Summer Soundtrack

In other news, I took the MCAT two days ago and, for my own sanity, refuse to think anymore about that damn test -- at least until I get the scores back in a month.

Though I will say one thing -- my non-stop studying this past month has allowed me to amass a playlist of newly-discovered, newly-adored songs that may very well be playing on loop for the rest of my summer.

The Top 5 thus far:

1. Bad || Tablo ft. Jinsil

• Tablo, where have you been... ALLLL MYYYY LIFFEEEE? (I might as well confess, I've been listening to Rihanna's new song as well.) Jinsil's voice is ethereal, and Tablo's lyrics (at least, the English translations) are stunners. "My reason for breathing is now suffocating me."
  

2. This is What Makes Us Girls || Lana del Rey

• The first time I heard this song was actually in the Ralph Lauren store outlet. You know a musician has permeated my consciousness if I can recognize his or her voice anywhere. Think what you will of all the hullabaloo about Lana del Rey being manufactured -- her voice is still candy to my ears.
  

3. Get Your Shit || Wiz Khalifa

• For all those moments when I pretty much didn't want to give a crap anymore, the chorus does a pretty good job of expressing it for me.
  

Though admittedly, this gif does a pretty good job too.

4. LLove || Kaskade ft. Haley

• I don't listen to much house music. The problem is probably that I haven't really come across any songs that I fell head over heels for. This one though, has been been surprisingly stuck in my head. Though I suspect that for some unexplainable reason, ethereal voices is coming into fashion in my head (Jinsil and Lana, what's up) and so Haley's vocals have snagged onto my consciousness.
  

5. Oh Ah Oh || BIGBANG

• Don't get me wrong -- I am a diehard VIP. I have been following the Extraordinary League of Kickassery's 2012 comeback like a rabid dog. The newest songs -- "Blue", "Bad Boy", "Monster" -- have been phenomenal. ("Fantastic Baby" is a mixed bag for me -- I like to boom shakalaka like the rest of them, but ughhhhh WAY TOO MUCH MAKE-UP, O BADASS ONE.) Yet I still can't get enough of the older songs, and considering how I jumped on the bandwagon a little bit late, once in awhile I find an old song of theirs that I'd never listened to before and fall in love with them all over again. "Oh Ah Oh" was one of those -- it opens with a slick rap verse from none other than the King of Badassery, and it kind of makes me miss the younger TOP who seemed so fierce. (Not that he isn't fierce now, but somehow he seems kind of bored...)
  

I've been toying around with a creative project (short story) recently, but we'll see if it comes into fruition, or if I even decide to post it onto this blog. I may very well decide to scrap it and focus on EP instead.