The latest updates from me are: my new interest in Country music and a change in my hair style. I can’t remember where I saw it, but something reminded me of a singer I used to listen to in a band called Hey Monday. Pete Wentz posted about Cassadee Pope winning on The Voice a few years back too. Anyway, she has now got a solo career in Country music and basically all of her songs are great.

This led me on to listen to other country singers, obviously one of my favourite music artists ever is Taylor Swift whose roots are in country music so I guess it was natural for me to research into the genre more. The other musicians I really like are Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert. Some of their songs are really country sounding, but mostly they’re slightly more acoustic than pop music.

Now my life is going really well, I’m happy and in love; I have started to get interested in more easy listening music whereby the lyrics are more relatable. I used to like hip hop and cool pop with rude and horrible lyrics; they don’t appeal so much to me anymore and I’m seriously considering chucking out a couple of Chris Brown CDs plus Rihanna and perhaps one or two others. I don’t want to sound stuck up in any way though.

I’d like the genre a lot more if they chose to rap or sing about different and nicer subjects. I know some rappers come from a rough and edgy lifestyle/reality but that’s not the world that I live in and hope to never live in a world like that. I do sympathise with them and it does highlight some of the issues here on earth but I think it is now overused and over told. That could equally be said about love songs for just about every genre but I think everyone experiences those things and people will always want to sing about love.

I guess I can relate to female singers more overall. I still like Christina Aguilera’s album Stripped and Back to Basics; Avril Lavigne, and Paramore. Although two artists with male lyricists are in my all time favourites: Fall Out Boy and Michael Jackson.

Another update is that over Spring I watched Ballykissangel. I may write a separate post about the show. The end of season three left me heartbroken, I won’t say much more than that because of spoilers. I loved the first three seasons, but from there the show was gradually worse in my opinion.

I think that’s enough blogging for one night.

Amy