yuna zarai

Back in the day when I used to look at lookbook.nu posts for street trends, I happened to end up on Yuna Zarai's lookbook account. Which is Totally Amaze, you guys. I love her style, maynnn, I aspire.* She also happens to co-own an online women's boutique called IAMJETFUEL which has some kayoot pieces. Her tumblr is/was great too, although it isn't open to the public anymore coz of drama.  BESIDES ALL OF THAT AWESOME THINGS, SHE. CAN. SING. yes.

I love her music. It's calming, makes my heart smile and brings me to tears sometimes when I'm all emo and like, she's writing parts of my life, you know?

Here are some of my favourites:

Decorate

 

So you decided to see me out of the blue
see me out of the blue
I’m all black and white inside
monotonous from left to right
I decorate my house with things you love
just in case you show up.

Live Your Life
(Produced by Pharrell Willams, y'all)

All my life
I've been looking for something amazing
It's almost like I've been stargazing
The sky is right above me

We
Were meant for something bigger than this
Don't ever try to dismiss
Yourself, cause you don't have to

Island

Open up your heart to me
We'll explore the seven seas
Sail away and find your dreams
And if you drown I'll help keep your head up
And if you drown I'll help keep your head up
to breath

Deeper Conversation

 Is your favourite colour blue?
and do you always tell the truth?
Do you believe in outerspace?
And I'm learning you

Blue Sands

Oh blue sands, will I ever get to marry my handsome friend?
Oh blue sands, can you make them understand?

Oh blue sands, I don't want to go up there and pretend
I'm okay

Lullabies

Like lullabies you are,
Forever in my mind.
I see you in all,
The pieces in my life.
Though you weren't mine,
you were my first love.

Random Awesome
(This is my favourite favourite)

No I don't know what is up with me
I laugh too much recently
No, They don't know much about us
When we're exchanging glances
They'll figure out one day, what happened on your 24th birthday

Here are three cover songs she did:

Kanye West's Paranoid

 

Nirvana's Come As You Are

And Frank Ocean's Thinkin Bout You

Please check her out :)


PS. she's been nominated in the MTV EMA 2012 awards so please vote for her here: http://asia.mtvema.com/artists/yuna

*one day, inshallah

song of the month: september 2012

The Naked and Famous - No Way, from their album Passive Me, Aggressive You.

So much love for this album lately.

song of the month: august 2012

oh my glob - IT'S AUGUST! this year went by wayy too fast for my liking. Do you ever feel like you need a hyperbolic time chamber to get things done? I feel like that daily weekly. But I digress.* The song for August is a remix of the lovely Florence Welsh's Spectrum (Say My Name)!. You've probably heard it before me**, whatever.  The awesome & goodlooking ( :) ) Calvin Harris does a brilliant remix of this song, I must've played it a million times the day I got it. Anyway, enough of me, here's the song:

Enjoy!




*I never get to use that sentence
**I was told it's old last month.

song/album of the month: july 2012

One of my all time favourite bands, Metric, released their album last month. And what an awesome album it is! This is the only music I have on my phone right now, that's how good it is.* It's called Synthetica and continues in the same vein as Fantasies - you know, electronicy** sounding. That's the album I first heard of them and made me fall in l o v e with this band of amazingness*** :). I chose The Void as song of the month because that song was basically written about me. But each and every one of the songs on this album are worthy of obsessive repeats, you guys. Do it.

*all my files were erased from SD card and I was too lazy to put everything back on. ha.
**totally a word.
***leave me alone.

the pros and cons of selling out as a {fashion student}

I finished an internship with a retail company today, and while I found the whole experience very informative and dare I say - FUN*, I began worrying about what I'd do next year.** So I made this list thingy***:

click for full resolution. if you want. i'm not telling you what to do, gawd.

of course, my other options are DO NOTHING, marry a very wealthy man I can bum off the rest of my life or continuing my studies by doing my BTech. I guess I'll leave that for another list thingy.

Also, if you're Muslim and you're reading this post - Ramadaan Kareem! :)


*also exhausting. going from waking up at 8 for college to 6.30 for work :/ being an adult is tiring!
**I graduate this year
***I got distracted while doing this & I was too lazy to finish it when I remembered what I was doing, so it is a bit incomplete.

Song of the Month: June 2012

You know how you have music on your PC that you never listen to? C'mon! You DID NOT listen to over 20000 songs ever, stop lying. Sigur Ros, sorry Sigur Rós, is part of my "music that I've never listened to but have on my PC". Okay, now I'm lying. I never had Sigur Rós on my PC. Except for this song that I'm going to make my song of the month. I admit, I have heard of Sigur Rós but never heard them. But this week, the band seem to pop up EVERYWHERE.* I took it as a sign that the universe would like me to listen to them. I always listen to the universe because the universe speaks only truth. Anyway. They weren't already in my vast music library so I wiki'd them. Read that Jónsi is the lead singer. "jon...si...I know that name!", is what I thought to myself. I searched Jónsi in my library and this track appeared:

Which is now my song of the month. Yes, it's a Tiesto, sorry Tiësto, song. No, I don't listen to any of his other songs.**

I find myself tripping on Jónsi's voice. It's beautiful. Jónsi is a guy. I don't know how to pronounce his name or band properly. I have listened to this song 50 times today. It feels like it's hugging me. I am in the process of getting Sigur Rós' other albums so that I become the BIGGEST FAN EVER.***


EDIT: I actually have Sigur Rós on my laptop already.

*tastekid, last.fm, twitter, Portlandia
**total lie. but like, shut up? I like what I like.
***music snobs, you may hate me now.

Song of the Month: March 2012

I was watching TV the other day and I heard a song by the Generationals playing in an advertisement. I don't remember what that commercial was about but it did make me remember how much I liked this song, SO I decided to make it March's song of the month.

The song is called Ten-Twenty-Ten and I'm ashamed to admit that I first heard it in that MTV show "Awkward"*. STOP JUDGING ME. I really like it, this song makes me tap my toes**. I currently have it playing on repeat in my ears. It makes me happy :) BTW I have one more week of college then 3 weeks of vaykay, YAY! That makes me happy too. If you like chilled indie rock, do yourself a HUGE favour and listen to this duo's latest album Actor-Caster. Thank me later.

*NOTHING about this show is awkward. It's like when the stupid people on facebook update their status about how awkward their mundane lives/dumb actions are. Not awkward you guys.
**The closest I'll ever get to dancing.