#Amy Macdonald

[dreamsagain]

Amy Macdonald - This is the Life

Crank it up! Posted it just as a feel good song because I need it more than most right now. I normally defer the music to my friend @crystalclearmusic2

#amy macdonald #scottish music #Youtube

[taevisionceo]

Good Morning ☕️ Have y'all a great and blessed Friday

Never Let The Fear Of Striking Out Keep You From Playing The Game. ~ A Cinderella Story 👍💫💯 Get up, abandon fear, and play the Game of Life.

In any situation of the Life (Game)… fear immobilizes… destroys… limits the mental capacity… limits dreams… Fear doesn't allow us to move forward. Get up, abandon fear, and play the Game of Life. Let us not allow fear control us…

A new day… to continue playing The Game Of Life 😍😍👍💫 40 min trying to connect

Connecting… 10:57am Fri, Apr 05

In my "Home Station" playing THIS IS THE LIFE - Amy Macdonald

#GoodMorning #FridayMorning #FridayQuote #Connecting #THIS IS THE LIFE #Amy Macdonald #Youtube

[hello-delicious-tea]

BabyTea woke up with gas, thrashed around awhile, said “gripe a baby” which I still don’t understand, then made a truly epic fart, said “awesome toot toot,” then “coming out a weenie,” then started wailing. Very upset his dragon pants were dampened.

#amy macdonald #an extended potty sit #and some bunny pants #and he was back to sleep in no time #god parenting is hilarious #I am so glad that I taught him to say toot toot #that and tootsie have given me such joy

[weaversweek]

"This is the life" and "Bring me to life"

"Life's what you make it" is too old for the #FearOfMu21c project, where we're crowdsourcing the greatest singles of the 21st century. Everything already Talk Talked about is in an index post.

This is the life - Amy MacDonald

"I saw Pete Doherty's first gig in Glasgow after he left Libertines. It was a great night - he did a little acoustic thing at the aftershow party too, and we got into that. Then me and my pals went back to someone's house and just sat, passing the guitar round, singing songs. It was a brilliant night. The next morning I wrote 'This Is The Life' about it, cause I realized, this is the life."

Title track to the 2007 debut album, Amy MacDonald arrived as though she'd been around forever. Girl, guitar, and memories of going clubbing till the wee small hours and the fear of missing out. Number 1 in Austria, Belgium, Czechia, and Netherlands; number 28 on blighty, because .uk record buyers preferred the album. Amy's continued to write, and record, and tour.

Bring me to life - Evanescence

A goth-metal band with Christian roots, the public view was mostly of singer Amy Lee. And of her physical attributes, not her vocal abilities: on this single, Amy belts out the lyric, shifting from soprano to alto in a single phrase. There's a rap break in the middle, though a mix was released without the rap. And there's a concept video, featuring Amy in her nightie.

All of this meant the single would get a reception. The reason it stayed four weeks at number one? It's a bit different, and it's a massive lot of good. There's a tune, there's something in the lyric, it's danceable, it's not the chugging dance beat of every other record of this moment. This song's success wasn't divine intervention. And thereby hangs a tale...

Evanescence got their start on the Christian Music scene. They were big beasts, playing songs of faith to the faithful. And then: bang! they slammed that door shut. And it's all the fault of the bigots in the Christian music scene.

You might think the British indie scene is harsh, that the NME would build up its heroes then knock them down, then kick them. Christian Music is like that, but harsher, because the critics pretend to know what The God Organisation is thinking. In reality, the critics fall into the trap of idolatory: they expect human beings to be infallible and perfect. Worse, they'll call flaws in other people before accepting the mote in their own eye.

The Christian Music scene is narrow and often bigoted. It's a place where divorce ends careers, where anything that might stop white women from producing white babies is terrible. It's a place where the haters revel in their hatred, where the performers are not permitted to sin. It's cloying and confining. Frankly, Evanescence were best out of it.

None of this changed the parent album: Fallen explored faith and its absence. However much the band denied it, this was a religious album, drawing from Amy Lee and Ben Moody's upbringing. The band turned their back on Christan Music, but didn't repudiate their upbringing. The lyrics draw from Christian imagery, and a particular view of the world. Questions about the afterlife, a search for salvation, fretting that everything is meaningless. They may not be a Christian Music band, but their music is Christian.

