As predicted, today is a good day.
Little Mix - DNA
Little Mix - DNA
Girls Aloud - Something New
Shame about the llama*...but what can you do?
*see previous post
#prancingthroughpop
Friday 19 October 2012
Thursday 18 October 2012
Tomorrow...
Tomorrow is a very special day. Tomorrow reality TV's oldest and newest girl groups will release the video accompaniments to their latest can't-get-you-out-of-my-head tunes. Tomorrow both Little Mix and Girls Aloud will release the mini motion pictures for their singles DNA and Something New...and, as the less than 24 hour wait still seems unbearably long, I thought I'd come up with a few suggestions as to what they may have in store for us.
DNA - For those of you who haven't heard it, DNA, is a pop enthusiast's dream. With its mind-invading chorus, possessed vocals and heart monitor effect - what more could you want from a pop song? It is so good actually that it might make Little Mix the first ever X Factor alumni to have three consecutive No.1 singles. Bonkers. Subsequently, said song deserves an equally awesome video, one which includes 4 if not 5 of the following...
1. The make up/choreography must be as cool, if not cooler, than that of the girls' performance of E.T. - come on, it inspired the song.
2. The guy/guys that the girls are obsessed with must be out-of-this-world attractive. If they're obsessed with him/them, we must be too.
3. Leigh-Anne must look ugly-pretty psycho throughout her rap break down...actually all of the girls should look ugly-pretty psycho for pretty much the whole video but Leigh-Anne, especially so, because she's cool like that.
4. We have to imagine Simon Cowell watching it for the first time and saying 'I didn't like it...I loved it.'
5. It should feature a llama.
Something New - Something New marks Girls Aloud's first single in like forever. It is their 10 year anniversary single and it is one corker of a pop tune. It somehow manages to sound both modern and traditional GA at the same time. It is incredible. Now usually, Girls Aloud videos are somewhat lovably naff in comparison to their songs - except Sexy! No No No... that video rocks - but, if the promo for the Something New video is anything to go by, the girls have something special up their sleeves and, as a result, I am hoping for...
1. Lots of shots of those LTDs - the Little Tangerine Dresses they sport below.
2. A sense of unity between the girls - Nadine and Cheryl must appear to be BFFs in spite of tabloid dross.
3. Some underlying theme - even if it's just - we're the baddest bitches in town and no-one can touch us.
4. Nicola dancing to the Beat Of [Her] Drum.
5. A routine that I can learn off by heart and whack out on command, in the club, after a few bevvies.
4. Nicola dancing to the Beat Of [Her] Drum.
5. A routine that I can learn off by heart and whack out on command, in the club, after a few bevvies.
Friday the 19th of October 2012 is going to be a good day.
#prancingthroughpop
Friday 12 October 2012
#prancingthroughlife
I haven't blogged for two months and I feel bad.
I feel bad because firstly I possess a lonely, neglected blog, which is slowly fading into cyberspace like Jack fades into the water at the end of Titanic (actually he does that pretty quickly but never mind) and I feel bad because, having blogged for the past year and a half, I am now having blog-related withdrawal symptoms. In the eighteen odd months since I started blogging, blogging has become somewhat psychologically programmed into my psyche and now, without it, I am lost. I am Jack fading into the water in Titanic. Ahhhhh!
A year and a half ago, when I started the blog Fashion, Life & All That Is In Between I thought that blogging would propel me into cyber stardom. I thought that within a few months I would be the next big thing in blogging - a male Tavi Gevinson, a British Bryan Boy. Fashion blogging would propel me into the limelight and I would milk the rewards. Jazz hands, tap dance, the whole shebang.
A year and a half down the line though and that hasn't exactly happened. My blog has received relative success, whoop, but it's not as if I am now fashion's new 'bright young thing'...or anyone's for that matter. I am still a teenage boy. I am still a teenage boy with hopes and dreams that are yet to be fulfilled.
However, this is not necessarily a bad thing. In the intervening time since starting Fashion, Life & All That Is In Between, whilst I have not become an internet sensation over night, Vogue columnist, Britain's Next Top Model, or all of the above, I have grown up.
I now know far more about fashion than I ever did before. I know my Christopher Kane from my Calvin Klein and I know my Jordan Dunn from my Joan Smalls. I may not have written any in depth posts about Adrien Sahores, as I suggested I would in my first ever (still published) blog post, but I now know some of the designer's he's worked for (Prada, DSquared2, the label formerly known as Yves Saint Laurent) and, after a year and a half, it has to be said, he's still pretty cute.
