New Christmas Music!

Hey everyone!

Can you believe that there is only 6 days until Christmas!? I am so excited to be going home on Sunday for the last two weeks of my winter break! So far my break has consisted of me eating pizza, watching Netflix, sleeping, and watching more Netflix. I know, I lead an interesting life. However boring my Christmas break seems to be, I'm sure that yours is much more exciting!

So while I was on the great YouTube this week I found the best video possible for this week. It is from one of my favourite YouTubers, Paint! He does such amazing A ccappella video mash work and I have watched his videos since his Harry Potter in 99 Seconds video came out. He is super talented and for my video this week I am featuring his new Christmas song.

I really like and his sense of humour may not be to everyones liking but I really hope you check it out! I have probably watched/ listened to this multiple times a day since it has come out, it is that good!

I hope that you all have a fantastic beak and if you aren't celebrating Christmas bare with me another week, my regular posts will be starting up once Christmas is over! 

Take care! xxx

Top 5 Christmas Songs!

Hey everyone!

Can you believe that there is only 10 days until Christmas!? December is going by so fast and I have barely started my Christmas shopping. I know, not good. However I still have enough days to get it all done, so it's fine. I also finished finals last week which I am super happy about. I know that other universities still have exams going on this week, but mine usually tends to end earlier for some reason. So if you are still writing finals, good luck and I'm sure all of you will do great! 

However if you are not quite as excited for Christmas as I am, get ready to be! I always find that listening to Christmas music gets me into the festive spirit. So I have made a list of my top 5 Christmas songs  that get me into the Christmas spirit. Listen to them, I have a whole playlist on my Spotify look up under Christmas Jams under my user emmylalonde. 

Top 5 Christmas Songs!

1. Christmas Time is Here - Vince Guaraldi Trio

2. I'll bBe Home For Christmas - Michael Bublé

3. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Christina Aguilera

4. Merry Christmas, Kiss My Ass - All Time Low

5. Mary, Did You Know - Pentatonix

Let me know if any of these songs are apart of your favourite Christmas songs, if they aren't let me know what yours are! I will be filming a five facts about me video and it will be going up by this Sunday so be ready for that!

Take care! xxx

I'm Back!!

Hey everyone!

Been awhile hasn't it? Those that regularly read my blog (are there regulars?) I am super sorry that I haven't posted in a very long time but for those that are in university or any secondary education you can  probably understand why. I was all of a sudden under a pile of midterms, assignments, and "midterms" that were at basically the end of first term. Right now is the first week of my universities exam period so that's why I am finally able to write a blog post. My exams aren't until next week so I am studying and finishing up my last assignment so I basically have starting this week until the beginning of January off from school, minus my two exam days. WHOO!

So I am basically finished my first semester of my second year at university and all I have to say is wow! It has gone by so fast and I can't believe that I am already halfway done this year. I honestly don't know how the semesters go by so fast but they have all seemed to zoom by. With this semester over I do have quite a lot of exciting news that I hope you guys will be happy with. 

By the middle of December I will no longer be working, therefore I will have a lot more time to do Internet things. the "things" include my usual schedule of blog posts, so three times a week if you are new to my blog. I usually post on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, but that may change slightly because my next semester schedule is a bit hectic on Monday's and Wednesday's, but I will still have my 3 posts they may just happen on different days. AND I will be making regular videos!  I know I have said that in the past but since I won't be working through my next semester I will have time to make and edit videos! My first official video will be up mid-December and I will probably vlog bits and pieces of by break and put it in one big video. I am super excited to be making videos and if you have any ideas of videos please let me know on here or you can email me!

I have also just made a Spotify account for those who are big music people. My account is emmylalonde so my blog name so feel free to follow me or if you think I need to be listening to better music please leave songs or artists because I love fining new music to listen to. Or if you think their are people I should be following on Spotify leave them below :)

Take care! xxx 

New Music!

Hey everyone!

So a few days ago I got an email from a girl named Rachel to check out a an artist that she though I would like. Now you probably don't know this about me but growing up I was in my school choir in both my elementary school and in high school. So when I listen to artists that are very vocal focused ( not pop music) I tend to be kind of critical. Well I am so happy that Rachel shared the amazing talents of Hayley Solano with me because she is a very talented artist but I probably wouldn't have discovered her if it wasn't for the email I received. 

I like that she is able to tell stories through her music and get the listener to take the journey with her. She has such a beautiful and calming voice that helps bring the listener into the stories that she is telling through her musical ability. Below I have her latest original song If I Was There and I am not kidding you when I saw that this has just been stuck in my head and I've been playing it constantly. The story behind the song is great and I'm a romantic and London is somewhere that I have considered moving to so I can picture this as a possible romance that I could have. I am the kind of person that likes to put myself in as the main character of the story and with this song I was able to do that. 

If you like music that has meaning behind it, or songs that tell a story give this a listen because Hayley Solano is a fantastic artist. She does have original songs like the one I posted but she does also do covers as well from artists like Sam Smith and Katy Perry. She is super talented and if you have a minute to spare give If I Was There a little listen! :)

Take care! xxx 

TRXYE!!!

Hey everyone!

So for this weeks video I have decided to show, for those that have not already seen/ heard, the amazingness of Happy Little Pill. This is a song off of Troye Sivan's EP TRXY, who is a fantastic YouTuber, Actor, and Musician. He announced that he was coming out with an EP at this years VidCon, and though I didn't attend VidCon I found out from Twitter that we could now pre-order it. Well of course I pre-ordered it, and the first 2000 to pre-order would be getting a signed copy of his album, which obviously would be impossible, right? 

It has now been about a month since I've pre-ordered and the release date for the EP was the 15 of August. The only song that had been released off the EP was Happy Little Pill which is an amazing song! On the 12 of August a music video for Happy Little Pill was released and it was great. It was definitely a video that had a depth to it and was very visually appealing, and made sense in the aspect that it actually narrated the lyrics.  

It is now the 16 of August and I am beyond words. So yesterday morning I got an email saying this:

I literally read the first line probably about 7 times before I realized what it said. "a signed version of the EP!" Honestly I didn't believe it. I thought it was sent to the wrong person, ir it was just a generic message sent to everyone who pre-ordered and I don't even know, accidentally put in the word signed. I was at work when I got a message from my roommate that a package arrived for me at our house. I knew instantly what it was and I couldn't wait until I got off work. So as soon as I arrived home I went into my room and opened the package. The email had no mistake. I actually got one of the 2000 signed copies  of TRXYE. I sat starring at the signature for about 10 minutes before I could even believe what my eyes were telling me. I still don't even have the words to describe how lucky I feel to have got this.

SEE!!!!! :D

It has now been two days since I got TRXYE and I have listened to this on repeat. I've probably listed to this whole album about 15 times now... actually probably more than that. It is honestly so good. I love every single song off of this EP, it is so raw and emotional and catchy and just fantastic. My favourite song off of TRXYE is definitely Gasoline, it's such an emotionally touching song, and the lyrics are brilliant. If you have not already bought this EP DO IT!! You will love each and every song, I can almost guarantee it. 

The video is here for you so you can see how well they did in creating it, but for you to sample what your getting on the EP.

Take care! xxx