Recently released: the 2002 demo version, which is similar to - but not the same as - the version we all heard the following summer.

#amy macdonald #evanescence #singer-songwriter #troubadour #goth rock #christian music #bigotry #christian goth #amy lee #Youtube #fear of mu21c #fear of music #FearOfMu21c #fearofmu21c #pop music #21st century

[lesbianboyfriend]

#jules.txt #amy macdonald #radio jules #Spotify

[baskabirevrendesin]

Where you gonna sleep tonight?

– Bu gece nerede uyuyacaksın?

#amy macdonald #this is the life #insanlar #kitap alintilari #spotify #egeizmirindir

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: December 10, 2007

Lyrics:

Oh, the wind whistles down

The cold dark street tonight

And the people, they were dancing

To the music vibe

And the boys chase the girls with curls in their hair

While the shy tormented youth sit way over there

And the songs get louder each one better than before

And you're singing the songs thinking this is the life

And you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the size

Where you gonna go, where you gonna go, where you gonna sleep tonight?

And you're singing the songs thinking this is the life

And you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the size

Where you gonna go, where you gonna go, where you gonna sleep tonight?

Where you gonna sleep tonight?

So you're heading down the road in your taxi for four

And you're waiting outside Jimmy's front door

But nobody's in and nobody's home 'til 4

So you're sitting there with nothing to do

Talking about Robert Riger and his motley crew

And where you gonna go, where you gonna sleep tonight?

And you're singing the songs thinking this is the life

And you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the size

Where you gonna go, where you gonna go, where you gonna sleep tonight?

And you're singing the songs thinking this is the life

And you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the size

Where you gonna go, where you gonna go, where you gonna sleep tonight?

Where you gonna sleep tonight?

And you're singing the songs thinking this is the life

And you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the size

Where you gonna go, where you gonna go, where you gonna sleep tonight?

And you're singing the songs thinking this is the life

And you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the size

Where you gonna go, where you gonna go, where you gonna sleep tonight?

And you're singing the songs thinking this is the life

And you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the size

Where you gonna go, where you gonna go, where you gonna sleep tonight?

And you're singing the songs thinking this is the life

And you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the size

Where you gonna go, where you gonna go, where you gonna sleep tonight?

Where you gonna sleep tonight?

Songwriter: Amy Elizabeth MacDonald

SongFacts:

This Is the Life is a folk rock song by British singer-songwriter Amy Macdonald. It was recorded as the title track of her debut album 'This Is the Life' and was released in December 2007 as her fourth single.

Of the song, Amy Macdonald said:

"I saw Pete Doherty's first concert in Glasgow after he left the Libertines. It was a great night - he did a little acoustic thing at the after show party and we joined. Then me and my friends would go to one's house and just sit there and pass the guitar around and sing songs. It was a brilliant night. The next morning I wrote the song "This Is the Life" about it because I realized this is life."

The single reached number 28 in the UK charts. It was more successful in Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy, where it reached number one, as well as in Germany and Switzerland with number two, Sweden with number three, Norway with number one and Denmark in eighth place.

#Youtube #Spotify #Amy Macdonald #This is the life #music #music video #hit of the day #video of the day #youtube video #chaos radi o #good music #indie rock #indie folk #pop #alternative rock #folk #alternative #indie #23 #lyrics #songfacts

[undiscoperlapausapranzo]

#UnDiscoPerLaPausaPranzo - #1491 - 30 Giugno 2023 - Amy Macdonald - This is the life - 2007

#Un Disco per la Pausa Pranzo #30 Giugno 2023 #Amy Macdonald #This is the life #2007

[holocenestatelines]

#🖤.mp3 #amy macdonald #this is the life #Spotify

[bisexualmotif]

#songs that my mom listened to during my childhood <3 #(i’m not 100% sure abt some of them but that’s fine) #(& there are definitely still so many that i forgot to add) #Spotify #also i feel like a lot of these actually scream *mother* so that’s cool #alanis morissette #skunk anansie #p¡nk #krezip #anouk #sixpence none the richer #natasha bedingfield #natalie imbruglia #avril lavigne #k’s choice #adele #rondé #amy winehouse #dido #amy macdonald #hozier #miss montreal #ilse delange #meredith brooks #mother

[kat-luv]

Daily Song Recommendation #241

#spotify #this is the life #amy macdonald

[savageandwise]

#amy macdonald #gasometer vienna

[luchicm04]

day 19 - that makes you think about life

#30 day song challenge #spotify #day 19 #Spotify #this is the life #amy macdonald

[taevisionceo]

Good Morning ☕️ Enjoy y'all a great and blessed Tuesday

Bad things come suddenly, with no warning. But we forget that sometimes that's how the good things come too. ~ Meredith Grey in "Grey's Anatomy" 👍💫💯 But let's not forget that in the midst of the chaos of life… magic can emerge in an instant.

Connecting… 11:06am Tue, Feb 13

In my "Home Station" playing THIS IS THE LIFE - Amy Macdonald

#GoodMorning #TuesdayMorning #TuesdayQuote #Connecting #Amy Macdonald #This Is The Life #Youtube

[weaversweek]

Uncool50 - finding my place

Part of the #Uncool50 project, a sort-of autobiography told through the memories of pop singles. This installment covers the second half of the 2000s. Nothing from 2005 or 2006, by now my head had been turned by European hits and the anglophone stuff just wasn’t fun.

The theatre kid who made it. "Grace Kelly" came out of nowhere at the start of 2007, as flamboyant and ostentatious and unashamedly queer as anything. Mika sounds like Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of Queen who was snatched from us far too soon.

The homophobes hated it. Of course the homophobes hated it, they cannot stand anything fun, colourful, honest. One review at the time said, "Like being held at gunpoint by Bonnie Langford", as if this was a bad thing!

This song is fun, it's catchy, it worms into your ears and is never going to leave. Might just be the greatest pop song of the decade. More power to Mika.

The greatest pop moment of the decade comes straight after the breakdown in "About you now". We hear the chorus line again – "can we bring yesterday back around?" But this time it's different – a little higher-pitched, a touch yelpy. And there's a gloriously discordant high tone, "coz I know how I feel about you now".

By this time, we're up to Sugababes 3.0 – Siobhan's long-gone, Mutya's been replaced by Amelle - but the songs still remain awesome. Dancey-electronica with a scuzzy overtone. And the video with the young man parkouring his way around south London, hopes to meet up with his date on the Southbank.

My long list of 300 songs had a lot of Sugababes – "Overload" and "Freak like me", "Too lost in you", "Ugly" and "Change" all featured. But none of them have this yelp of joy, that’s the clincher.

"This is the life", Amy MacDonald's defining hit. Breakthrough single "Mr rock and roll" had positioned Amy as a troubadour, sings songs about people's lives. She uses a few words to describe a scene, and whoosh – we're in it!

"This is the life" is a personal, probably autobiographical, song. "So you're sitting there with nothing to do, talking about Robert Riger and his motley crew". Life-affirming through its melancholy, drunken nights out and waiting in for friends and thinking both that this is excellent and this is terrible.

Number one for the year in Belgium, Netherlands; for some weeks in Austria and Czechia; top five in all civilised markets around the continent. And number 28 on Britain, because the playlisters and programmers in London are a complete waste of space and goodness knows who pays them. Amy's built a hugely successful career in Europe, and still makes top-drawer albums to this day.

So I started hanging out with a bunch of friends from the karaoke bar, and we went out to a maize maze, ears of corn up to eye level. Or for Caz, ears of corn over the top of her head. Caz managed to lose contact with the group, get lost, and had to be rescued by the tall stablehand.

We welcomed Anna into our friendship group, and she turned out to be the glue to hold us together, and we loved her dearly. "Bulletproof" by La Roux is one of many many songs from those years. This time, maybe, I'll be bulletproof.

#uncool50 #uncool 50 #personal #autobiography #pop singles #mika #queer #queer representation #sugababes #video #amy macdonald #troubadour #la roux #genderqueer

[mygrowingcollection]

Amy MacDonald and Marjorie Priceman

#Amy MacDonald #Marjorie Priceman #author #illistrator #signed book #thrift store find