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A Beautiful Life

Whenever I get a chance to find new and good music, I take it and I enjoy it.

The Danish Netflix movie A Beautiful Life was one of these chances.

We see a fisherman who loves to sing and play music with no intention of becoming a music star. Somehow, his talents are discovered by a music producer and there the story grows.

Elliott, the fisherman/musician takes us through the movie with beautiful songs that he gets to write and sing.

The movie may not be everyone’s cup of tea as it falls under the cheesy romance drama category but it is a good story.

To be very honest, it was Elliott’s looks that drew me to the movie. He is a hunk.

Elliott is played by Danish singer Christopher Lund Nissen. He’s commonly known as Christopher. I’m glad to have found him and I’ve latched unto some of his previous songs.

My favourite song from the movie is the one with the same title as the movie… It’s a beautiful song… A beautiful Life – Christopher

Tennessee orange

I listened with a little bit of melancholy but I smiled the whole time.

I was melancholic because I couldn’t get over thinking about the way a person can give up all and everything they once believed in for another because of the way they make them feel. I smiled because I actually thought it was sweet.

Tennessee Orange is a song by Megan Moroney.

It’s a song about college football. In the song, she tells her folks how she had ditched her Georgia ways for some guy’s Tennessee thing.

She sings a lot of confessions about the many ways she has disappointed them and finishes with; “I’m wearing Tennessee Orange for him” after each verse.

It is unusual for a person to totally switch sides from one club/group to the other… Like an Arsenal fan suddenly becoming a Manchester United fan, or Lakers fan suddenly loving Celtics…

… But I guess love can make a person do this.

Love can make a person do a lot of things they never imagined they would.

It’s the reason Bulldog red doesn’t seem too appealing anymore and now she’s wearing Tennessee Orange for him.

What’s This For?

My phone has been sending me funny signs, it’s telling me I need to get a new phone.

I decided to start clearing up stuff gradually before I finally make the change.

Today I hit my phone’s notes and somewhere in there, I found a list of 31 songs.

I don’t have a clue what this list was made for but it was drafted on April 6th, 2020 at 4:47pm.

1. Black – Dierks Bently
2. 4 page letter – Aaliyah
3. Long Hot Summer – Keith Urban
4. Drink a beer – Luke Bryan
5. As – Mary J Blige/George Michael
6. Moves like Jagger – Maroon 5
7. Cop car – Keith Urban
8. Alcohol – Brad Paisley
9. Strip it down – Luke Bryan
10. Whiskey Lullaby – Brad Paisley & Alison Kraus
11. First love – Boys II men
12. Super woman – Karyn White
13. Run to you – Whitney Houston
14. From this Moment – Shania Twain
15. Me and Mrs Jones – Michael Buble version
16. Sweet apocalypse – Lambert
17. Total eclipse of the heart – Bonnie Tyler
18. Eye of the tiger – Survivor
19. The house that built me – Miranda Lambert
20. I got away – Luke Combs
21. Georgia on my mind – Ray Charles
22. Love on top – Beyonce
23. The only one who gets me – Charles Kelly
24. Shape of my heart – Back street boys
25. Kiss – Prince
26. I’d love to be your last – Clay Walker
27. Fire away – Chris Stapleton
28. I’m coming over – Chris Young
29. I apologise – Anita Baker
30. Beautiful Crazy – Luke Combs
31. 6-8-12 – Brian McKnight

Whatever it is or was for, maybe someone can find one song that they like 😁😁😁

When I say Chris Brown

I’ve had a number of people literally drop a jaw or ask me “really?” whenever they hear me say a song was sung by Elevation worship and Chris Brown

Yeah, Chris Brown…but not the one you imagine.

Let me introduce you to the Chris Brown I speak of.

He is 41 years old, born on the 22nd day of December, 1981. He is married to Beth (college sweetheart) and they have two children (Joah and Adelaide).

He grew up under a pastor dad and a singer/musician mom… So you figure. He has a degree in Vocal Performance which he got from Anderson University.

Chris has been singing since he was a teen. He has been leading Elevation Worship since 2007 and has been friends with the Pastor for many years.

Although Chris isn’t my favourite worship leader, this guy really knows how to stir a heart to worship and to praise. Pastor Steven Furtick has actually admitted that he is his favourite.

He can be calm and soothing when he sings songs like Trust in God, Same God or Talking to Jesus and then he can be wild and crazy when he sings LION and Water is Wild (With Brandon Lake) or Rattle (especially with Steven Furtick).

When I say Chris Brown, this is who I speak of

Joseph Lewis Thomas

Now, Joe was a beast.

“Mummy why are you pissed?” I heard my son ask.

“I’m not pissed sweetie” I said

“But I thought I heard you say you were pissed.”

That was when I realised that I had spoken my thoughts out loud.

I thought I had kept it in my mind.

“No, I actually said ‘Joe was a beast'” … And then more questions came like a flood.

But really, Joe was a beast. The good kind. The amazing kind. The one that sends chills all over you when you hear him sing.

Joe was proud and gutsy. He was bold, confident and certain.

For confident and certain… 😂… Yeah, I laugh. It’s what I do whenever I listen to All the things (your man won’t do).

Bold with his lyrics in What If A Woman… How many people would sing that?

Proud in Love Is a Game and Somebody’s Gotta Be On Top

Gutsy in Make You My Baby

Compassionate in I Wanna Know

I’ve been listening to his last album… It’s growing on me

I loved Joe then, I still love him now.