But secondly and perhaps most importantly, I have matured. In the year and a half, since I started blogging, I have done AS levels, been to Uganda, applied to university, moved house six times, done A levels, finished school, worked in a cafe, eaten my body-weight in chocolate, gone through a month of listening to little other than Madonna, seen Lady GaGa at Twickenham and somehow ended up as a student at Edinburgh University. In a year and a half I have - pardon the cheese - lived.
And that living got me thinking - when life is as stressful as it often is - why make life more stressful with a formatted blog? Why not write a blog without a format? A blog in which I can document whatever I want, whenever I want: music blurbs, fashion rants, pseudo-intelligent ponderings, videos of me and my friends dancing to Kate Bush - yes I do do this on occasion.
Fashion journalism and editing is still a career path I wish to take, as you'll see via the means of this blog, and Fashion, Life & All That Is In Between, if/when I return to it now and again, it's just that, in a world of seriousness, I'd like to write a blog which is a little less so. I'd like to write something in which I can be me, 100% - flaws and all.
And so I shall - via the means of this blog, I shall present me and all my weirdness to cyberspace. I shall prance through life and take you along with me - for better or worse, till something major do us part.
xoxo
Sam Prance
#prancingthroughlife
NB - The logo was designed by my favorite pair of identical twins: Livi and Ella Prendergast. Livi put together the font and came up with the name, whilst Ella transposed my face into gold sequins. When I rule the world everyone will have a picture of their face transposed into gold sequins.
I feel bad because firstly I possess a lonely, neglected blog, which is slowly fading into cyberspace like Jack fades into the water at the end of Titanic (actually he does that pretty quickly but never mind) and I feel bad because, having blogged for the past year and a half, I am now having blog-related withdrawal symptoms. In the eighteen odd months since I started blogging, blogging has become somewhat psychologically programmed into my psyche and now, without it, I am lost. I am Jack fading into the water in Titanic. Ahhhhh!
*cue Celine Dion*
A year and a half ago, when I started the blog Fashion, Life & All That Is In Between I thought that blogging would propel me into cyber stardom. I thought that within a few months I would be the next big thing in blogging - a male Tavi Gevinson, a British Bryan Boy. Fashion blogging would propel me into the limelight and I would milk the rewards. Jazz hands, tap dance, the whole shebang.
A year and a half down the line though and that hasn't exactly happened. My blog has received relative success, whoop, but it's not as if I am now fashion's new 'bright young thing'...or anyone's for that matter. I am still a teenage boy. I am still a teenage boy with hopes and dreams that are yet to be fulfilled.
However, this is not necessarily a bad thing. In the intervening time since starting Fashion, Life & All That Is In Between, whilst I have not become an internet sensation over night, Vogue columnist, Britain's Next Top Model, or all of the above, I have grown up.
I now know far more about fashion than I ever did before. I know my Christopher Kane from my Calvin Klein and I know my Jordan Dunn from my Joan Smalls. I may not have written any in depth posts about Adrien Sahores, as I suggested I would in my first ever (still published) blog post, but I now know some of the designer's he's worked for (Prada, DSquared2, the label formerly known as Yves Saint Laurent) and, after a year and a half, it has to be said, he's still pretty cute.
*sigh*
But secondly and perhaps most importantly, I have matured. In the year and a half, since I started blogging, I have done AS levels, been to Uganda, applied to university, moved house six times, done A levels, finished school, worked in a cafe, eaten my body-weight in chocolate, gone through a month of listening to little other than Madonna, seen Lady GaGa at Twickenham and somehow ended up as a student at Edinburgh University. In a year and a half I have - pardon the cheese - lived.
And that living got me thinking - when life is as stressful as it often is - why make life more stressful with a formatted blog? Why not write a blog without a format? A blog in which I can document whatever I want, whenever I want: music blurbs, fashion rants, pseudo-intelligent ponderings, videos of me and my friends dancing to Kate Bush - yes I do do this on occasion.
Fashion journalism and editing is still a career path I wish to take, as you'll see via the means of this blog, and Fashion, Life & All That Is In Between, if/when I return to it now and again, it's just that, in a world of seriousness, I'd like to write a blog which is a little less so. I'd like to write something in which I can be me, 100% - flaws and all.
And so I shall - via the means of this blog, I shall present me and all my weirdness to cyberspace. I shall prance through life and take you along with me - for better or worse, till something major do us part.
xoxo
Sam Prance
#prancingthroughlife
NB - The logo was designed by my favorite pair of identical twins: Livi and Ella Prendergast. Livi put together the font and came up with the name, whilst Ella transposed my face into gold sequins. When I rule the world everyone will have a picture of their face transposed into gold sequins.
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