#and I HAD to put Ruby by Kaiser Chiefs. I had to

[trislovescats]

Kaelyn Jun's playlist

( MC from @lacunafiction )

i. weaker girl — banks

ii. nightmare — halsey

iii. cop car — mitski

iv. brutal — olivia rodrigo

v. thank you (feat. raye) — pvris

vi. last laugh — fletcher

vii. nightmare — pvris

viii. bad girl — daya

ix. fools — troye sivan

x. crushcrushcrush — paramore

xi. ruby — kaiser chiefs

xii. wilson (expensive mistakes) — fall out boy

[strwbi-laces]

Interview Music Tag Game

i love this ideaaa, tagged by @courfee <33

RULES: Put your playlist on shuffle. For each of the 10 interview questions, select a lyric from the random song that comes up (skip if there aren’t any lyrics and make sure to drop the name of the song in your interview answer).

1. First off, how would you describe yourself in one sentence?

I ask her to speak french then I need her to translate. I get the feeling she makes the meaning more significant.

The sea is a good place to think of the future - los campesinos (there are definitely other lyrics i could use but im choosing not to)

2. What kind of [insert zodiac sign] are you?

I'm the one who makes you laugh when you know you're about to cry.

You belong with me - Taylor Swift

3. You’re visiting your favourite spot, what are you thinking about?

choose to run away with me

Mary on a cross - ghost

4. If your life was a movie, what do you think the first review would say about it?

I rose above the noise and confusion, just to get a glimpse behind this illusion

Carry on my wayward son - Kansas (this was hard, nothing really fits)

5. Say you get a book deal, what are you titling your memoir?

Bleached persona

Acetone - vundabar

6. What would you say about your best friends?

I've read all the books beside your bed

Paper Rings - Taylor Swift (this whole song!!!)

7. Think back to when you had everything all figured out in high school, what was your life motto as a teenager?

I don't care, I want you here. As long as your happy I don't care.

Losing Face - Wilbur soot (im still there but we're going younger me)

8. Describe your aesthetic now:

On sunny days I go out walking, I end up on a tree lined street, I look up through the gaps of sunlight, I miss you more than anything

Francis Forever - Mitski

9. What’s a lyric that they’ll quote in your eulogy?

I will not ask you why you were creeping, in some sad way I already know

Like real people do - Hozier

10. And for our final question, say we believe in soulmates, what do you think their first impression of meeting you will be?

Could it be, could it be, that your joking with me and you don't really see you and me?

Ruby - Kaiser Chiefs

Tags: @plecotusauritus @moonagebooklover @definitelynotttheo and everyone else!!

[esotheria-sims]

URL Music Tag

I got tagged for what is basically one of my fave tag games by @blackswan-sims just yesterday, which reminded me that I also had a tag for the same meme pending from @episims from way back, so I’m doing both now (with apologies to Epi for the huge delay :’D)

Rules: Spell out your URL with song titles and tag people.

As always, I’m going to put a little spin on things so as not to make it boring. This time, I’ll only be using songs that come up on this rando radio station I’m currently listening to (ofc, only if the given song’s title corresponds to one of the letters in my URL).

E - Elegantly Wasted - Inxs

S - Summer In The City - Joe Cocker

O - One Step Closer - Linkin Park

T -  Then The Night Comes - Billy Idol

H - Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran

E - Easy Like Sunday Morning - Faith no more

R - Ruby - Kaiser Chiefs

I - I Want To Break Free - Queen

A - Anybody Seen My Baby - The Rolling Stones

S - Stupid Girl - Garbage

I - I Fought The Law - The Clash

M - Mr Cab Driver - Lenny Kravitz

S - Suicide Blonde - Inxs

I’m tagging: @frauhupfner, @hazelpuff, @luverofralts, @rurpleplayssims, @pixeldolly, @lilleputtu, @equinoxts2, and @goatskickin - ​but of course, feel free to ignore if you’ve already done the meme or simply don’t feel like doing it! ^^ Likewise, anyone who sees this post wants to join in, consider yourself tagged! ^^

