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Me and Music Tag

Hello, friends!

I’ve been a little tired lately and down on inspiration, so here’s a little tag for your entertainment. I hope you enjoy it, and since I’m not tagging anyone, you’re absolutely free to do it 🙂

 

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Rules:

  1. Link back to original (Sophie @ Me and Ink) so she can see your answers and listen to the tunes
  2. For every prompt you choose to do, name 1-5 songs (you can use Sophie’s graphics)
  3. Have fun and play your music LOUD

 

1

 

Home to You — Sigrid // “Would it be okay if I came home to you?”

Everything Stays — Rebecca Sugar // “Everything stays / But it still changes”

Reverie — Mia Buckley // “I have seen the beauty in the world / And there is so much we can’t see.”

Anyone who knows me knows that I am uncomfortable with the idea of home. I don’t enjoy discussing “where I’m from” (my mom? my passport country? where I live?), my “favorite country to live in”, or where I’m going next. That’s probably why my definition of home is a little vague.

 

2

 

Kids Again — Artist vs. Poet // “But still we laugh, we cry, we fall, we get high”

The thing about “Kids Again” is that you can interpret it to be about platonic love and/or romantic love. And that’s amazing! I love friendships 🙂

Love Like You — Rebecca Sugar // “I could do about anything / I could even learn how to love like you”

No Matter Where You Are — Us the Duo // “We can be the generation / Who learns how to love”

 

3

 

Immortals — Fall Out Boy // “We could be immortals, immortals / Just not for long, for long”

Big Hero 6 is one of my favorite movies, and in my head the film and this song are linked together.

Yellow Flicker Beat — Lorde // “They used to shout my name, now they whisper it”

Lorde writes amazing lyrics and this one is no exception.

Deck the Halls (of Northville High) — Black Friday // “Pumpkin spice for days / Fill those cookie trays up”

I can’t exactly take this song seriously, but it is such a bop and it sounds like it belongs in an actual Christmas movie.

 

4

 

This one was hard, but I finally picked out five songs that I really like:

Don’t Give Up On Me — Andy Grammer, Five Feet Apart (never seen the movie nor read the book, but the soundtrack is pretty good) // “Even when nobody else believes / I’m not goin’ down that easily”

Epic III — Hadestown // “What has become of the heart of that man / Now that he has everything?”

Me and the Sky — Come From Away // “When suddenly someone on air to air traffic says / “At 8:46 there’s been a terrorist action” / And the one thing I loved more than anything was used as the bomb”

Black Friday — Black Friday // “I don’t want your half-baked sympathy / When did it save those in need?”

What Baking Can Do — Waitress // “Sugar, butter, flour / Don’t let me down”

 

5

 

Orpheus — Sara Bareilles // “Don’t stop trying to find me here amidst the chaos”

Lemon Boy — Cavetown // “Like Snufkin and Little My, we’ll get around wherever”

Grow As We Go — Ben Platt // “We’ll take it slow / And grow as we go”

Sous le ciel de Paris — Zaz // “Pour se faire pardonner / Il offre un arc-en-ciel”

Better Now — Oh Wonder // “And they’ve lifted the dark clouds”

 

6

 

See You Again — Wiz Khalifa (feat. Charlie Puth) // “We’ve come a long way from where we began”

This one reminds me of my middle school years when I was very young and naive and wasn’t into music. I’d hear this song at malls and with my friends, so it kinda has that nostalgic feel.

Royals — Lorde // “That kind of lux just ain’t for us / We crave a different kind of buzz”

The first time I heard “Royals” was in music class in the fourth grade. It’s stuck with me since, and it’s one of my favorite songs by Lorde.

Cups (When I’m Gone) — Anna Kendrick // “I’ve got my ticket for the long way ’round / The one with the prettiest of views”

This one is kind of self-explanatory. Anyone remember doing the cups song a couple years back for talent shows and whatnot?

