"If You're Not The One" - Daniel Bedingfield
Yes he is a scary, freaked-out, christian boy, and for the most part his music falls into the simpering-mockish-cack (British slang meaning feces or nonsense, rubbish) category but this song touches that part of my soul that is all teenage girl. With lyrics like: "If you’re not the one then why does my soul feel glad today?/ If you’re not the one then why does my hand fit yours this way?/ If you are not mine then why does your heart return my call?" BLECH! Cringe worthy I agree, says the full-grown woman part of me, the part of me that Josh Hathaway calls FirebreathingAndrea is actually nauseated by the song; but OH... that young hopeful romantic part of my soul, wants to meet the man that will really say to me: "And I hope you are the one I share my life with/ And I wish that you could be the one I die with/ And I pray you’re the one I build my home with/ I hope I love you all my life". Just not in the same girlie falsetto voice as Bedingfield, or firebreathingAndrea will probably just kick the crap out of you.
"Almost Lover" - A Fine Frenzy
A Fine Frenzy (a stage name taken from Shakespeare's, A Midsummer Night's Dream — real name Alison Sudol) is one of my favourite artists. Her debut album One Cell in the Sea has been at the top of my playlist for a year now and every time I hear it, I find a new gem; however I have always identified with "Almost Lover" above all other tracks. More than just a one-that-got-away song, to me "Almost Lover" is the one-that-never-existed song. The dream-man I have been waiting for, fantasizing about, wishing for. That man I have dreamed about finding for so long; tall, dark, and handsome, with the electric blue eyes, intelligent, caring, sexy, capable of doing the laundry AND loading the dishwasher without being asked. The man who is educated, witty and urbane with a six pack and sex drive to match. My perfect man who rides a motorbike (anything but a Harley, this is Britain afterall), enjoys art, literature and can articulate the beauty of Chopin while driving me home from a Foo Fighters concert and then seamlessly switch to joking about the 60 year-old couple in the front row with the Grateful Dead t-shirts.
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Article comments
1 - Josh Hathaway
I absolutely adore "Seven Years." That song just destroys me every time I listen to it.
2 - Josh Hathaway
Oh, and please breathe fire on that Bedingfield twerp and the other Bedingfield. My contempt for them both knows no bounds.
3 - A.L. Harper
Ah.... Josh you're such a softie!
It brings a tear to my eye too.
4 - A.L. Harper
*laugh* I like the girl Bedingfield.... well I like some of her stuff. The boy is vile, I admit it. Blech!
5 - Mark Saleski
really great to see both the pensive and the firebreathing andrea back in action.
p.s. Ysabeau is a beautiful name
p.p.s. can somebody please give me back the 50 seconds i just wasted looking at a daniel whateverthehellhisnameis video? yeesh!!
6 - A.L. Harper
Thank you very much Mr Saleski! It's lovely to be welcomed back into your loving embrace.
I'm glad you like my daughter's name. *smile* She loves it too, she thinks it sounds like a vampire name. *laugh*
Why on earth, after I said how cack that Bedingfield song is, would you go and listen to it?! Impressive that you lasted 50 seconds though. I tip my hat to you.
7 - Mark Saleski
if josh has contempt for something, i feel compelled to check it out. let's call it morbid curiosity.
8 - A.L. Harper
*laugh* I would agree, in most cases this is a very healthy attitude. As Josh feels contempt for most things in life and if you avoided them all you would have to lock yourself in a padded cell; even then the sound of barking puppies would still occasionally waft in through that high, bar covered window.
But in this case he was right. I mean if you hate everything well... even a stopped clock is right twice a day (unless of course it's on military time).