[remade-at-scorpioqifrey]

For music rec : Deleter by grouplove , take me there by potsu (lo-fi stuff), ruby by kaisers chief

ok first of all im super sorry this took me this long to answer but its 100% bc i wanted to sit down and listen to these songs before i answered this!

so about them:

Deleter - Grouplove: Anthem!!! i love this song sooo much!!! its weird enough for the moments when the worms in my brain take over but also catchy enough to just put it on someones bday playlist - just an all around fun song:D

take me there - potsu: i really like their stuff! i had a few of their songs in my playlist already and now i got to add this thx a lot for the rec^^

ruby - kaisers chief: what a blast from the past....this really takes me back to some undefined time in a summer of my childhood somewhere on holiday:) its always so hard to find songs u listened to when u were little bc u didnt speak english yet and so u can search up any lyrics only stuff like song that goes uhh ahh uheaa and hope for the best:D still looking for some lesser know childhood faves:))

thank u soooooo much for sending them!!! i always love (re)discovering music so pls always feel free to rec me stuff or just ask me about songs i enjoy at the moment or smth i really love talking about music^_^

[rickywilson]

Ricky Wilson’s 5-bed Cornwall home is for sale

The Kaiser Chiefs frontman thought his rock’n’roll days were almost over when he bought this bolthole. The band is back in the charts and he’s selling up for £1.5m, says Hugh Graham.

Ricky Wilson is all grown up. The lead singer of Kaiser Chiefs emerged in the early Noughties with the rabble-rousing hits I Predict a Riot and Ruby, and backed them up with raucous stage antics: crowdsurfing, climbing scaffolding and high kicks. (He broke both ankles at one gig.) Critics dubbed the band heirs to Madness; he even had a feud with Oasis. All very rock’n’roll. For his efforts, Kaiser Chiefs have scored seven Top 10 albums; Wilson, 42, also spent three years as a judge on the TV talent show The Voice.

Yet Stratton House, his Regency pile in Falmouth, is not very rock’n’roll at all. The five-bedroom home is done up in William Morris-esque floral wallpaper, and dotted with antiques, family heirlooms and Persian rugs. “When it comes to decor, I don’t have rock-star tendencies,” Wilson says. “I don’t have chandeliers made of saxophones or a breakfast bar made out of a Chevy. I’d rather sit in a wingback chair.”

There is one item, however, that screams rock star. In the front hall, amid the cornices and columns, is a motorcycle. “I’ve never ridden it,” the singer confesses. “I’m terrified of motorcycles. I’ve taken the test twice and failed due to my inability to turn left. But it’s a thing of beauty. It’s a replica of the one Steve McQueen had in The Great Escape. I use it to dry tea towels on.”

Wilson has embraced domesticity. He bought the house in 2012, two years after stumbling across Falmouth by accident. His Turkish holiday had been cancelled when the ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano halted his flight, so he and his girlfriend at the time got in a car and drove west.

“We found a last-minute cottage in Falmouth. I walked into town to buy some bread and milk, and I had this intense feeling that I could live here. I instantly felt comfortable. You only have those moments a few times in your life — I’m a great believer that you have to jump on those feelings.”

Stratton House captured his imagination because, he says, it’s one of the few houses in Falmouth that faces the sea, rather than the river. Wilson, who grew up in Leeds, says he’s always yearned for the sea. “In the winter, I like to close the shutters, put the fire on and listen to the ocean battering the house. I bought a telescope so I could look out to sea and feel dramatic, romantic and wistful, but it doesn’t work.”

He spent four years and £500,000 renovating the home

Living by the sea has done wonders for his mental health, too. “When I cross the border into Cornwall, I feel stress can’t reach me,” says the singer, who uses Stratton House when he’s not at home in north London. “The sea air combined with the wooden shutters helps me sleep so well. There is a direct correlation between time spent in Falmouth and not being riddled with anxiety.”

