Can We Talk About: Nina Nesbitt?

I've been waiting ages to finally have enough time to write this post..... IT'S FINALLY HERE! 

A bit about Nina- she's a Scottish (brownie points there am I right?) singer-songwriter, she plays the guitar, piano and flute, started her music career on YouTube but was a teenage model until she met and dated Ed Sheeran who (I'm assuming) got her to start producing and pursuing her music career more. She toured with him and Example and then started releasing EPs, and finally released an official album 'Peroxide' in early 2014. She spent the year touring and playing festivals, and she just finished touring the UK with The Vamps last month.

I started listening to Nina after listening to Ed's song about her (you've probably heard it, it's literally called 'Nina') for a week practically non-stop. I'd already known she made music but I hadn't ever really heard anything by her so, mostly just out of procrastination, I decided to check her out. 

It was practically love at first listen... if that's a thing? Nina's songs are so easy to fall in love with. In a lot of ways she writes like Taylor Swift, meaning she writes songs that you listen to and just think 'YES, THIS IS HOW IT THIS IS HOW I FEEL SHE PUT IT IN WORDS'. Her lyrics are mostly about her... I was going to say love life and finding herself but I really think her lyrics are just about her, and her life and things she goes through and okay yeah a lot of them are about boys but they're the kind of songs that can relate to so many situations. I'm pretty sure I've related 90% of her songs about relationships to one of my situations even when at least 75% of them were probably written about a situation completely different to my own. Don't do the math, all you need to know is her music is the kind of music you can listen to no matter what you're going through and immediately feel comforted and understood. 

In terms of her sound, it's pretty much just straight up acoustic, she has a very singular voice, it's kind of different to most of the popular or current music in America in the sense that it's just straight up music. It's similar to Taylor Swift pre-Red but more like, if you've heard it, any acoustic Ellie Goulding tunes just more upbeat. In contrast to Taylor Swift, it's not just Nina's lyrics that make her music one of my favourites, it's also her voice itself. Girl can hit notes, alright. She's kind of like if T-Swiz wrote an album with her new upbeatedness, but still acoustic and with killer lyrics. 

Anyways, even if you don't like Taylor or Ellie, there's a good chance you'll like Nina so give her a chance! I find her music is very refreshing to listen to because we're so used to listening to the same old manufactured pop music, and in contrast, Nina's songs are very much just real, raw, music. Classic.
SOOOOOO go on and give her album 'Peroxide' a listen here!

My personal favourite songs by Nina Nesbitt are: 
- Peroxide (duh)
- Mr. C
- Way in the World
- Some You Win
- Hold You (ft. Kodaline) = actually amazing I CAN'T EVEN EXPRESS IT ENOUGH
- The Outcome
- The Hardest Part

Can We Talk About: 5 Seconds of Summer?!

I'm not exactly sure what 5sos (pronounced 5sauce, and if you call it 5-S-O-S you might as well be calling Cal asian, and I'll probably punch you), is doing on my beauty blog, but I wanted to add a quick post in while I have the time! In case you have no idea what 5sos is. They're a band, a proper band, not a boyband. They're losers. They look like this:

Left to right we have Michael, Luke, Ashton and Calum. Boys, if you ever see this, you're welcome for using the picture of you as folksos instead of a proper one.
Basically, I heard of 5sos, like most people who aren't Australian like they are, through One Direction. 5sos opened for One Direction during their Take Me Home tour and now they're kind of a big deal. So, I feel like it's my duty as a member of the 5sosfam (that's what we call the fandom, I like it), to inform you about these four hella rad boys. Here's all you need to know about 5sos, condensed into bullet points

• they have a constant stuggle between wanting to be punk rock and wanting to be cuddly unicorns that vomit sparkles and rainbows
• Michael is the only one who will ever come close to being punk rock, even though Luke pierced his lip and tries really hard to be punk, he won't be bc penguins. 
• Ashton's the selfie king. 
• Calum is not Asian, he's a puppy. Get it right. 
• They all play instruments, they are NOT a boyband. 
• They fly all around the world yet they can't afford bus fare.
• Because they jump from timezone to timezone they have a very poor concept of time and therefore have absolutely no idea what 'soon' means. If they tell you something is 'coming soon', just remember that they probably don't even know what that means themselves
• despite being lyrical geniuses, they have god awful communication skills. Except Ash, Ash is sometimes okay at that
• They all have better legs than you. 
• Luke is half Australian, half giant. This is why he's so tall and also why he eats so much. 
• the fifth second of summer is the 5sosfam. That's why there's five seconds, when there's only four of them, because the 5sosfam counts as the fifth. Do you understand that? I hope so because if I see one more tweet about that I might explode. It's not funny.
• They're not like One Direction; you can't tell which is which by their clothes bc I swear to god they all wear each other's clothes, I don't even think they know who's is who's anymore. 
• They have compiled millions of followers and an extremely supportive fan base, won two awards and done a world tour without even releasing an album yet. 
• The CIA is looking into whether a 5sos album really exists because they've been talking about said album for over a year now and we still have very little proof of it being real or whether it's just a hoax and 5sos is all just a fantasy that delusional directioners have made up
• Louis Tomlinson of One Direction discovered the boys and thus brought them to us and is therefore the 5sosfam queen.
• Niall Horan is an honorary member of 5sos, he likes to sneak in with the boys and pretend he's in the band.
• 5sos will bombard you with tweets and keeks and selfies until you fall in love with them
• do not go into youtube and watch the Try Hard video to determine whether or not you like them, because I did that and I missed out on a good month of loving them because of it.... try watching the Try Hard KoKo video. Trust me.

In case I missed the point, which I probably did, you should go look up 5sos and fall in love with them because they're wonderful and lovely and actually talented so if you don't know who they are or if you heard of them but didn't listen to them because you don't like One Direction then you're severely missing out.

Heres their twitter's go fall in love with them

Luke

Michael

Ashton

Calum

Why wouldn't you listen to them? It's called common sense motherfucker 

I'm out.