Blogmas 2020 My Most Listened To Songs Of 2020!

Blogmas 2020 – My Most Listened To Songs Of 2020!

So, unlike Spotify, Apple music doesn’t do a breakdown of what you’ve listened to with cool stats and stuff but they do give you a rewind playlist with the songs you’ve listened to most this year. There’s a bit of a mix this year but only a handful surprised me.

There has, of course, been a lot of Taylor Swift because Folklore was the perfect album to listen to when I needed to let my feelings out. There’s also been a lot of Katy Perry’s Smile for when I needed a pick me up to dust myself off. In general there’s a lot of kick ass women on this list with uplifting songs. Here they are (also they’re written how they’ve been promoted because apparently all the Folklore titles were in lower case?)

betty – Taylor Swift

this is me trying – Taylor Swift

I HATE EVERYBODY – Halsey

Good as Hell (ft Ariana Grande) – Lizzo

invisible string – Taylor Swift

the last great american dynasty – Taylor Swift

I Love Me – Demi Lovato

Daisies – Katy Perry

You should be sad – Halsey

7 Rings – Ariana Grande

peace – Taylor Swift

Not the End of the World – Katy Perry

London Boy – Taylor Swift

What makes a woman – Katy Perry

929 – Halsey

If The World Was Ending (ft Julia Michaels) – JP Saxe

epiphany – Taylor Swift

Never Really Over – Katy Perry

Truth Hurts – Lizzo

Paper Rings – Taylor Swift

Glorius (ft Skylar Grey) – Macklemore

the 1 – Taylor Swift

In Paris – Jay-Z & Kanye West

illicit affairs – Taylor Swift

Groove Is In The Heart – Deee-Lite

34 + 35 – Ariana Grande

Teary Eyes – Katy Perry

clementine – Halsey

killing boys – Halsey

Smile – Katy Perry

Strip (ft Sharaya J) – Little Mix

Wasabi – Little Mix

Not a Pop Song – Little Mix

Sweet Melody – Little Mix

Feeling Myself (ft Beyoncé) – Nicki Minaj

You Need To Calm Down – Taylor Swift

WAP (ft Megan Thee Stallion) – Cardi B

mad woman – Taylor Swift

august – Taylor Swift

Cry About It Later – Katy Perry

I Like It – Cardi B, Bad Bunny, J Balvin

just like magic – Ariana Grande

I Don’t care – Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber

Motivate – Little Mix

Joan of Arc – Little Mix

Take Back The Power – The Interrupters

thank u, next – Ariana Grande

Graveyard – Halsey

Ashley – Halsey

Lover – Taylor Swift

needy – Ariana Grande

Hard Times – Paramore

3am – Halsey

positions – Ariana Grande

Heaven Is Under The Sun – Beta Play

Only The Young – Taylor Swift

Dancing In the Moonlight – Toploader

Finally // beautiful stranger – Halsey

The Man – Taylor Swift

motive – Ariana Grande

shut up – Ariana Grande

Confetti – Little Mix

Rose Colored Boy – Paramore

seven – Taylor Swift

cardigan – Taylor Swift

hoax – Taylor Swift

MONOPOLY – Ariana Grande & Victoria Monét

Only Love – Katy Perry

I Forgot That You Existed – Taylor Swift

Death By A Thousand Cuts – Taylor Swift

Rebel Rebel – David Bowie

Runaway – P!nk

Would You Be So Kind – dodie

Savage – Megan Thee Stallion

Please Me – Cardi B & Bruno Mars

Power (ft Stormzy) – Little Mix

bad guy – Billie Eilish

ME! (ft Brandon Urie) – Taylor Swift

Confident – Demi Lovato

Punks Don’t Dance – Crystalyne

The Boys Are Back In Town – Thin Lizzy

Champagne Problems – Katy Perry

In the Middle – dodie

Still Into You – Paramore

death bed (ft beabadoobe) – Powfu

Salute – Little Mix

Juice – Lizzo

If I’m Honest – dodie

Come and Get Your Love – Redbone

Soon You’ll Get Better (ft The Chicks) -Taylor Swift

Older – Sasha Sloan

Hold My Hand – Jess Glynne

Just a Girl – No Doubt

Hair – Little Mix

Tucked – Katy Perry

Without Me – Halsey

Woman Like Me (ft Nicki Minaj) – Little Mix

Supermarket Flowers – Ed Sheeran

The Wild One – Suzi Quatro

What were some of your top listens this year? Let me know below!

