Artist name: GirlSpice
Genre: Electro-pop
Track length: 3:30
Writer(s): N. Berry, C. Hayes, S. Stellar, K. Gold
Producer(s): Xenomania
Description:

With it already being 20 months since the last GirlSpice album, it's clearly been a while since all of the girls' voices have been heard on a song together. But despite the lengthy break for fans without a single song, "Kiss Me" sounds like classic GirlSpice and fits in perfectly with the group's infectious discography of catchy, melodic pop music. It's fun, suggestive and playful, all of the things that make a GirlSpice song what it is as the song deals with sexual tension between two people, presenting it in the lyrics in a more subtle way. GirlSpice haven't been shy of singing racy lyrics in the past, but this time round, "Kiss Me" is almost as if it was written by a teenage girl with a crush, it's more cutesy and innocent, instead of daring and controversial like past hits such as "Dirty Mouth".

Despite "Kiss Me" being able to appeal to the younger demographic with a lot more ease, GirlSpice have made sure that the music itself is as hard-hitting and dance-floor ready as ever. But that comes as no surprise, as the girls have made a successful transition from pure pop music in earlier albums to a more dance-oriented sound in recent records. With Nadia's recent success, fans would probably expect her to take most of the limelight in this song, but thankfully, the lines are shared out fairly equally and no one in particular leads the song.

Sophia, who's also scored a debut chart-topping album, opens the song with her trademark soft, light voice, before Chantal's contrasting, more deeper, seductive vocals come in at the end of the first verse. Nadia then leads the following verse with her strong, sultry vocals, before Kimberly finishes off with her raspy voice, both girls often praised as the best vocalists within GirlSpice. The whole group then sing the pre-chorus in a relaxed, almost whispered tone over the building beat, before their combined vocals in the chorus make it one of the group's most powerful and catchiest yet. The order of the song follows similarly throughout, before an explosive final chorus and an outro of nothing but all of their vocals.

"Kiss Me"

NADIA
CHANTAL
KIMBERLY
SOPHIA
ALL

Sounds like:

Baby, why you gotta be so tempting?
Standing over there looking so damn fine
And baby, you won't hear me begging
But I'm gonna lay it all on the line
And I know I shouldn't, so forgive me
But I'm feeling like being a little daring
And I won't give you any apology
Cause it's your fault for being so damn distracting

You make me tremble, got me feeling the adrenaline
No words spoken, you let your eyes do the talking
I'm feeling sick and just want some of your medicine
Silence in the air, yet I can hear your body calling
Would it be wrong of me to give you what you need?
Wrong of you to do as you please?
I'm burning up, can you feel the heat?
Oh, you're the only air that I wanna breathe

Boy, I don't wanna complicate things
I'm not the type for no strings and flings
But what I'm feeling is too strong to ignore
And I know you want it even more
What we gonna, what we gonna do?
When you want me and I want you...

What's there to do when you can feel it too?
This tension that builds between me and you
Try and deny it, but babe, I wanna hear you admit
That you so badly wanna act upon it
Told yourself you shouldn't
But stay away, you couldn't
So what's there to do between us two?
When you wanna kiss me and I wanna kiss you too

I can't help but love it when you treat me mean
It only makes me more and more eager
Making my heart feel like it's just turned seventeen
Giving me butterflies and a soaring fever
And I know it's far more than just a crush
The way you've almost got me in cardiac arrest
Cause you never fail to make my blood rush
Making my heart pound against my chest

Boy, I don't wanna complicate things
I'm not the type for no strings and flings
But what I'm feeling is too strong to ignore
And I know you want it even more
What we gonna, what we gonna do?
When you want me and I want you...

What's there to do when you can feel it too?
This tension that builds between me and you
Try and deny it, but babe, I wanna hear you admit
That you so badly wanna act upon it
Told yourself you shouldn't
But stay away, you couldn't
So what's there to do between us two?
When you wanna kiss me and I wanna kiss you too

What we gonna, what we gonna do?
Oh baby, what we gonna, what we gonna do?
What we gonna, what we gonna do?
Oh baby, what we gonna, what we gonna do?

You look over and give me that sexy smile
And it's like you were made just for me
From the way you talk to your walk to your style
You're the only guy that my eyes could ever see
And for so long, I've been waiting and waiting
Hoping that you'd make the first move
And for so long, I've been anticipating
But you can't deny the truth...

That you want, you want me
And I want, I want you
Yeah, you want, you want me
And I want, I want you too

What we gonna, what we gonna do?
Oh baby, what we gonna, what we gonna do?
What we gonna, what we gonna do?
Oh baby, what we gonna, what we gonna do?

