Music for the kiddies

Every month now I put up a handful of song recommendations on the English board in the English classroom at my work.  Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, One Direction, Carly Rae Jepson, and a few others are quite popular among my middle schoolers, but I really want to try to expose them to more music than just that.  I also want to try Kpop with them, ha ha, but that's probably an already hard-to-justify endeavor.

Anyways, I spend some of my down time at work browsing the UK's and US's top 40's charts and other music sites to keep up with what's popular and screen options for my recommendations.  There's a lot of music that becomes popular with the kiddies, but omg, some of that music is soooo inappropro for young teeny boppers.

November 2015 Playlist

It's almost winterrrrrr.  Here are my November jams.

Ghibli of Life Best
This is a CD I picked up on sale last year from my local Tsutaya, which is like your Barnes and Noble/Game Stop/Best Buy/used bookstore/used media store.  They sell CDs, video games, MANGA (comic books), regular books, CARDS (let's du-du-du-du-dudududu DUEL!), etc. new and used.  Anyways, so this CD is really awesome remixed soundtrack music from various Ghibli and Miyazaki films (and also some rap?  near the very end of the CD there are a few tracks with English rap on them interestingly).  It's nice chill music to work to or daydream to or use as BGM.

June 2015 Playlist

I just ranted a bunch about how awesome I think Pentatonix is and stuff, but I do listen to other music, lol. So here's this past month's playlist of my current favorites.

If you like cartoon and video game music that's pretty upbeat, the following three is what I've been listening to and recommend.

Stronger than you
This song might just be okay out of context, but when I heard it in one of the final season episodes of Steven Universe, I was so captivated by the beat and Estelle's voice and how the song fit so perfectly in the scene that I couldn't stop jamming to it.

Que Sera Sera

A Crimson Rose and a Gin Tonic

Katamari music is just classic game soundtrack music to me. It's so relaxing and fun to listen to while showering or doing chores at home. It brightens up my day.

Pentatonix

Pentatonix is an a capella group made of five members, and they've basically gone from music TV show winners to Grammy winning world touring billboard topping musical success. They cover popular music and also produce original music, and it's all a capella (well, mostly because sometimes the one guy plays his cello or they invite other artists like violinist Lindsey Stirling to collaborate in their beautiful music-making). So anyways, like I was saying, they make bumping amazing songs just using their voices. They sound like a complete band or something, but it really is just their voices harmonizing together and making very solid and well-put together sounding music. There are definitely about to be some YouTube links below.

2014 Walking Playlist

Happy New Year, my lovelies!!

I hope everyone had a good holiday season.  I know I did.  I stayed home at my apartment for most of it staying up late and sleeping in late.  Ah, so good!  And then I started playing my first Zelda game: The Wind Waker.  Oh my god, I love this game!!  I played it for hours and hours starting like January 1st or 2nd.  I would go to bed at like 4 am because I was so into it and then get up the next day, shower and eat, and then keep playing until 4 am again.  My boyfriend spent a lot of the break with me, and he just joined me in gaming.  He played on his laptop, and I played the Wii U, and we both sat under the kotatsu all day and night.  Ahhh, so nice.



Anyways, so I'm not sure if I've mentioned it before, but sometimes I walk home from school.  It's about a 50 minute walk for me, and I'm sure if I told anyone I work with, they would think I'm crazy, lol.  They all thought I was crazy for wanting to bike to and from work because it would take like 30 minutes, and everyone kept telling me to just take the bus.  However, I am really lazy and sometimes a cheapo.  I don't exercise at all on a regular basis, so I figured if I walked home from school and just took the bus in the mornings (because I'm so brain-dead in the mornings after just waking up), I would force myself to exercise more regularly and then also save half of what would be my monthly transportation costs.  Also, biking wasn't working for me.  I would get to work all sweaty and have to change and get up like much earlier just to account for that clothes-changing time and re-do my hair and stuff....so it was not worth the effort in my opinion.

So yeah!  I actually like walking because it's more relaxed and relaxing, ha ha.  I can walk as leisurely or fast-paced as I want, I get to see my town, and I get to listen to music and just think while I walk.  This is finally where I get to the point of this post.  I think I started walking in October or November, and since then I have been listening to a lot of the same music on these walks, and I wanted to share!  Below is a sampling of what I typically listen to.  If you've watched my more recent YouTube videos, then you might see a familiar name, hee hee.

(I've provided links in case you're interested in listening to it yourself.)

Kill the DJ - FEMM

Astroboy feat. Honey-B & W-Trouble - FEMM

Wannabe - FEMM

Burn My Dread - Meguro Masashi (Persona 3 Soundtrack)

P3_Heaven's Remix - Meguro Masashi (Persona 3 Soundtrack)

四季の歌 (Shiki no Uta) - MINMI

COME BACK HOME - 2NE1

너 아님 안돼 (GOTTA BE YOU) - 2NE1