Lisa "Mixtape" Turtle [1/95454521545]

Because I (obviously) have nothing but time to waste... I decided to make "mixtapes." The First is Lisa Turtle Loves The Repeat Button... Because, seriously, I love to repeat songs. So, this is my "mixtape" of songs I repeat... A lot.Get it here.

1. Poparatizi - Musiq Soulchild
2. Sunshine - Lupe Fiasco
3. He Say She Say (Feat. Gemini & Sarah Green) - Lupe Fiasco
4. And He Gets The Girl - Lupe Fiasco
5. Maybe - N*E*R*D
6. Why Should I Be Sad - Britney Spears
7. Nikki - The-Dream
8. All The Damn Kids - The Carps
9. Heaven (Feat. Jully Black) - Nas
10. You Don't Miss Your Water - Otis Redding
11. Ex-Factor - Lauryn Hill
12. Green Eyes - Erykah Badu
13. Till It Happens To You - Corinne Bailey Rae
14. Down On My Knees (Live) - Ayọ
15. Love Is A Losing Game - Amy Winehouse
16. Samson - Regina Spektor
17. Gavin's Song - Marc Broussard
18. Loose Lips - Kimya Dawson
19. Nothing Lasts Forever - Maroon 5
20. XO - Fall Out Boy
21. Let This Go - Paramore
22. Time Is Running Out - Muse
23. Fucking Boyfriend - The Bird And The Bee
24. Marsh King's Daughter - Eisley
25. Promises - Savage Garden
26. Still Ray - Raphael Saadiq
27. P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) - Michael Jackson

Remember That I Love You♥

I'm WUI (writing under the influence) again. Well, I don't know if I'm really WUI because I didn't do anything to feel inebriated but my mom made apple cobbler and put a lot of rum in it so now I feel kind of buzzed. Anyway... I'm listening to this song by Kimya Dawson called "Loose Lips" (on repeat because that's what I do) and it makes me smile. I won't drag on about it but I will say that the song (to me) is about hope and I think a little hope is something we could all use every now and then... Some of us more often than others (I'm included in the latter).

So I'd like to say this to anyone who reads this unless you are my brother (the full-blooded one that's still living), Jessica Cooper, a child molester, a rapist, a woman beater, or any other kind of disgusting person:

So if you wanna burn yourself, remember that I Love You
And if you wanna cut yourself, remember that I Love You
And if you wanna kill yourself, remember that I Love You
Call me up before you're dead, we can make some plans instead
Send me an IM, I'll be your friend
-Kimya Dawson "Loose Lips"

I mean it too and you should check out more of her music. If you've seen Juno, you've heard some of her music but you should really hear more. She's good and I think her songs are cute.
And again, all decent, non-evil people... Remember that I love you♥. :)


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Now playing: Kimya Dawson - Loose Lips
via FoxyTunes

They Don't Make 'Em Like This Anymore

"I don't care how many times it has been done; I am putting my own two cents on the album that carried me from pre-teen to teen to young woman to beginning almost-real adulthood. Everybody can have their opinions but (to me) The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill is the 1990's hip-hop/r&b answer to Songs In The Key Of Life. For the soul purists this may be a big claim but I'm just saying what this album has meant to me. My auntie Lucy bought this CD for my 12th birthday in 1998 and nearly 10 years later I'm catching lines I missed."
-Me

That's what I wrote last night/this morning when I thought to myself that I was going to write about this album that serves as my life soundtrack. Then, like usual, I got distracted and went off elsewhere but today I decided to come back to what I had intended to say. What I intended to say is that maybe I take things differently than other people... Maybe I put to much into music... Maybe it has too big of a presence in my life. If that is true SO BE IT! I am a music lover and though I am (admittedly) not the most fickle of music lovers it is rare that I can listen to an entire album on repeat without skipping and never get bored. This album... *DEEP SIGH* This album is about LOVE in every form.

• Difficult/Painful Love - "Ex-Factor"
• Love Of Your Child - "To Zion"
  
• Love Yourself Young Women and Men - "Doo Wop (That Thing)"
• Love For God (Beautiful song, though I'm not religious) - "Tell Him"

I could actually go on and on but I'm trying not to be TOO long-winded. Lauryn Hill has inspired many. You look on Youtube and there are countless covers of her songs by musicians (both professional and amateur). Sadly, The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill is her only solo studio album. Lauryn Hill has become known for her semi-crazy antics. People have alleged she is a racist based off of quotes that she never said (See: Wikipedia). Do I wish that she could somehow go back to the Lauryn that made this beautiful album? Yes. But Lauryn contends that the Lauryn I (and many like me) long for was not the real Lauryn Hill and that she was not being completely true to herself.

"People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at that time. There was much more strength, spirit and passion, desire, curiosity, ambition and opinion that was not allowed in a small space designed for consumer mass appeal and dictated by very limited standards. I had to step away when I realized that for the sake of the machine, I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable about having to smile in someone’s face when I really didn’t like them or even know them well enough to like them."
-Lauryn Hill

So I guess she is never "coming back." That is her right. It will not stop me from enjoying this masterpiece. But I just need someone to tell VIBE MAGAZINE that Amy Winehouse will NEVER be Lauryn Hill, not that I take much credit in Vibe Magazine anyway. "Forgive them father, they know not what they do..."


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Now playing: Lauryn Hill - Every Ghetto, Every City
via FoxyTunes