What's there to do when you can feel it too?
This tension that builds between me and you
Try and deny it, but babe, I wanna hear you admit
That you so badly wanna act upon it
Told yourself you shouldn't
But stay away, you couldn't
So what's there to do between us two?
When you wanna kiss me and I wanna kiss you too

What we gonna, what we gonna do?
Oh baby, what we gonna, what we gonna do?
What we gonna, what we gonna do?
Oh baby, what we gonna, what we gonna do?

OOC: Credit to GirlSpice/Stacy.

On Holiday

Artist name: Jimmy Church
Genre: Vapor-Punk (Dream + Punk)
Track length: 1:56
Writer(s): James Black
Producer(s): James ‘Jimmy’ Church

Lyrics:
Euphoria everywhere/Life continues without a care
And I’m only here for me and my girl
It’s a lonely and quiet world/I would sell my soul
To look and love and feel old
I feel so bad/Life’s not that rad
Euphoria everywhere/Euphoria everywhere
And I’m without a care, in my little sandbox/In my little sandbox called California
California call me home/Call me home baby-girl
Call me home
Cuz I’m goin’, goin’ off/Cuz I’m goin’ off to the Sweet Unknown

Description:
“On Holiday, could be described as bleak, and it could also be described as very happy. I think the song, lyric-wise and sound-wise was heavily inspired by The Great Gatsby. There’s this darkness out there juxtaposed with the partying and dancing of the times. It really puts the question of, living in the moment vs. looking at the moment into the equation and I like that kind of thing. I’m deeper than you assholes thought, huh?

To continue on, the song is really 1:26, the last 30 seconds are just added sketchiness from the moments after I recorded. The guitar-work is light to highlight this new genre I’m trying out, but the free-verse lyrics and lack of drums are there.

Go forth and die,
James “Jimmy” Church”

Addiction

Artist Name: Parish (feat. Mykaylah)
Genre: Urban/Hip-Hop
Track length: 3:21
Writer(s): Michael Parish
Producer(s): Michael Parish

Lyrics:

Oh watch their lives,
As they fall apart,
Addiction grows,
Then they fall apart…

When you reach for the stars, be careful where they are,
Do they hide behind the shots that they drink at the bar?
Watch as they grow, as new interests take their toll,
Watch as the addiction gets a grasp on their souls.
Take a sniff over here; take a drag over there,
These things in this kinda world aren’t exactly rare.

Oh watch their lives,
As they fall apart,
Addiction grows,
Then they fall apart…

Movie scenes, and teenage dreams,
Come hand in hand, with ketamine,
All the times that they perform so well,
They’re probably smacked up on coke as well,
A quick slip of the hand; and money is exchanged,
Nobody knows she’s hooked again,
Takes it in the dressing room, when she’s all by herself,
Nobody there to watch her destroy herself.

Oh watch their lives,
As they fall apart,
Addiction grows,
Then they fall apart…
Oh watch their lives,
As they fall apart,
Addiction grows,
Then they fall apart

Our star goes home, after a long hard day,
She closes the door, and then she’s on it again,
Closes the curtains, gets her shit sparked up,
She’ll soon be higher than a kite, and totally fucked,
She rolls up her sleeve and takes the needle out,
She wants a new high, that’s what heroin’s about
Our star slaps her wrist hard, and ties a belt around her arm,
Makes the veins pop out, so she can cause herself some harm.
Puts the needle in, oh wow she really hits the spot,
Feels the addiction and the burn, oh she really gets it hot.
She takes a deep breath, and leaves the needle in,
Before she knows what’s happening, her breaths get really thin,
She gasps and struggles for air, as she pulls the needle out,
She can’t breathe at all; no-one can hear her shout,
Takes her final breathe, oh what a waste her life has been,
She took the stuff, and now she’s gone,
Our star, please rest in peace.


Description:
There is silence for three long seconds, and then all of a sudden a continual beating on a drum occurs. This happens for 20 seconds until a simple piano riff starts. The beating drum continues over the simple piano riff. All of a sudden Mykalyah’s powerful R’n’B vocals filter in over the piano and the drum, and the synth and the bass joins in with her.

As Mykaylah holds the final note, Parish’s swish vocals come in. He doesn’t rap quickly, just emphases each word. Mykaylah can be heard to be harmonising over the back of his vocals in places as the drum beat speeds up a little and the bass and synths start to get louder. As the first verse starts to reach a close the music cuts out and all that can be heard is a drum beat, in time with a beating heart.