Renovating the house, though, was not easy: it took him four years and about £500,000. “It’s like being in a band,” he says. “When I started out, I did things that I couldn’t be bothered to do if I was starting out now. It’s mind-boggling that I had the passion to see it through.”

The singer favours a surprisingly trad style, including antique mirrors

He lowered the entire floor of the basement to create a two-bedroom garden flat. All the bathrooms were redone and layouts were changed. His proudest achievement is the creation of a secret door that conceals a sun room. “That was a boyhood dream, to make a bookcase that was a secret door. When you push a certain book, the bookcase swings open. Sometimes I don’t tell guests about it until day three. It comes as a real shock.”

They might be more shocked to learn that the frontman of Kaiser Chiefs has damask sofas and antique mirrors. He’s “in love” with the Shaker kitchen by a local company, Williams Creative Homes. If his house was on Through the Keyhole, he says, nobody would guess it was his. “I’m old-fashioned, I like traditional stuff. My grandmother had an antiques shop, but it was really a junk shop. I buy a lot of junk, but it’s junk that I love — eBay is a terrible thing. If I had a vice, it’d be that.”

He’s never had rock-star parties here, and mostly goes unrecognised in Falmouth, which he calls “a magnet for good people”, with an artsy university. “Kids give a place life and urgency. Unlike a lot of seaside towns, it’s not just fading away.”

A perfect day would be walking his labradoodle, Reedus, from Gyllyngvase beach to Swanpool beach, where the cafe “has the best hot chocolate in the world”. “Then I potter around. I might go to Trago Mills, this fantastic DIY store, buy a screwdriver and feel like a proper person.”

Damask sofas add to the home’s style

When Wilson bought the house, he was thinking of winding down his pop-star life. “The general consensus is that you should only be a pop star for four or five years. I had outlived my time. I was ready for a quiet life in Falmouth. Then I got my second wind and my career took off again.”

Indeed, the band’s latest album, Duck, made it to No 3, and they’re now touring. So he is selling up for £1.5m, with the estate agent Ian Lillicrap handling the sale. “Now I don’t spend any time there. It’s wasted on me. It needs to be lived in.”

Yet Wilson, who is engaged to the stylist Grace Zito, credits the house with changing his life. “It spurred me on to do things I never thought I would do. I bought a dog, which is like having a practice kid. I got a Barbour jacket. It’s, like, ‘What’s happened to me?’

It has also given him the bug for projects. He’s now looking for a house in London after selling his old home in Highgate. “I’m into finding houses that need a bit of love. And, at the risk of sounding schmaltzy, saving them for another generation. I am respectful of this house. I talk to it and ask it how it is. When I shut the door, I say goodbye to it. I treat it like a member of the family. Houses do take over your life.”

So it’s official: restoring houses is the new rock’n’roll.

[inflictuated]

Playlist tag

rules: we’re snooping your playlist! put your entire music library on shuffle and list the first ten songs

tagged by @svteenwonunu ! Hi Effy, sorry for my super late response haha.

1. Perhaps love - Eric Nam, CHEEZE

2. In my dream - Rocoberry

3. Lip & Hip - Hyuna (workout song haha)

4. Ruby - Kaiser Chiefs

5. Grace Kelly - Mika (oh, the last two are reminiscences of my teenage years haha)

6. Horizon - Bye bye bad Man (i blame @afiwashere for this. For like half of the playlist actually)

7. Elastic heart - Sia

8. Piano Man - Billy Joel (aaaw, perfect mood ❤)

9. Oh Na Na - Kard

10. Cry me a river - Justin Timberlake (oh god, perfect ending hahahha)

I'm surprised there is nothing french, nor electro or rap/hip-hop haha. But I know Spotify algorithm isn't exactly random, because the genres we had just listened are the first ones proposed so... 🤔

[help-who-am-i]

Name a song that brings back memories of your childhood when you hear it. Ruby by Kaiser Chiefs. It was our family’s car song for long journeys down to Devon or up to Yorkshire.