Taking a walk

The first time I heard the lyrics to the song Memory Lane by Haley Joelle, I immediately lined up all the people I had lost to death…the ones I miss so much…

After months and months of listening to the song again and again, gradually, living humans started to pop into my head when the song played.

With the living humans, I tweak the lyrics somewhat.

There are many people that come to mind, people I used to be with everyday and everytime…People who are no longer around me or available to reach very easily like they used to…

…Like today, I sent a photo from two years ago to my darling Nguvie and I immediately started to sing… 🎼🎶🎵I walk down memory lane, ’cause I love running in to you…

I realised, if I want to see them or be with them, I can just take a walk down memory lane, 🎼🎶🎵cos it’s the only place that I see them again🎵🎶🎼… whenever I want.

Mystery man

First things first, if you listen to my liked songs on Spotify, you’d give me the side eye… It’s filled with wierd music from amazing singer/songwriters. It turns out the amazing ones sing the wierd stuff.

That’s what has me writing today, amazing singer/song writer… JP Saxe.

The melancholy in all of his songs make you wonder if he has been through all the emotions and stories that falling/being in love and also falling out of love bring.

Sometimes I wonder if these songs come from his own experiences or a mix of the experiences of people around him. They feel too real.

His latest song “I don’t miss you” got me wondering… What the hell goes on in that Saxy head of yours JP? Who writes things like that?

No matter how messed up and crazy these songs are, they still got me hooked. On my best days they keep me company and heck, even on the worst days.

Beautiful Covers

Jessica is my 18 year old neighbour and we are friendly because we have a few things in common. One of which is playing loud music on our music box when we are doing household stuff.

One Saturday morning in January we were at the backyard at the same time doing a few chores so I decided to put my music off so that we could listen to hers.

I think I felt my heart leap when one particular song came on. I got a feeling of nostalgia so strong, I paused for a bit and then I spoke to Jessica;

Me: Wow, Jessica who did this cover?
Jessica: Noooooo. Not a cover, this is an original.
Me: No Jess, I know this song from over 20 years ago
Jessica : Maybe you are confusing it with another song.
Me: Give me a minute.

In just a few seconds I had searched and found George Michael ‘s One More Try for Jessica. I totally see why she may have assumed it was an original… Calum Scott really did it justice. I risk to say, maybe better than Michael.

I shared this with my niece and she said Scott was actually amazing with covers… I plan to explore this.

A few other covers have actually caught me breathless lately.

Hearing John Legend sing Sade’s By your side was really heart warming. I love to play them together – one after the other. I find myself trying to pick my favourite, but I can’t.

The latest discovery is Luke Comb’s go at Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car. It’s such a beautiful cover.

I’m going on a cover hunt… Any suggestions on something I might like?

LEGEND

My knowledge of John Legend and his songs used to be quite limited and then when lots of people wore out the song ‘all of me’, I didn’t even bother giving him a chance.

It wasn’t until a little over a year ago when I saw someone name him as one of the most under rated artists; immediately, the music part of my brain became curious. That was the beginning of my “affair” with Legend.

I feel as though his last album was a gift from him to me. As if he knew how his music had affected me and decided to make more for me.

The album has Twenty-Four songs, Twenty-Four…and every song is amazing.

Home is one song that really did me in. I don’t know why he wrote it or who he wrote it for, but whenever I listen to it, it warms my heart as I sing it to my son. It is the best song for a parent to a child. It is a beautiful song.

My next favourite is Wonder Woman, I had a thing or two to say about it in my post Wonder woman.

Nervous makes me nervous. It makes me feel. It gives me the same goose bumps I get when I hit the make up scene in a romcom.

Rounds, the very first song in the album. I laugh every time I listen. Naughty.

One Last Dance is so beautiful. I think it is possible to write a beautiful book from that one song.

Dope is so upbeat, whenever I want to dance a bit while I work, Dope is the choice I make from this album. Some other upbeat songs in the album are Waterslide, Guy Like Me and All She Wanna Do.

Now, Love is so mixed up for me, the toxic relationship that is sung about unsettles me, yet, the combination of voices between Legend and Jazmine Sullivan gets me playing it over and over again. He gives me the same feeling with Amber Mark in Fate; I am really curious about the song and the idea behind it.

Good makes me feel good.

Pieces gives me a feeling of melancholy.

A few others I enjoy are; Strawberry Blush, Honey, I Want You To Know, Speak In Tongues (with John Keith) and I Don’t Love You Like I Used To.

A few songs that are still growing on me are: Splash (feat. Jhnene Aiko & Ty Dolla $ign), You, Memories, The Other Ones (feat. Rapsody), Stardust.

I think John Legend is a legend.

…I forgot to mention…the album title is Legend

Wonder woman

When I listened to John Legend’s wonder woman for the first time, I thought of myself without any sense of modesty. I thought of my sisters and then my mom. By the 4th listen, I decided every man needed to dedicate the song to their good wives, significant others or moms.

My friend Helen is one of the women i think about whenever I listen to the song. She’s an amazing human. I’m very certain she has got some super power that I am not aware of. In the midst of all that she strives and reaches, she always takes the time to check up on me.

Why, Helen, why? She tells me I’m an amazing sister and she appreciates me. I am both thankful and flattered whenever she says this. On one of her lovely check ups, she shows up with a huge mug with the inscription “blessed” and hands it to me. We share a very long, warm hug and of course, we cry a bit.

Helen, you make me wonder, woman, how do you do it? You are super human.