Soundtracks to my life

These past few weeks have been rather stressful and busy for me. However I have maintained a slight sense of peace through all the madness by writing this blog, and my routine that surrounds doing just that. As you know, music plays a large part of my everyday life and I find I write better when I am in a calm and peaceful setting. (Pretty sure as would anyone…. Cool story Bri.) The music I listen to never varies; I listen to one album and one album alone.

Ultraviolence by Lana Del Rey is my writing soundtrack.  This album plays from the moment I settle down to write until the moment I stop, and sometimes long after. Through experience, I have found this album to relax me the most and therefore it gives me the best mindset in which to write. There is also something quite glamorous about Ultraviolence and almost cinematic. Every song is haunting and beautiful, and her voice has an almost hypnotic quality to it. My little routine of sitting down at my computer with a tea and hitting play on iTunes has become something I very much look forward to.

If I absolutely had to choose just one lone album to bring to a desert island and listen to for the rest of my life and only one album, it would hands down be Take Care by Drake. Every single song on that album is more amazing than the last. I am completely obsessed with it. I consider myself not to be an “album” person, and more of a “single” person. (I guess you could say for both songs and life….)  I can probably count on two hands the number of albums I have downloaded in the past five or so years. Upon my first listen of Take Care, I knew I absolutely had to have this album. The flow and order of the songs is perfect and amazing and I identify with so many of his lyrics it’s crazy. Take Care has been out for around three years now and I am not tired of it in the least. Not even when his newer album “Nothing Was The Same” came out (which is completely amazing as well) did it take over first place in the album contest. It is hands down my number one favourite music album of any genre and I could listen to it all day every day comfortably for the rest of time.

Coldplay is probably my favourite band. I love their style of music and all their songs. Their concert I went to in April 2012 in Edmonton was tied with Luke Bryan’s as the best one I had ever been to. I’ve listened to them for years, but it wasn’t until I was in a relationship with my ex-boyfriend that I took any of their beautiful lyrics to heart. Chris Martin really knows how to write a love song, and we both listened to a lot of Coldplay when we were together. We had actually broken up before and I was unable to listen to any Coldplay whatsoever without feeling heartbroken until we had gotten back together. Our breakup two years ago was under extremely different circumstances and there is just one song I don’t listen to anymore. Maybe that was a testament to my true feelings….. that I didn’t feel sadness listening to a band that held a special place in both of our hearts? Anyways I digress. Their album “Mylo Xyloto” is actually my favourite one out of them all. It reminds me of a special time in my life (when it came out) and I love all the songs on that album. Definitely one I can listen to over and over again and love just the same.

Of course I can’t write a post about favourite albums unless “In The Zone” by Britney Spears was mentioned. My favourite Britney album, and one of my all-time favourite albums of life. I love every song and it brings back great memories of being in high school and cheerleading and driving around with my friends on our way to Forever 21 to get our shop on. (Some things never change.) Sometimes I’ll do a Throwback Thursday and put on this album to dance around and reminisce. Britney was my favourite when I was growing up and she still is today. Love her.

1989 by Taylor Swift is not only a masterpiece but one of my favourite albums of all time. I am obsessed with every song and spent the latter part of 2014 solely listening to it every single day, and all day. Her lyrics are perfection, and she truly captures what I am feeling and thinking. Above all, her lyrics are the ones I identify with most. This album was my favourite one of 2014 and it made me fall in love with Taylor Swift even more than I already am. Obsessed.

Here’s to a week ahead filled with blogging and Lana Del Rey.