MUSIC

Even if I’m not a huge fan of Lorde, I obviously think she has a very beautiful voice and a charming way of singing. I don’t know if it’s possible for someone not to like her! I’m not a huge fan but sometimes I really fall in love with her music. I listened to “Team” hundreds of time and I still like it very much. “Perfect Places” is another beautiful song and I’m listening to it a lot. So far, summer has been a great season for music, also considering The Killers comeback and Lana Del Rey‘s new album.

In the video of “Perfect Places”, directed by Grant Singer, Lorde seems to be living (or vacationing) on a desert, well supplied island where she wears some beautiful designer clothes (her stylist is Karla Welch).

In the opening scene the singer wears Jacquemus and the brand’s signature s/s 2017 straw hat. Then she wears Vaquera, Valentino (for tea time), vintage Zandra Rhodes (on a boat) and some other beautiful dresses I havent’t identified (yet). My favorite look is definitely the one of the waterfall scene, when Lorde baths wearing a beautiful black ruffled dress.

One of the things I liked about “T2 Trainspotting” is the great soundtrack, which includes a song that I immediately loved, “Silk” by Wolf Alice. The English band is going to release a new album, titled “Visions Of A Life” and I already love the first two songs available, “Don’t Delete The Kisses” and “Yuk Foo”, so this week there’re two songs of the week because I like them both and I didn’t want to choose only one.

“Don’t Delete The Kisses” is a beautiful and sweet song, more softly spoken than sung, and it’s about love and how we probably never change our approach to it. “I look at your picture and I smile / How awful’s that? / I’m like a teenage girl / I might as well write on my notebook / That you rock my world”. We’ve all been through it, which makes this song even more adorable.

“Yuk Foo” is a completely different song. As Sam Richards wrote for The Guardian, it’s a “thrilling, two minute surge of self-indulgent punk fury”. And Ellie Rowsell’s laugh at minute 1:26… I love it, what a cool girl! This is such a powerful song. I’m so looking forward to listening to the rest of the album, who will be released on September, 29.

Lana is back and she’s cooler than ever. I read this comment on Youtube, under one of her recent videos. Who wrote it was totally right. I love Lana Del Rey since I listened for the first time to “Born To Die”, realizing it was by the same singer of “Video Games”. Now, she’s one of my favorite singers and I truly believe she can sing everything and still sounds incredibly charming while other singers would easily turn out to be tacky and vulgar.

I love Lana Del Rey music because it’s kind of timeless and melancholic, very unique. “Love” and “Lust For Life” are already among my favorite songs of this summer and “Summer Bummer” could join the list (so many great songs this season!). I hope to see her live, sooner or later (sooner would be better).

This week I picked “The Man” by The Killers because besides the fact that I really like this band, I think Brandon Flowers is one of the most stylish men alive. I’ve always liked his style and I find him very handsome. In the video of “The Man” he’s at his best.

Flowers sports many outfits in the video and, as usual, he rocks them all! I have a thing for men in tuxedo and I’ve always thought that very few men can pull off the tank top, which I find totally unpolished on most of the male population of the world. Well, the singer looks great even with a white tank top. What a man! Enjoy the video.

I’ve always loved Garbage’s music and Shirley Manson is one of my favorite singers. And such a cool woman! Garbage’s videos are always interesting to see because Manson sports great looks. I should probably dedicate a post to Garbage’s most stylish videos and the Scottish singer is probably the reason why I now love white shoes.

“Big Bright World” is a beautiful song, but for some reason it wasn’t one of Garbage’s songs I usually listened to. Until some weeks ago I didn’t even remember the video. Shirley Manson wears a cool, black dress, I love the tulle details of its straps. What I like about her is that she can look like a dark femme fatale and a super cool woman, dressed in (more or less) colorful clothes, too.

I admit that when it comes to music (and food) I’m a creature of habit. But I’ve decided to try to be more open-minded and to listen to something new. Youtube must have understood this because recently it’s suggesting me some interesting artists and among them there’re The 1975.

So this week I chose “Robbers”, which I find a very beautiful song. It’s from The 1975 self-titled debut album, released in 2013. The video is a bit explicit, for what it means nowadays, and it’s quite stylish, the female protagonist wears some interesting clothes. A leopard shirt with red pants and black booties… quite inspiring. And Matthew Healys’s floral shirt… not bad at all. The concept of the video is inspired by “True Romance”, a 1993 film directed by Tony Scott, starring Patricia Arquette and Christian Slater.

I’m not trying to promote anything else but the music I like, here, but the band’s merchandising is pretty cool, most of all the denim section. Take a look at this embroidered denim jacket.

I’ve always been a fan of Placebo since I listened to them for the first time, back in… I don’t remember when! “Life’s What You Make It” is the title of their new album which contains six songs, three of which are covers, included “Life’s What You Make It”, a 1985 Talk Talk’s song.

The video is anything but stylish, but pretty powerful, so please watch it. I admit I found it so sad that at first I only listened to the song, but then I watched it from the beginning till the end and I really appreciated its message.

I found the video of “American Money” by chance (again!). I think I never listened to BØRNS before, maybe I just distractedly heard a couple of songs at the radio or somewhere else. So ok, shame on me, I basically knew about BØRNS for being one of Gucci’s favorites.

And there’s a lot of Gucci in “American Money” and this makes it a very stylish video (which of course it’s plus) but really, I love the song. It has a vintage vibe that I like so much, it’s relaxing in a cool way. I love the intro and the lyrics, “and we can run away, swimming in the sunlight everyday”… it’s so poetic!

The first time I saw “Criminal” I thought I wanted to live in that video (the house is beautiful and people seem to have fun, there) and that Fiona Apple was the coolest girl on earth. I don’t know how many times I listened to this song and watched the video. I still like it so much!

“Criminal” is one of the songs from Fiona Apple’s debut album “Tidal”. The video was directed by Mark Romanek and it caused some controversy. I think she was 19 at that time and the video was considered too raunchy. Fiona looks pretty stylish (she has beautiful lingerie!) and, since the ’90s are back, she wears some items that now are very popular, like slides.

This song, “Thunder”, kinds of put me in a good mood. I really like Imagine Dragons and I’d love to see them live, one day. Right now, this is one of my favorite songs. I listen to it many times a day, because it gets a lot of airplay, at least by my favorite radio. And the more I listen to it, the more I like it!

The video is pretty weird, there’s no doubt, so you may not like it, but the song is great. Shot in Dubai and directed by Joseph Kahn, who directed many amazing (and stylish) music videos, it shows Imagine Dragons playing it cool in front of very flexible aliens, which have a pretty interesting style, to be honest. Look at the black ensemble of one of the aliens, I love those pants!

I hope you liked this song!