That's Christmas To Me (Deluxe Edition)

Hello everybody and welcome back.  This week, I am taking you through a Christmas album, but only in the spirit of Christmas.  I am listening to That's Christmas To Me by Pentatonix.  It is their deluxe Christmas album and it is amazing.  If you don't know who they are, they are an a capella group with only five members.  It is a very difficult task to do a capella with only five people. Because this is a capella, I am not going to be talking about the lyrics, but more about the arrangement of the voices and songs. Let's go.

1.  Hark the Herald Angels Sing

I love this take on the song.  They make this song very modern with the bass and the beatboxing.  The harmonies and tempo of the song are faster than the original, yet they make it work.

2.  White Winter Hymnal

This song has everything in it.  It has the beatboxing, the four part harmony, and even clapping and hitting.  The clapping and hitting is actually a very difficult thing to do.  You need to have the coordination to do both at the same time.

3.  Sleigh Ride

This song has a very modern spin on it as well.  The beat/bass of the song is very mello.  The honestly didn't get to far away from the original composition, yet it is a better set up than the original.

4.  Winter Wonderland/Don't Worry Be Happy ft. Tori Kelly

The mash up of these two songs are not something that many people could think of.  You would never even think that the two songs go together, yet the composition of the two are amazingly put together.  It just shows that almost all songs are able to be put together to make an amazing mashup.

5.  That's Christmas To Me

This song is an original song that they wrote and composed.  It's lyrics all have some meaning to every person in the group.  It is also a five part harmony instead of having a beat behind it.  Each member gets their own part to sing as a solo, except for Kevin, who is normally the beatboxer.  In the video, they look back to childhood memories of Christmas time.  It show's the home video's that their parents took.

6.  Mary, Did You Know?

This song is quite a personal song to me.  Me and my mom love to sing this during the holiday season.  There is a four part harmony in this song and they even had Kevin singing in this one.  This song is very special to me because it is special to my mom.  I love to listen to it and hear the harmonies and beat mix perfectly together.

7.  Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

There are no words in this song, so it is an amazing match up for an acapella group.  The mix of all of the harmonies of sounds are perfectly in sync and they mix well with the bass and beat.  It is quite difficult to fill a room with music and have no words when your considered a pop group, yet they executed this flawlessly.


This was just a snippet of the whole deluxe album.  If you want to hear more, I invite you to listen to the whole album.  Thank you for reading and I will see you next time.


I also added four of the music video's to the bottom if you wanted to watch them.

Love Drunk

This week, I am going to be listening to 'Love Drunk' by the band Boys Like Girls.  This album was released on September 7, 2009.  This album has 11 songs on it.  It also reached 8 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and number 1 on U.S. Billboard Top Rock Albums charts.  It was very well praised in it's time, so lets get into these songs.


1.  Heart Heart Breaker

This song is about heartbreak, obviously.  It is this person who is mad about what is happening to their relationship, yet he knows that she doesn't care what happens.  She is already out of the door, wanting to end everything.  He knows that he shouldn't care, but he cannot stop.

2.  Love Drunk

This song is about a hard breakup.  This person is drunk on love and they ended it in some terrible way.  They are going through the memories of this relationship like it they are drunk, but after thinking about them, they become hungover with the feeling.

3.  She's Got a Boyfriend Now

This song is about a girl that he had a crush on when they were teenagers.  He has recently seen her and met with her, noticing that he still has the same feelings from their teenage years.  He wants to have some sort of relationship with her, but he finds out that she has a boyfriend.

4.  Two Is Better Than One ft. Taylor Swift

This song is about a relationship.  They are trying to get this relationship to work.  He is reminiscing on the times that they had together.  In reality, it is quite a rocky relationship that is starting to not work out.

5.  Contagious

This song is about a boy that is crazy in love with somebody.  He never wants to lose her and he feels so many emotions when he is with her.  He feels like he cannot live without her.

So these were the songs that I listened to on the album, and I encourage you to listen to the rest.  This one was quite fun to listen to because I remember some of these songs from 2009 radio.  Thank you for reading and I will see you next week.

Blue Neighborhood

Hello everybody.  So today, I am going to be reacting to this album a little bit differently.  The writer of the album actually had a video trilogy from the EP and the new album.  His name is Troye Sivan Mellet, but he goes by Troye Sivan on stage and on YouTube.  He has a combination of over 4.5 million subscribers on YouTube.  His newest album is named 'Blue Neighborhood'.  It sounds like a fun new type of music that I am very excited to listen to.