 

7

 

Get Up — Shinedown // “Hard to move mountains when you’re paralyzed / But you gotta try” 

Heroes — Zayde Wolf // “We are heroes / Heroes in the darkest times”

 

8

 

Close to You — Carpenters (growing up, my dad would sing this a lot so it’s quite dear to me) // “So they sprinkled moondust in your hair of gold and starlight in your eyes of blue”

Everybody Wants to Rule the World — Tears For Fears // “All for freedom and for pleasure / Nothing ever lasts forever”

 

9

 

ANYTHING FROM COME FROM AWAY. It’s an amazing underrated musical that gives me hope in humanity and it’s the only musical to almost make me cry.

I recommend listening to the whole musical, but here are some suggestions besides Me and the Sky:

Welcome to the Rock // “Welcome to the land where we lost our loved ones / And we said: / We will still go on!”

Blankets and Bedding // “In the winter / From the water / If a stranger ends up sent by fate”

Prayer // “Where there is darkness, only light”

 

10

 

I recently got into Ordinary Days and it’s so bouncy and light and I really enjoy it.

Suggestions:

One By One By One // “But then he got arrested cause I guess it is illegal and he hired me to watch his cat / While he’s in jail”

Don’t Wanna Be Here // “I opened a map and said, “Show me my future / ‘Cause it isn’t where I am.””

Fine // “We’ll be fine / Fine / Fine / And then it starts to rain”

Rooftop Duet/Falling // “We look up into the sky / At the pages that keep falling”

 

11

 

What About Us — P!nk // “What about all the broken happy ever afters?”

King and Lionheart — Of Monsters and Men // “And in the sea that’s painted black / Creatures lurk below the deck / But you’re a king and I’m a lion-heart”

Paper Crown — Alec Benjamin // “She can never look back / The story of a queen whose castle has fallen to the sea”

 

12

 

I had to look up what songs were in the charts for this year in order to answer this, oof.

Memories — Maroon 5 // “Toast to the ones here today / Toast to the ones that we lost on the way”

Someone You Loved — Lewis Capaldi (actually the only Lewis Capaldi song I know) // “For now the day bleeds / Into nightfall”

 

13

 

Mr Blue Sky — Electric Light Orchestra // “Hey you with the pretty face / Welcome to the human race”

This reminds me of tuktuk rides with my friends back from youth group, accompanied with screeching and kazoo playing. Good times :’)

Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue — Crystal Gayle // “Tell me no secrets, tell me some lies”

My dad plays music in the car whenever I go on road trips with my family, and I like to listen to it as I read a book. This is one of the songs that throws me back to those cozy car rides.

Stand By You — Rachel Platten // “And hey, if your wings are broken / Please take mine so yours can open too”

This song reminds me of the first book I ever alpha read, and it was a fantastic opportunity and experience. Shoutout to the absolutely epic Kiki Stanton here, she’s an amazing writer and Escaping the Noose was one of the best books I’d read that year.

 

14

 

The Phantom of the Opera — The Phantom of the Opera (cries in “I’m not a soprano”) // “The Phantom of the Opera is here, inside my mind”

Non-Stop — Hamilton (can I sing multiple parts simultaneously? Challenge accepted) // “How do you write like you’re running out of time?”

The Villain I Appear to Be — Connor Spiotto (actually amazing and very underrated, you should check it out) // “Won’t stop till I win the race / Although I may have crossed the line”

 

15

 

The whole Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse soundtrack

It’s Over Now — Darren Criss, Little White Lies // “I’ve tried to be someone / But I don’t know how”

 

16

 

Recently — Liana Flores

It’s technically an EP, but it’s soft and delightful and I love it.

 

17

 

How It Goes — Oh Wonder (the color grading is beautiful and the one-take style is captivating)

 

Mine Right Now — Sigrid (the whole concept of the director having to play Sigrid and having a fire breathing dragon at the end for no reason is hilarious)

 

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That’s all for now!

If you’re reading this, thank you for sticking around on this lengthy post. I hope you enjoyed my music recommendations, and I definitely suggest going over to Sophie’s blog and checking out what she likes.

Have you listened to Come From Away? Can you sing like Christine from The Phantom of the Opera? What were your thoughts on my music choices? Let me know in the comments below!

Make your mark,

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