Feminist Friday: 10 Kick Ass Pop Songs to Start Your Weekend

There’s nothing better than getting your groove on at the weekend. This week for Feminist Friday I wanted to share with you all some of my favourite feminist tunes.

Just a girl is a song to belt out when someone tells you that you can’t do something because you’re a woman.

Need a pick me up? You’re a survivor and you’re gonna make it. Just listen to Destiny’s Child.

A new take on an old classic. I love listening to this it makes me feel empowered and sexy.

Christina has been singing about the double standards that women face for over a decade. This song is still a belter.

Using music and one of my favourite speeches about feminism? You can’t really go wrong.

While people have questioned some of the lyrics, this song always makes me feel beautiful.

This goes out to all the boys who think I go out for them.

Fluent in sarcasm, heavy in criticism.

I’m a big fan of Blondie and this song is all about getting what you want.

Could I really leave off five of the women who shaped my love of girl power? Of course not.

What are some of your favourite? Let me know in the comments below!

Banishing Body Blues

Honesty time, I have spend this evening wallowing in my own self pity feeling awful and wanting to cry. Why? You ask? Not the injury, I haven’t failed anything (that I know of), nope I couldn’t fit into last years summer clothes. That’s it. Seems silly right? I’ve spent all evening trying to pal na blog but blocked by this big dark cloud of feeling worthless. So I write a blog (it sucked) and put on my iTunes to Emma Blackery, my favourite Youtuber, her song Perfect sits there. I’ve put it above because it’s such an uplifting song. I started listening to it and I was like yeah you know, I’m okay.

I might not be a size 8 any more and it sucks that some of my clothes don’t fit but right now I’m recovering. I can hardly walk but I’ve been crying over putting on weight? No logic there, right? My family, Ali and Friends tell me that it’s the least of my worries with a fractured spine, if there’s any time not to feel guilty about weight gain, it’s now.

I don’t want to be this critical of myself, if anything I think it’s just wanting control back of my body. It’s just letting me down and I hate it and there is nothing I can do, which hurts the most. Since I’ve been getting better from the depression I’ve wanted to be so positive and do things but I fall down sometimes and want to go back to bad habits. I’m still fighting and I wanted to share this song with you because I know that everyone has their own struggles, something I wrote about a couple of months back.

Am I completely happy and fine and cheery? No, that’s why I wrote this because if any of you are going through the same thing I want you to know it’s ok. I don’t want it to become this big disgusting secret and I might get crap for this but guess what I PUT ON WEIGHT. Just like all of us will at some point in our lives, I might put it on, lose it, I might never reach a size 8 again and I’ll never be the same size as my tiny sister. I’m trying to focus on the positives though, I’m smart, I’m going on a course in ATHENS for my work and can travel with my lovely boyfriend. It’s all about trying to put it in perspective and hopefully I can keep listening to the music until this cloud decides to go.

As always I’d love to talk to you guys so leave a comment! If you want to hear more about Emma Blackery you can also check out her YouTube channel, it’s brilliant. What are you waiting for, click the link here for her regular channel and here for lifestyle and advice!

This Time

This afternoon I had the euphoric and exhausting delight of finishing the third song on our EP!!!!!! It only took about 4 hours and endless takes but it’s the quickest we’ve finished a song which was an amazing feeling. The song is called This Time I think it was the second song I properly wrote up here, it was about moving and just having that feeling that every time you move you’ll get it right this time and move on. 

Without realising I started writing about myself and how I was feeling at the time. I wanted everything to change and work out instantly at uni and it didn’t, so I realised that maybe it was me. I suppose if I’m being arty about it all my songs are how I work things out in my head. I haven’t written one in a little while I’ve been so focused on performing but I’m hoping the summer will bring out more songs to jam out with the boys in September.