1.  Wild

This song pertains to forbidden love.  Revolving around this concept is quite a cute in a sense that he is referring to living in a suburban and jewish neighborhood.  He has this feeling that to be who he is is wrong and that he needs to hide it.

2.  Bite

This song is talking about being hurt in the past.  He is asking his newfound partner to be careful with him and to not 'Bite".  He is asking them to not hurt him.

3.  Fools

This song is pretty much summed up by another song.  It is the song I looked at last week called 'Damned If I Do Ya. Damned If I Don't'.  He is saying that he was a fool for letting this person go, yet he did it for a reason.

4. Ease (feat. Brood

This sing is about his family.  He travles a lot for his job, which puts his famliy in this state of panic.  He is telling them that they can calm down and that he is going to be ok.  He is trying to put his family at 'Ease' with this song.

5.  The Quiet

He is talking about another relationship.  He want's his partner to just speak up and tell him what they are feeling.  He wants there to be something other than silence between them.

6. DKLA (feat. Tkay Maidza)

This song stands for 'Don't Keep Love Around'.  It is pretty self explanitory once you know the title.  He doesn't want to keep any sort of love in his life, because it all ends up with him hurting.

These are the first six songs of the album.  They are also from his EP for this album called Wild.  If you want to know the rest of the story, I suggest you go and listen to the rest of the album.  I will see you next week.

Nothing Personal

Hello again.  Today is quite a special day.  This album is actually the only album from this artists list that I haven't listened to in full.  This is a very rare occasion and I would love to enjoy it with everybody who reads it.  So, this week I have decided to review 'Nothing Personal' by All Time Low. They are an amazing band, on their records and live.  This album was released on July 7, 2009.  This album seems like it is going to be fun, yet very short with only 12 songs.  Lets go on this fun and musical journey together, shall we? (WARNING: Song's include swearing if you listen to them.)

1.  Weightless

This song is your own interpretations.  You can take any of these lyrics and put down what you think is right for you.  For me, I think that it is talking about my school life.  It says things like '

2.  Break Your Little Heart

This is plain and simple a break up song.  The writer/singer is pretty much putting up the middle finger to their ex.  The lyrics 'you were fake, I was great' are pretty much pointing to the ex.  He is saying that the ex was nothing to him and that what they had was pretty much a joke.

3.  Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don't)

This song is about a rocky relationship.  He doesn't want to stay because things aren't going the way that he planned them to.  On the other hand, he loves her and he cannot leave her.  He is very conflicted on what he should do.

4.  Lost In Stereo

This song is about a girl.  She is at this club having the time of her life, but every guy wants to be with her.  She doesn't want to be with any of them because she is 'Lost in Stereo'

5.  Stella

This song is about a drink named Stella Artois.  He is talking about falling in love alone, meaning black out drunk.  Also, saying things like 'losing myself in a chemical moment,' signal to his drinking and alcohol intake.  He want's to give up this so called 'Stella' but he keeps coming back for more.

6. Sick Little Games

When you travel for things like music, you meet people.  These people can either end up being your best most trusted friend or they can end up being fake.  This is talking about the fake people who like to play their 'Sick Little Games' on you and that I need to 'get away' from it all.

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So that is a little snippet of my interpretation of the album.  If you want to interpret the rest, I suggest you listen to the album.  Thanks for reading and I will see you next week.

Take the Poll

I have decided to let other people choose albums for me.  I want everybody who reads this to vote on a random title up at the top of the screen.  There are four choices.  I chose not to include artists, so just choose at random.  Thank you.

A Fever You Can't Sweat Out

Hello world and all who inhabit it.  *wink wink*  Today is going to be a fun post for me.  I have recently started to get into Panic! At the Disco and their sound is amazing.  This weeks album is 'A Fever You Can't Sweat Out'.  This album was released on September 27, 2005.  This album is over a decade old and I am really excited to share it with you.

