"You" by dodie - a review

 

 

Hello everyone! Long time no write amirite? A lot have changed from the last time I wrote last (which was almost a year ago, that's crazy!) so I need to do a big update post talking about life and stuff. First and foremost, I got a new dslr camera! Tbh, that's mostly the reason I decided to relaunch this blog. (I also want to change the look of this blog, check my twitter -which is just @mynicolness- for updates!).

 

So today - as in the 11th of August 2017 - dodie (with a lowercase d!!) released her new EP called "You"! I decided that for today's blog post I would do a review of all the songs in the EP. Listened to the EP as soon as it came out and I had some fun with some yellow stuff to make this post! Let's just get into it!

 

Firstly, the cover looks so b-e-a-u-tiful and so dodie-like, I LOVE it.

When this first came out, it automatically became my lockscreen. It is so so so pretty.

 

 

So after that being said, let's get into the songs!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In The Middle

 

Dear people, I present to you the bop of the year. Honestly I  a b s o l u t e l y  love this song. From the moment I listened to it when I stumbled upon dodie singing it live, I thought In The Middle was so catchy. I feel like that's different from dodie's style and I  l o v e  it. I tried finding the meaning of the song when I listened to it the first time (as all of dodie's songs have a different meaning) and I found a few but a threesome was definitely not one of them. The beat is so catchy, it makes you want to get up and dance. (Also, dodie performing In The Middle in SITC with the drums was so good omg)

favourite lyric: "it could be weird but I think I'm into it, you know I'm one for the overly passionate"

 

 

6/10

So 6/10 is a song about not feeling enough. I relate to a lot of dodie's songs, and this is one of them. The piano, the violin. the cello and dodie's voice all sound so beautiful together. All the voices at the end also sound amazing all together, it's so cool that dodie decided to include her audience in a song in her EP. Overall, an amazing, emotional song. (Please appreciate the taxi I drew and the picture, it's so hard drawing in Photoshop without a drawing pad)

favourite lyric: "is there pity for the plain girl?"

Instrumental

 

 

Instrumental just sound so.. magical? It totally sounds like musical music, so can just user @ doddleoddle compose music for some musicals please? Thanks.

You

The Parisian styled song and the song that named the EP. I said this so many times but this just sounds so beautiful. So this is apparently about falling in love with someone you didn't think that you could fall in love. This is again one of her songs that I really relate to. The vocals in this are so amazing and the kind of vintage-y sound of it adds this little something to the song.

favourite lyric: "whatever it was it was wonderful, but non-functional, oOoOOOOooOh, I really hope I don't love you.

Secret For The Mad

 

So for Secret For The Mad I scared that, because it is a studio version, they would add more things to it and it would ruin the simplicity of the song. I am so glad that they didn't change it, and I feel that manager Josh kind of didn't want to ruin the simplicity either, as he has said that it is one of his favourite songs because it's that one note and dodie's vocals. That's one of the reasons I absolutely love this because of that. The meaning of the song is also another reason why I love this. It is how things will get better, even if you don't think they will. A song I always listen to when I need this reminder. 

 

favourite lyric: "there will be a day when you can say you're okay and mean it"

 

Would You Be So Kind

The EP starts with a bop and end with a bop. WYBSK has been my favourite song ever since I listened to it. Again, I relate to the meaning of the song so much, and I used to put it on repeat during a specific time of my life (aYE I should do a storytime about that). Personally speaking, I like the live version more than the original one and the studio version and expected to listen to that when the EP came out. The live version is really similar to the one on the EP, but it doesn't have the part before the end of the song with the guitar solo, which is what I was looking most forward to. Besides that, WYBSK is still one of my faves on the EP, and generally one of my favourite dodie songs.

 

favourite lyric: wowie I can't pick but probably "Let's write a story, be in my book" or "There's gotta be some butterflies somewhere, wanna share?"

 

 

General thoughts:

When the track list for the EP was released, I was so pumped as all of those songs are some of my favourites from dodie. The excitement was so worth it, as the songs were as good as I expected them to be, and even better. So proud of dodie, she just keeps getting better and better. It's totally worth listening.

Here are some links if you wanna listen to the EP!

Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/album/6xeFX3...

iTunes : http://apple.co/2tMBs4C

dance party (meaning of the songs) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtvnFfVC5M0

So that's it for this blog post! Really hope you enjoyed reading through my opinion of the song in dodie's new EP called "You". As I said at the start, I'm so excited to be doing more stuff on here! See you soon (hopefully)!

P.S. Make sure to check the song of the year (hint: it's from the EP)


(also I have a snapchat now if you want to add me, it's just mynicoleness, and also don't forget to check all my other social medias on the side of the page)






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Memories Of Summer 2016

Hello you beautiful people!