When was the last time you ate strawberries? Hmm... have I had any this year yet? I’m not even sure, but I don’t think so. In which case, the last time would’ve probably been last summer (2020).

Is there anything you like to put on a sandwich, that some might find odd? Nope.

What colour are the shoes you wear most often? Black.

When was the last time you were required to put on a mask? Probably when I went to get my first COVID vaccine dose.

And what colour was the last mask you wore? Blue.

Can you recall the last time you gave your mobile phone number to someone? Nope. The last time you were in a queue, what were you waiting for? Good question... Due to COVID I’ve been avoidant of places which are crowded, so it’s really hard to try and remember when I was last in a queue. Probably when I had to queue for my first COVID vaccine dose. 

Have you had your Covid vaccine yet? Which one, if you have? The first dose of Pfizer - awaiting a second.

If you’ve had your vaccine, did you experience any side effects? Yeah, I had flu-like symptoms as well as the common sore arm.

Can you recall the last time you walked up or down a hill? Yesterday evening. It was more of a slope than a steep hill though.

Any idea what you were doing at 5:30PM last Saturday? Either waiting for my pizza delivery, receiving it, or chowing down on the pizza!

The last time you went to a supermarket what were some of the items you bought? Just name a few. Oggs millionaire bites, Fry’s vegan mini sausage rolls.

When you were 13 years old, who was your closest friend? Do you still talk? :( This is one heartbreaker of a subject for me. M was my best and closest friend, we would see each other nearly every day because we lived on the same street. We had so much in common and became very good at reading each other’s thoughts. But then adulthood came in like a wrecking ball - I moved to another area of the country for uni, and M suddenly fell in love, got married and emigrated. We’re ghosts to each other now.

Have you ever met anyone named Janine? Tell me a little bit about them. Yes, very briefly - they were an old boss’s wife.

When was the last time you had a bottle of pop, or soda? What kind? Last weekend... guilty as charged. I’m still trying to forego fizzy drinks completely because of how bad they are for my teeth, but it’s proving hard. Coca Cola.

What was the last catchy song you heard? Did you sing along to it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWyOrbpGCpE

I just discovered that and I cannot stop laughing when I watch/listen to it. I didn’t sing along because I was too busy laughing.

Can any of your friends sing well? Which one has the nicest singing voice? Yes! I recently had the pleasure of listening to a friend sing whilst playing an Evanescence song on their piano. They were amazing! I think they’re the only friend that I’ve ever heard sing seriously before.

When was the last time you wore make-up, if ever? What shades/colours? A while ago... probably last month when I went to hang out with a friend, their flatmate and their animals. I always wear neutral shades/colours. I tried a more gothic look when I was younger, but instead of ‘edgy teen’ it looked more like ‘bedraggled swamp witch’. Oh well... I can still be somewhat gothic at heart.

Do you have any accessories that you wear daily? I try to remember to wear my watch and fidget bracelet, but I often forget. 

What brand of lip balm do you prefer? I don’t use lip balm.

What was the last thing you wrote down on paper? ‘Oxo veg stock cubes’.

And what colour was the pen you wrote with? Probably black; I didn’t take any notice.

When was the last time you had a parcel delivered? What was it? Last Friday. It was some headphones that I ordered, which I happen to be wearing right now as a matter of fact... no music is playing though. 

If you wear nail varnish, do you have a favourite brand/shade? I rarely bother with nail varnish, but my absolute favourite colour is black.

What’s the next item of clothing that you intend to buy for yourself? Fluffy socks. Almost all of mine now have gaping holes in them because someone/some members of the household are messy and don’t notice or don’t clean up water spillages from the kitchen floor.

What is something that seems popular, but doesn’t interest you personally? Football.

How old is the device you’re currently using to access Tumblr? I couldn’t find a precise date for you because I had to reinstall BIOS several times when this HP laptop started to randomly shut down due to corrupted hardware. I bought it new around this time (July) last year.