Kate Nash

I have been on a kick of Kate Nash's music lately. I love her lyrics, as well as the fact that when she sings you can hear her British accent, something I don't seem to hear often in female British singers. Her song "Foundations" is wonderful; it's the story of a relationship where the two really don't like each other any more but stay together anyways. She talks about loving the fighting between the two of them. I think people are generally more self-destructive that we'd all like to admit.

"My finger tips are holding onto the cracks in our foundation,
and I know that I should let go,
but I can't."

I love those lyrics. I can't think of a time when I was necessarily in that situation, but sometimes I wonder if my last ex felt that way about me. He wanted to do right by me because he cared about me, so he felt it necessary to hold on for a lot longer than he should have, at the expense of me assuming his feelings were much stronger than they were.

My musical situation is kind of odd right now. I listened only to the radio for 2 years when I was with my last boyfriend. I think a lot of it is because we practically lived together, so I never was on my own to sit and listen to new music. And then I just got in the habit of not learning about new, cool bands; when you get out of the music "scene" it can be hard to break back in. The fact that I didn't have an iPod for a long time didn't help things. Since moving to DC, I've jumped back into music wholeheartedly. Once my laptop was stolen, tho, I haven't had iTunes to listen to.

I just got into Pandora pretty intensely as a "stop gap" when I was borrowing a friend's laptop. But I've found myself really enjoying Pandora - I even listen to it on my iPhone when walking to and from school now. So, for the time being, I'll enjoy my Kate Nash and others that Pandora bring me.