As I'm writing this, it's the 1st of September, but this blog post is probably not going up until next week, sorry!

Anyways, the fact that now it's September means that summer is over :( I'm also going back to school on the 12th this month and I can't even.

Since summer is over, I've decided to talk to you about all of the amazing memories that I created in the beautiful summer of 2016.

I have to start saying that this summer is definitely one of my most favourite summers ever.

The beginning of summer also meant the end of junior high for me. Senior year of junior high was the best year out of all the previous years. I bonded with my classmates more and I'm sad that I'll have to leave that behind.

But over all, this summer was full of fun things. To begin with, I started going out more, hanging out with my best friend, going for ice cream or a walk around town. Maybe this sounds boring, or not fun whatsoever, but honestly, I had so much fun with my best friend this year. Every single walk had something special and a little something from every day/night that I will never forget.

This year, I went to the Waterpark. I've been there before but this year was different and totally a highlight of the whole year.
I went to slides that I hadn't been on before, spent most of the day there and generally had fun.

My school's theatre club also had been preparing a theatrical play since the start of the school year, and they showed it around the end of June, so it's a summer memory right? I also got a bit emotional at the end because I'm going to miss everyone so much, since not everyone is going to the same senior high school.

Living on an island means that there are a lot of pretty beaches. I love taking pictures of the sunset while being at the beach, so I have so many of them (yeah I'm pretty basic).

If you've seen a blogpost that I uploaded a while I go, I went on a boat trip to Lindos. Click here if you want to see more pictures.
Again, that has to be another highlight of my year.

Another highlight of both this summer and the whole year in general is my trip to the Netherlands. It was just for a few days, but still I had so much fun. I love traveling and wouldn't say no to an opportunity to travel. You can click here if you want to know more about what we did on that trip.

I also met two internet friends. One of them is honestly one of the best internet friends you could ever meet. She's honestly so sweet and we've been talking for about a year now (maybe less).
I didn't really talk to the other one, I just bumped into her and she seemed familiar since she does Youtube videos. But I decided to walk up to her and say hi even if we didn't really speak.

Every summer and specifically in August, there is a fun fair. We went there at around 7 pm and stayed until 11 pm. We had kebabs, cotton candy and donut holes (they're not really donut holes but I don't know how to explain it in English).

Some small thing that I just wanted to mention are:

• I'm probably not the only one who started playing Pokemon Go right? But I didn't get as obsessed as some other people, but I still enjoyed it. 
• I'm going to say just one phrase for this one. Mid-Season finale of Pretty Little Liars. Nothing more. (Everyone is shook.)

That's pretty much it!

I have to say that I am so, so, so thankful of everyone that made summer 2016 so special and fun (in real life or online).

Here's to more happy 2016 memories to come!

Make sure to check all of my social media (links in the side) as well as the Song Of The Week and the Spotify Playlist!

Write to you soon! Byeeee! <3

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Trip to The Netherlands!

Hello you beautiful people! So I kept my promise and stuck to the weekly blog uploads. By the time you're reading this I'm back home but I spent a couple of days in the Netherlands! We went there to visit family and, of course, I had to take a bunch of pictures to write a blogpost about it.

I have to say I loooove traveling. I have been traveling from a young age and I've grown to love it now. And I have an weird obsession over airports. I don't know what it is but I love being in airports. I might do a different blog post discussing traveling and stuff.

Aaanyways, let's start with the blog! 

Day 1

We left for the airport around at 20:00. On our way there, I got the chance to take a picture of the sunset.

We had about an hour before our boarding time, so we got some water, walked around the duty free section, and then waited in our gate. 

We traveled with Corendon Airlines, I tried taking a picture of the plane, but it was dark and I couldn't find a good angle.

I didn't get the chance to take any pictures on board, because I had turned my phone off.

The flight was 3 and a half hour long. During the flight, I had an instant noodle cup and a sandwich. It was really late, but I couldn't really fall asleep. 

When we arrived in Schiphol, the airport in Amsterdam, it was already 1 am, so when we arrived at my uncle's house we went straight to bed.

Day 2

Day two was more like day one, since we didn't really do anything on the actual day one.

That day we went to the grocery store to get things for us to bring back home and also stuff for my little cousin's birthday celebration.

Then we went back at the house and stayed a bit. Afterwards we went to the town, and specifically to the mall. I didn't buy a lot of stuff, otherwise I would have done a haul.

Again, I didn't really take a lot of pictures there but here's a picture of a bunch of candies at a store.

We had lunch at McDonald's and then decided to go back to the house. 

When we got there, me and one of my cousins decided to play Minecraft and Little Big World on the Playstation.

