Perfect Playlist for Getting Pumped About Writing a Timed Writing When You Totally Don’t Want to but You Know You Have to because Mr. Logsdon Said it’s Good Practice and so You Take His Word for It!

1)      These Words – Natasha Bedingfield

2)      Unwritten – Natasha Bedingfield

3)      Anything by the Vitamin String Quartet (I really like Eleanor Rigby and Sweet Child of Mine)

4)      Dog Days are Over – Florence and The Machine

5)      Clocks – Coldplay

Let’s go from the bottom up.

Coldplay:

 “The lights go out and I can’t be saved” because I entered Mr. Logsdon’s room and I see the packets on the table and I die a little inside.

“Tides I tried to swim against” so I could find some other way to understand how to write other than actually…. Writing….

“Have brought me down upon my knees, Oh I beg, I beg and plead” for it just to be a different day because after this I know that I’m going to be graded and everyone’s going to tell me how bad I am at writing.

And that’s just the first stanza. Totally applicable. Plus on top of that, there’s an amazing piano in the background and even if you can’t understand a single word they’re singing (which is very likely), you can still just feel at peace with whatever you’re about to go up against and face.

Florence and The Machine:

Okay so the lyrics really don’t have anything to do with timed writing other than the fact that they go perfectly with the music being played with them. They were destined to be together. They just were. You can’t deny, unless you’ve listen to this song a million times and are totally annoyed by it (and you still probably can’t deny), that this song is just brilliance. Her voice was made for this song. And she nails it. It’s an easy song just to, for lack of a better word, jive to.

Vitamin String Quartet:

There is nothing not to like about these people. They take already good songs and make them even better. They just do. I particularly like Eleanor Rigby because they don’t take away from the amazingness of the original song. It still sounds the way it was intended but with an orchestral spin. It’s beautiful.

Natasha Bedingfield:

Old songs. Super old songs. But come on.

“Trying to find the magic
Trying to write a classic
 …
Waste bin full of paper
Clever rhymes see you later
…
These words are my own
They’re from my heart flown”

I’m not even going to explain.

“I am unwritten
Can’t read my mind
I’m undefined
I’m just the beginning
The pen’s in my hand
Ending unplanned”

Cheesy? Yes. Is it still great? Absolutely.