Hello #MusicMonday… What am I listening to this week?

Hola, Amigos!

I am one of those women who wear headphones to avoid people. Although, with wireless headphones, that’s now a little harder to do without pretending like you’re just deaf altogether. So… my kids are older, grown, or moved out, and I spend most of my days alone, cleaning, writing, and cleaning some more. I spend many hours a day with headphones in my head and a Google music subscription that allows me to listen to basically whatever fancies my mood.

Music genres vary for me depending on how I’m feeling or what I’m writing. I do lean towards the alternative side of the spectrum for the most part but I do dabble in just about everything else as well at times.

Here are my top five songs I find myself replaying this week –

Blue October, I Hope You’re Happy

I adore this band and have for years. I’ve seen them live two or three times over the years and just can’t get enough of them. They were amazing when they were dark and depressing and they’re amazing now that they’re sober and inspiring. This song is SO unlike their others, but still awesome. It’s almost 80’s-ish. It’s on their new album coming in August (which I preordered weeks ago). Plus, I’m like, totally in love with Justin Furstenfeld (I almost touched him once!), so he could sing me the freaking dictionary and I’d probably swoon. Yes, please.

Foo Fighters, All My Life

I love Foo Fighters in general so just about any of their songs could go here, any day of the week, no matter what my mood is, I’ll always replay the Foo.

James Bay, Pink Lemonade

I’d never heard of this guy until last week when Google suggested him. I may or may not have listened to this song on repeat for two days. I absolutely love it and I’m not even sick of it yet. And… look at that shirt?! Wowsers!

Michael Ray, Her World or Mine

I’m not the biggest country fan out there, although if you knew me in high school, I kinda was (I wore the lacer boots, went to the country concerts, was totally into the whole wrangler butts thing… so, yeah). But, this song is so incredibly sweet and he’s pretty cute, I wouldn’t complain if he wanted to sing to me.

Coldplay, Everglow

That’s right, I’m nearly 40. (Isn’t liking Coldplay a dead giveaway you’re middle-aged? Kind of like still being into The Beastie Boys? (which I still am))I love Coldplay and I absolutely am mesmerized by rock/alternative music that has piano or symphony bits and this song is just gorgeous and the lyrics are beautiful as well.

That’s it for this week. Come back next week for five new tunes straight from my ‘love it’ playlist.

What’s a song you’re crushing on this week?

(Comment below & I’ll check it out!)

-Aimee