After that, we decided that we should go to the Pokestop nearby. Yeah, I'm talking about PokemonGo. I also hatched a 2 km egg and it was a Ratata. (P.S. I did get annoyed).

On the way to the house, we walked through a beautiful street. We don't get these kind of neighbourhoods where I live, so I had to take pictures.

When we got back to the house, we had Chinese for dinner and ice cream for dessert.

After that nothing really happened. We just watched TV and then went to bed.

Day 3

It was my little cousin's birthday, and there were a lot of people visiting that day. Also, my grandma visited us. 

My little cousin loves Frozen, so her cake had to be Frozen themed.

I will just write the highlights of the day.

We had some sandwiches for lunch, more people came to visit, had some Dutch food for dinner and played FireBoy and WaterGirl before we went to bed. 

Also, there were some hot air balloons flying, and it was really nice-looking.

Day 4

Day 4 was our last day in The Netherlands. We left the house at 10:00. On our way to the airport, I got the chance to take a picture of a windmill, something that is pretty common in the Netherlands.

When we got to the airport, we went through security, and since we had a couple of hours left, we decided that we would have a look around the shops and then have a snack. Of course we had to do some airplane spotting.

 During the flight, I watched some Youtube videos that I had to catch up to. Also, as a typical person that loves traveling, I had to take an airplane window picture.

Here are over the Alps.

Then we got home.

That was it for my trip to The Netherlands! It was only for a few days but I had fun!

I enjoy writing these traveling blogposts, so I really hope I'm going on a trip again soon!

Write to you soon! Byee!

P.S. Don't forget to check all of my social medias (Links in the sidebar). Also, check the Song Of The Week, as well as the Spotify Playlist, link here. 

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Boat Trip to Lindos!

Hey everyone! Long time no see huh? Well not really "see" but you get the point. Sorry for not posting for a while but I didn't have access to a PC. But I'm back! I have a couple of posts planned, I really hope this works!

Anyways, today I decided to talk you through my little boat trip to Lindos, a village in Rhodes, Greece. 

I went to the same trip last year but I have to say that this year I enjoyed it a liiiiiitle bit more. I went with some of my really close friends both times.

Also I loved taking all of the pictures. The whole village is wonderful and the beaches there are as well!

As the title says, we went there by boat. I didn't really get the chance to take picture of the boat in general, so here's a picture of one of the sides! We left the city centre at about 8:00 am. I had to wake up at 6:00 but it was worth it.

We had a couple of stops -mostly at hotels- in the way, so more people could join. I really liked how this hotel looked, even though you can't really see.

After two and a half hours approximately, we finally arived! We had to walk from the harbour to the central place of the village, so we had a stop on the way to have a snack, even though the distance wasn't that far. This was the view from the place that we stopped at. I had to take a picture!

After our little break, we started wandering around, and eventually got hungry. We found a restaurant that was owned by a friend of ours and they kindly invited us in.

I decided to go for a burger with fries. (I tried to take a nice instagram-worthy picture, I don't think I've achieved my goal :3)

It was slowly time for us to go back to the port, but on the way we could see the the Acropolis, and we stopped (again) to take some pictures.

We had about half an hour left, so we thought that it would be nice to have a swim at the beach near the harbour. It wasn't anything special though, we just stayed for about ten minutes. The boat was going to have a stop anyways, so we decided that we would swim then.

We went on board, and eventually left Lindos. But as I said, we would stop later on to have another swim.

The water was lovely and I had an absolute blast. Here are some pictures I took before we left the stop.

 

We sat at the front of the boat and it was so beautiful. Unfortunately, I only got this picture. It was also kinda hard to take any other pictures there, since it was pretty windy and water started splashing us at one point. Also,  when I was standing, I was pretty unstable so I the pictures would be blurry.

We arrived back at the city centre (well not really the city centre, but the harbour there, you'll understand me if you've ever been in Rhodes).

I had such an amazing time that day, and I hope it will be as fun next year!

I really hope you enjoyed this post. As I said, I have a lot of ideas in my mind for the future and I hope I will actually stick to the schedule now. 

I hope to talk to you next week! Byee!

P.S. Remember to check all my social links and the song of the week on the side bar! Here's a link to a Spotify playlist with all the previous "Song Of The Week"s! 

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Tips on how to cheer up!

Hello everyone! How are you doing? Hope everything's okay :)
I AM OUT OF SCHOOL!!! High school here I come. Not 100% sure if I'm ready, but I guess we'll find out this September.

Anyways, I know that not every day is going to be all rainbows and smiley faces. So for this week's blog post, I decided to show you some tips on how to cheer your self up in days that you feel under the weather.

Most of these tips are tips that I use when I'm not feeling well. I hope you find them useful as well!

• Create a playlist with your favourite songs.

