Tennessee, I love you: Tim, Taylor and Keith

Here I am again telling you/bragging about my trip to America and my new favourite place in the world Nashville, Tennessee.

I was there for this! It was so awesome. 

While in Nashville I did a lot of things for the first time. I went honky tonking, western horse riding, ate deep fried pickle chips, fan girled*. Some of you maybe thinking that I fan girl all the time and I thought that I did too! That was until I was watching Taylor Swift at CMA Fest and she bought out Tim McGraw and Keith Urban to perform with her.

I freaking lost it. 

There were screaming and profanities coming out of my mouth that even surprised me. I full on fan girled. I must admit that I'm kind of proud of that fact that I freaked out over something so awesome. It was so completely exciting and unexpected that if you were there you would've freaked out too..... maybe. Below is the official music video for Highway Don't Care (their amazing song) and a fan video of the actual performance. 

Make sure you check out Taylor, Tim and Keith's music and Tim's latest album featuring Highway Don't Care.

*In case you don't know what a fangirl is this is the Urban Dictionary definition: 'Girls who are fanatical about a particular person, group of people, or idea.'

Gambino is a mastermind

Last week I introduced you to my imaginary best friend Taylor Swift so this week I thought I would introduce you to my imaginary boyfriend Donald Glover.

Most of you will know Donald Glover as Troy Barnes from Community and while it is one of the best shows on TV right now he is so much more than half of ‘Troy and Abed in the Morning’.

Donald Glover started off as a staff writer for 30 Rock (the greatest show in the world) and during the three years he was there wrote some of the funniest episodes (The Fun Cooker and Episode 210). It was during his work on 30 Rock that he started his career in rap music under the stage name Childish Gambino. It started off as a joke and he would release EPs free on the Internet. After steadily gaining popularity and having his song ‘Freaks and Geeks’ in an Adidas commercial Donald signed with Glassnote Records and released his first album published onto CDs entitled ‘Camp’.

Camp is one of my favorite albums of the past few years. Lyrically it is so well written and clever. I would love to put an example of how great the lyrics are but I can’t think of any that wouldn’t offend a lot of people. His lyrics are pretty filthy. It’s awesome.

It was during the first few years of his music career Donald got the role of Troy on Community which is heading into its 4^th season. The whole cast of Community is hilarious and if you feel like watching one of the funniest shows on TV make sure you check it out. It's NBC comedy at it's finest. 

In summary, Donald Glover is a genius writer and has worked on 2 of the best shows on TV while releasing a ton of good music. You should also know that Donald Glover is a babe. And that's why he is my imaginary boyfriend. Make sure you check out the Community and 30 Rock DVDs we have in the library and (if you’re an adult and not easily offended) his album Camp. They’re all amazing. You can take my word for it. 

'Red' by Taylor Swift

I don’t care what anybody says, I love Taylor Swift and I kind of wish we were best friends. Actually in my mind we are best friends she just doesn't know it yet. Her new album ‘Red’ was released on Tuesday and I was pretty excited so I thought in celebration I would excitedly tell you about how much I love this record.

The number one reason you should listen to it? The song ‘Everything Has Changed’ featuring Ed Sheeran. IT’S SO GOOD! Ed is a capital G genius and Taylor is an amazing song writer. It’s musical heaven! There’s also a song called ‘The Last Time’ with Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol and it is delicious.

Make sure you listen to ‘Treacherous’ and ‘Begin Again’ they’re easily two of the best songs on the album and the song ‘All Too Well’ which includes the line ‘you called me up again just to break me like a promise. So casually cruel in the name of being honest’ which makes me melt inside it’s so good. And for all of those young men and women who are 22 please turn on ‘22’ as loud as you can and dance around your living room. I’m too old and it breaks my heart a little bit.

So I know that some of you are skeptical after hearing ‘We Are Never Getting Back Together.’ I know it’s a little bit pop-tastic for some people and I get that, I really do but please don’t give up on it yet okay? She’s my best friend*. It’s such a fun album so please get it out from your local library ASAP. Here's the link to the catalogue all ready for you. 

*I’m 90% kidding.