Mykaylah’s booming vocals cut back in along with the drum beat and bass line as the second chorus comes around. Her vocals appear to get more powerful towards the middle of the chorus and then she gets quieter again towards the end. As she holds the last line of the chorus Parish cuts in beneath her again.

Parish goes into story telling mode now, and he begins to tell the story of a star that has fallen into drugs. The story represents the life of one of the characters in Ryan Ross Hernandez’s now television show Sweet Unknown. At this point the music gets quieter, but ever more complex, and as the chorus arrives Parish speaks the words to the chorus gently beneath Mykaylah’s vocals.

This chorus is slightly longer, and a high pitched tapping on the piano is played and a little intricate tune plays under the female vocals. This then leads into the final verse. Parish’s soft rapping style really tells the story well, and helps to emphasise the actions and the feelings of the character in the song. As the verse progresses the bass line seems to get louder and faster, until the penultimate line of the song where a beeping sound can be heard which starts to slow down. Then as he says the last line the beeping becomes one solid noise, the sound of a patient ‘flat-lining’ at a hospital when there heart is no longer beating.

Artist name: Kourtney
Genre: Pop-Rock
Track length: 2:53
Writer(s): Bianca Moretti
Producer(s): Kourtney Steele, Bianca Moretti

Lyrics:

Your phone's ringing my dear but you pretend not to hear, so you ignore it
Yeah you, you think you're so cool,
I must be a fool
To think I was important

Everything seems to be so sincere
When you say it to me
You can't make me number one

You seem to have all these thoughts
Like I'm not good enough
But you'll never know it
And my time, not again won't be wasted
We go through this on a daily
I'm nobody's second choice

I find myself all alone
And you don't seem to care
Why don't you make up your mind?

Look, back where we started
I'm so brokenhearted, you don't know I'm here

You don't know I'm here(x2)

Do you ever hear a word that I say to you?
If you had to choose between us, what would you do?
How can you look at me and not see the truth?
Do you ever hear a word that I say to you?
Do you ever hear a word that I say to you?

You have already chose
I know where this goes, I'll just have to end it

Goodbye, you'll figure it out
Don't you ever doubt, that I could just stay there

Description:
'Second Choice' is a pop-rock song talking about feeling like you're someone's second choice because of how they always abandon you and never want to spend time with you like they should. The song starts off acoustic then at about 1:28 the drums kick in and it becomes a more anger driven song asking questions on lines like, Do you ever hear a word that I say to you? / If you had to choose between us, what would you do? / How can you look at me and not see the truth? / Do you ever hear a word that I say to you?. Before the song comes to an end, it goes back to acoustic and she sings that the anger driven part of the song was her way of letting out how she feels and that she knows that he doesn't want to be with her, for he's already made his choice, and she plans to leave him. "This track was very fun to do," said Steele when asked about it, "I was able to put so much emotion and my own thoughts and feelings in this song that I think this is probably my top favorite song that I've ever done. I love putting out songs that have meanings for me and that I know will mean something to someone else. I think that its a great song for the Sweet Unknown soundtrack and I hope that when people listen to it that they can understand the take home message of the song and relate it to themselves while also enjoying everything else that comes along with the song whether it be the production, vocals, or whatever as well."

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Alone Tonight

Artist name: PURE
Genre: Indie rock
Track length: 3:51
Writer(s): Ryan Williams, Dan Howser, Zach Marshall, Nick Cohen
Producer(s): Ryan Williams

Lyrics:


Why do you act like such a bitch around all of your friends?
I can’t pretend to not hear you talking to them
Dishing out dirt on how I’m the problem
We could have settled this with a simple yes or no
But now we’re caught in a landslide that isn’t about to slow down
Let’s take another night of you ignoring me on the town
Leading someone on is a terrible action
Who would have predicted this reaction to our fucked up attraction

Even a majestic creature from deep in the trees would agree
That you and me were just never meant to be
I’m fucking sick of sleeping alone at night,
No I don’t want to be alone tonight
And we know if we keep on living like this it will kill us both for sure

I’m starting to feel mini explosions deep in my chest
Get high and think about whether this is just a test
My head is caught in two minds on what to believe
Those small signs are too little to make me pack up and leave
There’s a sickening feeling deep in my heart telling me this is the end
These are wounds that take much more than just time to mend
I’d appreciate it if you could let me go easily
If I could say one more thing to you, that would be my final plea

Even a majestic creature from deep in the trees would agree
That you and me were just never meant to be
I’m fucking sick of sleeping alone at night,
Oh I don’t want to be alone tonight
And we know if we keep on living like this it will kill us both for sure