When I listen to my favourite songs, I don't know but it always cheers me up. At the moment, I am loving "Hair" by Little Mix. I don't know but this song is so up lifting. Try avoid listening to any sad songs as well because this will ruin your mood.

• Eat your favourite food.

Don't think about it, at least not now. Just eat whatever you like. Whatever makes you happy.

• Draw.

You can create your own drawing or get a colouring book, you know, the ones you always see online. This is more stress relieving, but if you enjoy drawing or designing, it will get you in a better mood.

• Surround yourself by people that make you happy.

That's an important thing to do. I mean, imagine being surrounded by people you don't like or people that are not happy. Would that make you happy? I don't think so.

• Cuddle your pet.

Pets can make you feel better instantly. If you've got one of course. If you don't, try looking at cute cats' pictures or pictures of puppies. That can work too.

• Watch your favourite movie or TV series.

This will make you happier, especially if it's  a comedy. Lately I've been loving "Girl Meets World".

• Have a relaxing bath.

Grab a bath bomb, create bubbles and, voila, you'll feel somewhat better.

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My Summer Playlist

 

 

 

Happy June everyone! Hope you all have a lovely summer! I still have some exams left. I'm in school until the 10th of this month ugh.

Today, I wanted to show you my summer playlist and maybe you can get some ideas. I don't really have a specific preference in music, I just listen a song and then decide if I like it or not. So in my playlist, there are songs of different types.

• Hey Angel - One Direction
• 18 - One Direction
• Little Do You Know - Alex & Sierra
• Into You - Ariana Grande
• Ed Sheeran Medley - Bethany Mota
• Blank Space - Taylor Swift
• Classic - MKTO
• Only Teardrops - Emmelie de Forest
• End Of The Day - One Direction
• Work From Home - Fifth Harmony
• Colors - Halsey
• Infinity - One Direction
• Out Of The Woods - Taylor Swift
• Hair - Little Mix
• Fire In The Rain - Mans Zelmerlow
• Popular Song - MIKA feat. Ariana Grande
• Illusion - One Direction
• Greedy - Ariana Grande
• Irresistible - One Direction
• Hands To Myself - Selena Gomez
• Life Of The Party - Shawn Mendes
• Roses - The Chainsmokers feat. ROZES
• For Him - Troye Sivan
• If I Could Fly - One Direction
• Youth - Troye Sivan
• Never Forget You - Zara Larsson & MNEK
• Moonlight - Ariana Grande

I'm probably going to add more songs. I bet there are a lot of songs coming out this summer and I'm so excited! Should I make a Spotify playlist? Comment below!

Thanks for reading and I will see you next week with another blog post!

Byeeee!
-Nicole x

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What's On My Phone

Hello everyone! How is everyone going? Hope you're all okay! I have finished my History, English and Maths exams. This week we've got Ancient Greek and Biology.
Another thing I wanted to talk about before writing the blog post is the Eurovision Song Contest 2016. Can we pleaaase make Mans and Petra hosts every year? I mean, they're the best hosts, no one will ever be able to top them and Love Love Peace Peace is the actual ESC 2016 winner. The ESC is something I've been watching since I was younger and I absolutely loved it. Anyways, let's get into the actual post!


For this week's blog, I decided I want to do a "What's On My Phone". Hope you enjoy!

My lock screen is Bethany Mota, and my home screen is Joe Sugg. Don't judge, I'm a fangirl.

When it comes to my phone, I am such a clean freak. I don't like having unnecessary stuff and I have my apps sorted in files. I have those files on the bottom of my home screen. In the first one, I've got Phone. Contacts, Messages and Viber.

The second file is named "Idk", since is just a miscellaneous apps, such as Settings, My Files. Voice Recorder, Clock, Memo and Clean Master.

The third one is all about photography and video apps. So, Camera, Gallery, PicsArt, Phonto, Retrica, VivaVideo Pro, InShot, Media Studio and VSCO (I use VSCO to edit my Instagram pictures).

The last one is my most used file, named Internet (Creative, I know). There I have Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, YouTube, Chrome, Tumblr, Play Store, Messenger, Wattpad and Facebook. If you wanna check out any of my social stuff, check my blog home page. There you can find my twitter, tumblr and youtube channel.

I've got three slides in my home screen. The first one is empty so I can see the home screen picture. The second is the main one, with clock, google search and apps like Flashlight, Calculator, Calendar and Browser. The last slide has Music and a picture slide.

                                    

So that's it for this week's blog post! If you want to check out the song I've been loving this week, go check my blog's home page. I am going to be changing the song every week, so make sure you check it out!

Tweet me (@mynicoleness) with what you want to see next and I'll see you next week with another blog post!

Bye!
-Nicole x

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