Track-By-Track

1.  Introduction

This song is not even really a song.  It is 0:36 seconds and it is mostly back ground noise.  The background noise is mixed with an actual introduction that smoothly moves into the next song.  It does work with every song on the album too.  If you were to shuffle it and it started with this beginning, its transition is clean and precise.   0:36

2.  The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide is Press Coverage

This song is very confusing.  First off, the title of the song is very misleading.  The title is not a traditional title in the sense that it does not have any of the title words in the song.  The title has a whole other meaning to it than the actual song, yet they are connected.  The song itself is presenting itself as an introduction to the whole of the album.  It is saying that he is prepared to tell the audience the stories.  The title, on the other hand, is saying that media will tell their stories however they want just to get the views they crave.  There is a difference between suicide and martyrdom, yet the media are willing to twist their words to create a story that will be viewed and talked about.  2:54

3.  London Beckoned Songs About Money Written By Machines

This song is actually very relevant to today's social standards.  The song is telling you to take a chance to be yourself.  The media is very critical and people in general are quick to judge.  They give us names and label us based on the bands that we like and the way we dress.  People don't understand what that can do, yet they keep doing it.  The title is also playing part into the message.  London beckoning is a symbol for the media and the 'Songs About Money Written By Machines'  is people and social medias asking and creating labels and titles about who you are and the things you love and write about.  3:23

4.  Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks

This song is pretty much questioning the universe.  There is this man or women that is residing in a hospice at the time.  They are either mentally unstable or suicidal and they are questioning things like why they want to die.  They don't know if they want to blame themselves or if they want to blame God or other things like that.  The nails and tacks are symbols for wanting to be gone in a way.  3:23

5.  Camisado

This song ties into the last song.  It begins with a he/she in a hospital bed.  This time it is clear that they are suicidal.  One of the lyrics say that they have made the 'ICU hall of fame' because they have been there for so long and so many times.   3:11

6.  Time to Dance

There is this book called Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk.  This entire song is based on that book.  There are exact lines from the book that are in this song.  Other phrases in this song are illusions to the book.  'Shotgun Wedding' is an illusion to the shooting that takes place in the book.  I personally have never read this book, but I will definitely check it out after this is done.  3:22

7.  Lying Is The Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off

This song is about cheating.  There was a girl that cheated on her boyfriend and throughout this song he is wondering if it was worth it.  If it was worth cheating on him and if she will ever find somebody better than him.  He wants her to really look at the man that she cheated on him with and tell him that the man was worth cheating on him for.  3:20

8.  Intermission

This song is actually an intermission from words and other music.  There is only one line in this whole song.  It goes from electronic music to this more futuristic classical twist.  Once the classical part is over with, just like 'Introduction', it has a very smooth and clean transition between the songs on the album.  2:35

9.  But It's Better If You Do

This song is about a man that gets turned down by this lady that he loves.  She is telling him that he is not man enough for her.  He decides to go to a gentleman's club to show her that he is not.  It was probably not a very good idea to do that on his part.  3:25

10.  I Write Sins Not Tragedies

This song is probably my all time favorite and the only reason I have heard it before is because of the radio play it got when it first came out.  This song can be interpreted in many different ways.  You have the freedom to decide how to take it.  What I believe it is talking about is that the soon to be wife is cheating on her soon to be husband.  This song also reeks of sarcasm and audited which is well deserved.  3:06

11.  I Constantly Thank God for Esteban

This is tied to the last song.  It is still taking place in the church, but it is when they are up at the alter.  The groom goes to front of the church and starts to chew out everybody that showed up to the wedding and knew that the bride was doing this to him.  3:30

12.  There's a Good Reason These Table are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of It Yet

This song is about this person that went to a fancy gathering.  They look under-dressed and everybody else in the place looks wonderful and they look stunning because of there confidence.  The title is very long, yet it fits with the song.  In the song they mention that there are cigarettes on the table and that they are laced with a type of poison.  That is the reason that the tables are numbered.  3:16

13.  Build God, Then We'll Talk

This is talking about taking somebodies innocence without there consent.  The mention of girls in white dresses is saying that there is something innocent about this person.  The cockroaches are signifying the person in power that is taking advantage of the person.  It is quite a hard one to interpret unless you have the lyrics right in front of you face.  3:40

This whole album has thirteen stories embedded into it.  There are a couple that are put together and are a continuation of the last song. Over all this album was amazing and the compositions were well placed and very well thought out.  There was a perfect mixture of the classical and electronic genre's.   It was fun to listen to this for the first time and I hope by next time, I will have the embedding for music clips adjusted so that it works.  Enjoy and I will be back next week.