If My Life Were An Album...

Okay so music is one thing I can't live without, I am obsessed, it's like a drug. I live by the saying "If the music is too loud, you're too old." because it's true.

I thought it would be interesting to do a "playlist" of my life, but I've done a lot in my fourteen years, and listened to a lot of music. So this is going to be one long playlist!
So here it is, if my life were an album, this would be it.

"Unfinished letters, unsent messages"

The album of my life so far.

So I guess the best place to start is my birth, now my song selection for this is a little weird, you can thank my brilliant auntie for that! Obviously I don't remember being born, but the song "Laserlight" by Jessie J reminds my auntie of the day I was born. Once I was born my mum was recovering so my auntie was in a room with me on my own, and I opened my big brown eyes and stared up into hers. So the lyrics

 "In the blink of an eye, 

I was falling from the sky, 

in the blur, 

you took my breath away, 

and my heart starts beating, 

and my lungs start breathing,

 and the voice in my head starts screaming, 

I'm alive!" 

Remind her of the first few minutes of my life.

2. My second track is for London. As a very young girl I lived in East London, it was only for a very short time, but I still claim to be a Londoner, hold on to your roots I say (;

I love London, it's such a diverse city and I plan to live there again some time in my life.

So my second track is Londoner by Chip.

I enjoy dancing around the house singing the chorus at the top of my lungs, annoying everyone around me!

3. So after being born in Canterbury, then moving to London, my parents ditched the rough city lifestyle and moved to North Berwick in Scotland. I have quite a few memories of living here, walking down by the beach, starting at two nurseries "The Honey Pot" and "Busy Bees", (What is it with people giving nurseries and child care facilities bee related names?) spending time with my friend Louise, or as I called her "Weez" and countless trips to the "Birdy Centre" I honestly don't know that places real name, it was always the birdy centre to me!

So because I clearly have to go for a beach themed song for my third track, I'm not going to, because I don't like being obvious!
 I have chosen Only Love by Ben Howard because this is such a relaxing song!

4 & 5. After living in North Berwick we moved to a small town, it was here that I enjoyed my last year of nursery and my first two years of Primary School. I made some brilliant friends and remember playing imaginary games like "The magical far away tree" with my best friend Amy and "The spaghetti monster"  with Amy and our friend Aaron. Me and Amy were inseparable, we did everything together, from saving the world as super heroes to swimming lessons, from swapping toys to hiding from the witch next door! We prided ourselves in our ability of find things, looking back on it it was all junk, but when we were little it was so exciting to find a mini teddy or a jelly car air fresh or even just sweets. Once whilst waiting for our swimming lesson we found two pounds in the crack of a rock. I loved Amy and it feels so weird to be writing this and not knowing what's going on in her life, we went to different schools after primary two, we promised to keep in touch but it didn't happen. It's sad really, we were going to be each others maids of honour at our weddings, but friendships sometimes don't last. I enjoyed my time with Amy, and songs four and five are based on my time with her.

Song four is the YMCA, I remember singing super loud to this with her, not caring what anyone thought! And song five is *major cringe* The Cheeky Song by The Cheeky Girls, we were young and didn't understand that the song was pretty inappropriate to be singing at the top of our lungs where ever we went!

6. After primary two I moved to another small town and joined a new primary school, I started in the Christmas term and soon made friends, so my sixth song will have to be we wish you a merry Christmas!

 

7. My seventh song is Cotton Eyed Joe, in primary one of the highlights of my year was always sports day! I have never been a sporty girl, but primary sports day was always fun, with the sack race, the egg and spoon and so many more funny races! The only race I have ever won is the three legged race, me and my friend Alice from Velvet Nature were pros at that race! We won two years in a row!

But the best part of sports day was the games afterwards! One of my most fond memories is definitely dancing like a mad thing to cotton eyed joe dripping wet after a water fight!

8, 9 & 10. Now I'm not going to lie, the rest of primary flew by so quickly and I don't remember much, up until primary seven. I had a great time in primary seven and my best memories are of our "Rock Band" topic, where we split up into groups and formed pretend rock bands, we had to do everything from designing albums to planning world tours! It was brilliant! My band was called FlashBack, and that was when my slight emo/scene obsession developed. So my songs for primary seven are The Captain by Biffy Clyro, Orange Crush by R.E.M and That's What You Get by Paramore.

11. My eleventh track is about my first year in secondary. I hated it. Absolutely hated it. Enough said. So my eleventh track it Another Brick In The Wall by Pink Floyd.

12. My twelfth song stands for my second year in secondary school. I hated this year as well. I got bullied because I cut my hair super short, people said I was a lesbian. I got called so many names "Dyke" "Faggot" "Lesbo" "Boy" "Justin Beiber" "Homo" "Dylan" and probably more, I've tried to block it all out! I couldn't walk into class without being ridiculed, I got water, spit, Lucozade and god knows what else tipped on my head on the bus ride home. I hated it so much.

But it made me stronger, so my twelfth song is almost taking the mickey out of myself, I've chosen Dude Looks Like A Lady by Aerosmith. Of course I wasn't a boy who looked like a girl, but I was a girl who supposedly looked like a boy.

13. My thirteenth track is represents how I felt a little while ago, I don't really want to go into detail, but I have chosen Nobody's Home by Avril Lavigne. 

14 & 15 My fourteen and fifteenth and final tracks are for my cousin Hugo, he is not only my cousin but my best friend, we have had so much fun as children! We had a club "The Love And Hate Club", learnt how to speak "Eggy", built countless dens and rafts and machines, went on camping trips to the "secret beach", lit the biggest craziest fires, make fire torches, had fun, got in trouble and generally had great fun!

Track fourteen is Too close by Alex Clare, because this was our clubs "war chant", cute. And track fifteen is Smoke On The Water by Deep Purple because we loved that song from a very young age and used to beg our dads to play it "As loud as the car radio can and open all the windows so everyone can hear!" We were brilliant fun :P

 

So here it is, the album of my life so far:
1. Laserlight by Jessie J 

2. Londoner by Chip

3. Only Love by Ben Howard

4. The YMCA

5. The Cheeky Song by The Cheeky Girls

6. We Wish You A Merry Christmas

7. Cotton Eyed Joe

8. The Captain by Biffy Clyro

9. Orange Crush by R.E.M

10. That's What You Get by Paramore.

11. Another Brick In The Wall by Pink Floyd.

12. Dude Looks Like A Lady by Aerosmith

13. Nobody's Home by Avril Lavigne

14. Too Close by Alex Clare

15. Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple