During this pandemic, I’m kind of getting uninspired and tired with coming up with ideas with what to write for each week. I usually find a lot of songs each week, but it’s tough to find one special song that I can write so much about, so I want to write a special dedication for some song that I’ve been vibing to during quarantine. 

The first song I want to talk about is Feeling Whitney by Post Malone. This song really gives me the feeling of me bringing drowsy on top of a clif feeling like I’m free with no stress, but you’re actually in the lowest part of your life. I would recommend listening if you’re done with life.

The next song I want to talk about is When We Were Young by Adele. This song is about having things so great before and not realizing what was taken from you before it left. This can be related to my life before because I never realized the luxury of being able to be in a grocery store or just in public without worrying about catching a disease. I also never realized on that last day (March 13 also known as Friday the 13th) that school will never feel the same again, and when we’ll go back to school, all you would see is paranoid on every student’s faces.

The last song I would want to mention is Touch by Sleeping At Last. This song gives a very lullaby vibe and feels very sad. I think what this song means is that they’ve been through something bad, and that they finally want to feel happiness and to be alive. This is a great song for someone who has just lost someone dear to them and finally wants to move on from being mournful. 

You may notice that they’re all sad songs, but I think it’s great for right now after everything that has been going on. A lot of people are losing loved ones, and if you are one of those lucky people who hasn’t had someone been taken away from them, these times are still sad and we should acknowledge all of it until we move on.

Instead of talking to you about music this week, I want to talk to you about how my life is so far during quarantine. Next week on wednesday will mark my two months of quarantine, which is wild if you think about it. These past two months I have done nothing but eating, sleeping, doing homework, and swimming, which should have been me finishing my freshman year of highschool. Of course I’m grateful for my great health and my home to protect me and my family, but I’ve missed so much of freshman year. Of course it’s nothing compared to what other people might be feeling and other more important things that have been taken away by them, which I have now realized after seeing the rate how corona virus is spreading. 

Sometimes I beg my mom to let me come with her to the grocery store to help her out and to maybe “protect” her from all those racist attacks against asians, but she never lets me because she’s scared of me catching it. All day I sit and wonder if it would be better if I moved to Vietnam, where I was born, since their rates are so low with under 300 cases. If you didn’t know their schools are also reopening which I find really interesting since they are a third world country with under 300 cases and reopening schools while the US, a first world country with over 1 million cases.  It shocks me how so many people I see on the news protesting how they shouldn’t be kept inside, since by doing that they spread it and might catch it. It truely amazes how dumb this country can be when they should be the opposite. 

To entertain myself from endless amounts of homework, sometimes I go swimming in my pool with my siblings when it’s hot out or sometimes I watch videos on youtube or watch Netflix shows or movies. Lately I’ve been getting into Kdramas and chickflixs, probably because of how lonely I am. If I’m not doing either of those things, I would probably be playing games or eating. My daily life has now become an endless routine and it scares me with what might happen in the future if things never get better. I really hope people stay safe out there and make wise decisions.

To a really smooth song that just makes you feel like there’s no better thing to do than be there. 

Even with the low sounds and the smoothness of it, I also really like the lyrics that also go with the song.“So I’ll be coasting, roller-coasting, Through my emotion,” This is one of my favorite lyrics because it really shows how going through after a break up might feel like. This stage is kind of like the I don’t care anymore and whatever happens, happens kind of stage what I really like. No matter what any break up, everyone has gone through this stage where they don’t really give a damn anymore.

Although quarantine has been great with me staying up late and waking up late the next day and also the fact that I can pace myself with the amount of homework I get, I just want to get outside and just go anywhere, even the store. I want to just have it back to normal where we can go to the park or store without having to caution everyone around us. This song represents what I’m feeling right now and you should listen to it whenever you get the chance because maybe it can open your eyes in many ways.

This week I want to talk to you about a song that’s kinda special to me. This song isn’t an english song that I’ve been posting about. This is a vietnamese song, where I’m from. It’s not a Vpop song, but more of a traditional/slow song. The name of the song is Hay Ve Day Ben Anh by Duh Manh. It was an actual struggle to actually find the actual owner of this song because there are many covers to this song and yes I listen to them. The person that does this cover that I listen to is Jaykii. He made this rather country song into more of a modern slow love song, which I think is a better fit to these lyrics.

The title translated in english is “Please come back to me” and the lyrics are really amazing. Some of my favorites from this song is, “There are many nights where I dream of us holding hands, choked up on the things we want to say.” Another lyric from this song is, “The years have passed and I am still waiting, Where are you now? Won’t you return to my side?” As you can see these lyrics are very meaningful and I think they’re better when you listen to them in vietnamese. There are also many jokes to this song like how this song is the Viet’s national anthem, it’s not, which at times I consider it is, since it’s such a great song and everyone that’s viet knows it. 

I’ve also had many memories with this song like when I would be eating a snack or watching tv as a little kid and my dad would come home from work and would sing this song while entering the front door. My mom would notice and would smile and he would come over to hug her. I thought it was the cutest thing ever and I wished that would be my relationship when I grow up. You should totally listen to this song if you want a cute slow song that’ll get you in the lovey dovey vibe.

For this week of quarantine, I want to share another song, a rather sad song in fact. The song I want to talk about is called “The story never ends” by Lauv. Lauv is a really special artist to me because he’s one of my favorite artists of all time ever since 6th grade because that was when I started getting into music. He’s a really genuine artist who releases songs that I could personally relate to and they aren’t sexualized towards women or racist or anything like that which I really love about him. Some of my favorite songs from him are “I like me better” or “chasing fire”.

Enough with his other songs, I want to talk about this song alone. The first time I ever heard it was actually through a sad playlist created by someone on spotify. It reminded me of the aftermath of a breakup. Of course I’ve never experienced a break up or have come close to something like that, but I do know a little of heart pain and it does hurt. This song is about how after the break up the ex gave him all the blame and wish they never met, and I guess in that relationship one of them put more effort and was more loving than the other. Some of my favorite lyrics from that song was “But go ahead give me all the blame, twist my words and set them to flames.” I feel like out of the entire song, those were the most powerful lyrics because after a relationship, people might lie with what might’ve happened to make them seem like the better person there, even though it may be their own fault. I can relate to that because I had this one friend that I had a good relationship with, until she did something horrible. That song reminded me of her and it saddens me after remembering all the good times I had with her.

I really recommend it to teens or young adults because even though they might still not know what love is, they are capable of showing love.

As quarantine continues, I have a lot of time to find new songs. Today I want to share a song I’ve recently found through me putting my weekly discover on shuffle to find music that I already don’t listen to. The song I want to talk about today is Young and Alive by Bazzi. This song was recently released and was created for his girlfriend for their two year anniversary. I think it’s adorable and cute that he wrote her a song because it’s kinda cliche and they’ve always been a cute couple. This song was included in an album with another song that was also dedicated to her which is called Renee’s Song. With that title you can probably tell that’s her name. That song is also another cliche song about his troubled past, but after her coming into his life it became better. Quote “But my worst days, they won’t last If you come here,” Of course this song was created for his girlfriend but this song makes it like it’s made for you and that you’re madly in love. 

More about the song I want to talk about, Young and Alive, is about being together for quite some time and even though they’ve known each other for a long time, she still gives him butterflies. Whenever he’s with her he feels like he’s in highschool again, meeting her for the first time. I think it’s cliche for that same reason and I think the two duo song in that album is cute together because one is about being young and alive and having together fun together with no worries and the other one is more deep talking about how bad his past is and even though he might be in his worst days, having her around instantly makes it better. With those two songs,it really expresses having fun and the other one is more about appreciation towards her.

I really like both songs but I feel like ‘Renee’s song’ is more about adult love and I’ve never experienced love in the first place so I can’t really relate to it, but ‘Young and Alive’ is more about highschool love and having fun which I think I can relate to more. If you ever feel like you want to listen to a lovey dovey song these two are the ones you need to try out. It’ll make you really miss that one special person.

Instead of this week with me talking about new music or one of my favorite songs, today I want to talk about what everyone on this planet earth is going through, Covid-19. First I want to say my thoughts based on what I’m seeing through in my eyes, with no articles involved or news broadcasts.

For me this quarantine has been both a pleasurable thing and a torturous thing. I enjoy sleeping later than usual not worrying either the fact that I’ll be late to school, dressing nice, or not having enough time to finish my homework. I love that I get to go at my own pace and be able to put on a film or a movie to enjoy while doing my homework. 

There’s also some bad things about quarantine like not being able to go outside of my home, seeing my friends, and little things like breathing fresh air. I love my home and my family, but seeing them and being around them, trapped between walls frustrate me. All day continuously I munch on snacks and all types of food to try distract my boredom, and that’s why my weight is like a rollercoaster. There are also not many things I’m missing because of quarantine, besides school, things like prom and graduation, which would sadden me if those things were taken away from me, but then again there are also many bigger problems out there like people dying and not having enough food to feed your families, and that’s what’s keeping me hopeful, because of the fact that I’m blessed with enough food and shelter from this pandemic. 

Looking globally, all I see is Covid-19 on the news, all day just about it’s death counts and how many people have it. On social media, all I see is racist stories about asians getting beaten up and other really sad stories. It’s really tiring when that’s what you’re thinking about all day and seeing everyone talk about it just really make people think that they’re going to die. If anything through this we should work together and get rid of this virus instead of going outside to spread it even more, but at least through this, our earth is healing through us isolating into our homes. Stay safe out there.

    This week I want to introduce a song that I’ve recently discovered. This song is called Sunflower by Shannon Purser. I discovered this song in a movie called Sierra Burgess is a Loser. This movie was about a girl who never fit in highschool and was always bullied because of her looks. She was bullied by the most popular girls in school, until one day where the leader of the most popular group of girls in school was asked for her number by a quarterback of another school. Veronica, the leader of the group wasn’t interested, and gave the guy Sierra Burgess’s number instead of her own. In the end of the movie, where he finds out what has happened, she comes up with this song to show how she was sorry. 

    This song I feel is a really cute song that doesn’t have cuss words or sexual activity like other songs these days. It talks how she is a sunflower and unwanted when there are other flowers out there like roses, where I guess are the superior flowers because they’re beautiful like the other people in this world. There’s this one lyric I like, “Rose goes in glass vases perfect bodies, perfect bodies, perfect faces. They all belong in magazines those girls the boys are chasing,” and “but I’m a sunflower a little funny,” and I really like those lyrics because everybody has been in that position where they feel like they’re ugly or not good enough, but they are beautiful in every way including their body shape, skin color, race, nationality, ancestry, their language, or how they dress. Just about anything. I prefer sunflowers anyway because of how tall they are and how they face the sun always, like they’re looking for the good things in this world.

    If any of you guys get a chance to listen to this song I highly recommend it. It’s a sweet, short song that everyone can like and relate to. I highly would recommend it to all the teens out there wanting a sweet little song to help cure their broken heart or want something to lift their spirits. ❤

    One of my favorite artists that I want to talk about today is Octavio, who I once mentioned in one of my previous blogs. His name is Octavio. Like I mentioned before, he is a very underrated artist with barely 8,000 subs on youtube and 4000 followers on instagram, and I’m happily one of those subscribers and followers. His songs are about his previous relationships which failed, he’s kind of like Taylor Swift who sings about break ups. His songs are really amazing and really great quality. His songs have lyrics that are so powerful, which they would sound like they’re from more popular artists, but they’re from him which feel really special, since so little people know about him. 

    The song that I want to mention today, besides Love Me Please which I mentioned a few blogs back, is Don’t Dream It’s Over. This song I feel like is about a relationship ending and a person in that relationship is trying to commit suicide. This song is kind of like a pop song and a sad song at the same time, without the slow music in the background. One of the lyrics that really hit deep is “When the world comes in,” I think it’s an amazing lyric because when you’re at the lowest point in life, it feels like the world is ending and there’s nothing left to live for, and then there’s this lyric “You know they won’t win,” which is also really powerful because it’s kind of like reassurance, because it’s kind of like not letting death win because of the point of the song, suicide. 

    I’ve recently discovered him, just about one month ago which isn’t that long ago, while listening to my made for you, which is kind of like recommendations, and the song Love Me Please showed up, and I instantly fell in love with that song. I searched up the artist on youtube, and saw he was underrated, but I gave his songs a chance, because usually these days some artists would have one good song that’s really popular, but the rest of their songs aren’t that popular, but than after listening to all his songs, I saw he was a genuine artist that puts out songs that have genuine feelings in them, which isn’t really the case for a lot of artists these days, whether they’re popular or not. I recommend listening to him, especially if you’re a teenager that’s heartbroken. 🙂

    Today I want to talk about this one song that I’ve loved since forever and it’ll always be. This song is called Part of Your World from The Little Mermaid. This was in the first disney movie I’ve ever seen and it’s never going to leave my head ever!

    The Lyrics are about this creature, more specifically a mermaid who fell in love with this human, where they can’t be together because they are socially unacceptable to be together and physically can’t be togther.

    Anyways there were many memories with this song that will never leave my mind. There was this one time when I first came over to America and I didn’t know how to speak english. My aunt first introduced me to this movie because it was also her favorite disney movie. She lent it to me because whenever I would come to her house I would watch it over and over countless times. You could say I fell in love with it. 

    I also fell in love with the soundtrack to, from Part of Your World to Under the Sea. All of the songs were that catchy where any 5 year old would love. I remember dancing to this song and jamming to it in my bedroom every single day.

    If you were a child with no decent wifi or cable, you would know the struggle with watching decent films. There were some good ones, but it’s rare, so everytime I wanted to watch a good film without having the wifi stop your film, I would watch The Little Mermaid everytime, since it was on a DVD. 

    If you have never watched The Little Mermaid, I highly recommend it. It may be a disney classic and no one really watch classics anymore, but the plot is better than most movies or stories these days so yeah, if you ever get the chance to watch it, you should.