My Favorite Female Singers

Florence Welch
Joss Stone
Adele
Beth Ditto
Karen O
Laura Marling
Alison Mosshart
Ellie Goulding
Lacey Mosley

Taylor Momsen

Fiona Apple

Lykke Li

Norah Jones

Julia Stone

Gin Wigmore

I love music, I'm addicted to it. I need it several times a day sometimes all day and usualy in the form of a once gilted & now inspired female singer. These ladies are my favorite singers and if you don't know who some of them are then you don't know what your missing!

You've Got The Love - I've Had The Love

Florence & The Machine has been my favorite band ever since I heard the track Dog Days Are Over on an episode of Skins a few years ago. Their songs still make their way onto my mix Cd's and playlist even after I've heard them thousands of times. The real magic in the machine comes from the heavenly hellish lyrics that make for some amazing poetry. Florence's voice is harsh and violent but mixed with the lyrics and music the songs become smooth and pleasantly tormented. The #1 album I most look forward to is their sophomore album that I've been waiting on for what seems like forever.
What I can't help being frustrated about though is their most recent adventures with tacky pop culture events. The MTV awards was shameful enough but Dancing w/the Stars? Really??? It's like your favorite book that no one you know has read that suddenly gets made into a movie and now everyone is carrying around a copy. It's the green eyed monster meets the elephant in the room. It's not so much that their fans are growing and more people are being swallowed up by their brilliant music, it's that something so special and unique is mixing with generic, flavor of the month trends. It's just not right! I want the band to get all the credit it deserves I just like them standing alone in the sparkling shadows then bundled with everyone else. The one pop culture cross over they did that I LOVED was the song Heavy In Your Arms they did for the Twilight movie Eclipse, because not only did it get them to release new material but the song was amazing and stayed true to their aesthetic. The possible vibe of their next album scares me because I'm so hopelessly attached to Lungs. As devoted and hopefully as I try to be that their creativity and uniqueness will pull through whatever waves of fame and pop culture influence that has come their way, for the new album. I still see Lungs as being the rare untainted voice that transcends love and death and is simply unique in it's sound and energy that will be hard to match let alone surpass!!! I eagerly wait for more Florence & The Machine music!

Falling

Florence and the Machine - Falling

I've fallen out of favor and I've fallen from grace
Fallen out of trees and I've fallen on my face
Fallen out of taxis, out of windows too
Fell in your opinion when I fell in love with you

Sometimes I wish for falling, wish for the release
Wish for falling through the air to give me some relief
Because falling's not the problem, when I'm falling I'm at peace
It's only when I hit the ground it causes all the grief
This is a song for a scribbled-down name
And my love keeps writing again and again
This is a song for a scribbled-down name
And my love keeps writing again and again and again and again

I dance with myself, I drunk myself down
Found people to love, left people to drown
I'm not scared to jump, I'm not scared to fall
If there was nowhere to land I wouldn't be scared at all

Sometimes I wish for falling, wish for the release
Wish for falling through the air to give me some relief
Because falling's not the problem, when I'm falling I'm at peace
It's only when I hit the ground it causes all the grief!

I mention this band all the time and as you can see it's because they offer more than music, more than poetry... they offer chaos and peace ;)

Her Words Are Blinding

I can not recomend her music enough. Every once and awhile an artist comes along that moves me beyond words and tears. I've never been as inspired by an artist as I am by the music of Florence and the Machine. Her voice is that of a tortured angel and her lyrics are disarming and heartbreaking. I almost can't bare the beauty of her music and I hope those than read this post will take the time to listen to the music provided in the youtube clip, it is but a taste of her magic!

Dog Days Are Over

Happiness, it hurt like a train on a track

Coming towards her, stuck still no turning back

She hid around corners and she hid under beds

She killed it with kisses and from it she fled

With every bubble she sank with a drink

And washed it away down the kitchen sink

The dog days are over

The dog days are done

The horses are coming so you better run

Run fast for your mother run fast for your father

Run for your children and your sisters and brothers

Leave all your love and your loving behind you

Can't carry it with you if you want to survive

The dog days are over

The dog days are done

Can't you hear the horses

Cuz here they come

And I never wanted anything from you

Except everything you had

And what was left after that too. oh.

Happiness it hurt like a bullet in the mind

Stuck them up drainpipes

By someone who should know better than that

The dog days are over

The dog days are gone

Can you hear the horses

Cuz here they come

Run fast for your mother and fast for your father

Run for your children for your sisters and brothers

Leave all your love and your loving behind you

Can't carry it with you if you want to survive

The dog days are over

The dog days are gone

Can you hear the horses because here they come

The dog days are over

The dog days are gone

Can you hear the horses because here they come

By the lovely Florence and the Machine

My power just came back on about an hour ago, it went out at 2am and the heat and violent thunder and lightning kept me from any kind of beauty sleep. An as soon as the power came back on I realized I was too restless to curl up in bed with my cool operator. Leave it to me to blog late at night and early in the morning but never in the afternoon! I'm all set up on facebook now, I've had a myspace since freshman year of high school and since I just graduated I figured it was time to step my game up. So by now you know I'm obsessed with a little E4 show called Skins and I mentioned before all the great tunes that get played on the show, well Florence and the Machine played during season 3 and I fell head over heals so to speak in love with her! Dog Days Are Over is my favourite song and the lyrics are lovely which is why I've included them in this post. I also LOVE the song Girl with one Eye! So check out her CD people!!!