like cinematic music, trust me, you’ll love this guy.)

(via One Direction - Drag Me Down)

Eurovision 2019 - Different genres

It's time to talk about Eurovision! The lists have been shaping during the entire spring and I'm ready to talk! Let's do the different genres first. Even though characterized as a pop song contest which it still is Eurovision holds a large range of influences of other genres as well. I always find sending something else than pure pop to Eurovision as a bold move and nevertheless how well they do they develope the event and give courage to those to think outside of the box!

(in alphabetical order) 

AUSTRALIA / Kate Miller-Heidke / Zero Gravity - Opera /Pop

FINLAND / Darude feat. Sebastian Rejman / Look away - Dance / Pop

HUNGARY / Joci Pápai / Az én apám - Folk/ pop

ICELAND / Hatari / Hatriö mun sigra - techno/rock

ITALY / Mahmood / Soldi - R&B/pop

POLAND / Tulia / Fire of Love (Pali sie) - Folk / choir

PORTUGAL Conan Osiris / Telemóveis - Genreless / mix of everything

Different genres in ESC2018

Who said that Eurovision is just a pop song contest? 

HUNGARY - AWS - Vislát Nyár (heavy metal) - Semifinal II

Hungary’s heavy metal entry is not the one I’d vote for but I’m glad they’re in this year bringing diversity to the competition. Hoping it will do well so it would encourage similar acts coming to ESC in the future. This is how the event will grow. 

THE NETHERLANDS - WAYLON - Outlaw in ‘em (country) - Semifinal II

The Netherlands’ country entry is not bad at all. The song works and he’s got a nice charisma. It’s not my top favorites but not my lowest of the low either. 

ESTONIA - ELINA NECHAYEVA - La forza (opera) - Semifinal I

The first time I heard/ saw this I was only blown away with the dress and visual performance. I was impressed by her singing of course but was unable to like it without seeing the performance as well. Now I’m warming up to the studio version and just listening to it also. This is one of my top favorites this year and what I wouldn’t do for Estonia winning the whole damn thing! But I’m super worried about the news of financial difficulties and bringing the dress to Lisbon. Keeping my fingers and toes crossed so that we’d get to see this in Lisbon as it was in Estonia! 

SLOVENIA - LEA SIRK - Hvala, ne (rap) - Semifinal II

I don’t usually like rap/hip hop but the energy of Slovenian entry just gets me every time! Fine, this is still quite “poppy” but it does stand out! I feel like it’s underrated and I hope more people would find it. She’s performed well at the pre-parties so expectations are high for her Lisbon performance. I’m really, really hoping that this would make it to Grand Final!

Another entries which I don’t find as traditional pop songs are: 

BELGIUM - SENNEK - A matter of time (art pop)

ISRAEL - NETTA - Toy (so much personality in this one) 

Also POLAND - GROMEE FEAT LUKAS MEIJER - Light me up doesn’t stand for me as a traditional upbeat pop song. It has some nice dance, elektronic sounds in it. 

+ several jazzy, soul-spirited entries from LATVIA, AUSTRIA, BULGARIA (see my previous post  about ESC.