Nobody gets me in this stinking town
It’s like a sinking ship dragging me a long way down
I’m crying out for someone to come along
No matter how hard I try I’ll never be strong
Have you tried chasing dreams?
Just like they do on movie screens
It’s not all as easy as it seems
I’ve spent a lifetime trying to figure this all out
Is pain and misery what love is all about
I heard the ocean whisper my name
It called me close and asked me if I was happy at what I’ve became
The waves tempted me with a way out
Promised to release my mind of its crippling doubt

Even a majestic creature from deep in the trees would agree
That you and me were just never meant to be
I’m fucking sick of sleeping alone at night,
Oh I don’t want to be alone tonight
And we know if we keep on living like this it will kill us both for sure

Description:

The first song from Ryan Williams' new band to surface is the heartbreaking 'Alone Tonight'. Williams always had a way of focusing his lyrics on the heart and never shied away from writing the most personal of songs - and this is no different. The song itself is very guitar-led, with the first note ringing out several times as the reverb takes control. Williams sings about a certain girl who gossiped to her friends about their relationship as he complains that it is not his fault they have ended up they way they have. The band had said that they were hoping that their songs would get fans dancing and moving at gigs and despite the theme of the song, it's easy to see how one might add a head nod along with the classic shoulder dance. Williams was keen to stress that this song is not a single and will not feature on any of their upcoming EP's, "RRH is a top man and after we heard that he was after songs to be put onto the soundtrack of his upcoming show, there was really no way we would of said no. The man is a massive influence on us as a band."
The song speeds up as it enters the bridge as Williams' voice is echoed by 'Oh, oh's' as he digs deep into his chest and tells the frightening lyrics. "To be honest, the song was composed of three different ones. I had wrote the chorus and bridge for a different song. But I got really drunk one night and the events in the verses' happened, so we mixed them together and it felt right."

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Dreams of Monochromatic Visions

Artist name: Katie Coyle
Genre: Folk pop
Track length: 4:47
Writer(s): Katie Coyle
Producer(s): Scott RH

Lyrics:

I used to always let my dreams exist, only in black and white
Because I lived a life so full of colour, I'd escape from it each night
I'd tightly close my eyes and let the vibrant colours drain away
The greys of night helped dim the pain of rainbows through my day

Reaching out, trying to grab the stars,
As I escaped this world within my dream
Chasing another wonderful wild sensation,
Colours turn to emptiness in my imagination
A better life existed when I dreamed
Creating my own mystical illusion
Pulling myself free from my own perpetual confusion,
Escaping in my dreams

I'd look at myself some nights and hope for more beyond this mirror,
I'd cry myself to sleep as I prayed for a dream where I'm a winner,
No dreaming of distant lands and wondrous plans are ever going to be
Better than what I see

Reaching out, trying to grab the stars,
As I escaped this world within my dream
Chasing another wonderful wild sensation,
Colours turn to emptiness in my imagination
A better life existed when I dreamed
Creating my own mystical illusion
Pulling myself free from my own perpetual confusion,
Escaping in my dreams

I once thought that my existence was worth more when I close my eyes,
When I let the shades and hues go, to live among my own hopes and lies,
Dancing in the dark, I felt like I was wandering somewhere without light,
No forests or jungles, no dreams of wealth, no super powers or flight

I was afraid to let my dreams die, to sacrifice a world where things were better,
To give up something I created, a story pulled so slowly apart letter by letter
I hid the notion from myself that the dreams where something I needed
To bring the colours back would be to lose, my wonderland conceeded.

Reaching out, trying to grab the stars,
As I escaped this world within my dream
Chasing another wonderful wild sensation,
Colours turn to emptiness in my imagination
A better life existed when I dreamed
Creating my own mystical illusion
Pulling myself free from my own perpetual confusion,
Escaping in my dreams

Letting the colours come back to my sleeping hours was more than a mountain
But when I did, I saw the beauty, the rainbow as the sun shines through a fountain
I let the sun shine in my dreams, I watched the leaves blow in the gentle breeze
Their colours brighter than I'd seen, as the lines between life and sleeping freeze
I seek out real things in my dreams, I look for strengths, wishes and games
I allowed myself to want for more, to know what I need would not burst into flames

Allow me to wash away those memories of dreams so bland and grey
Let the colours rush back in and take the fabric of the past and make it fray
I let the light in as I walk through forests of dreams, and love, and wonder
The ability was born once more to sleep, and in there ponder.

Reaching out, trying to grab the stars,
As I escaped this world within my dream
Chasing another wonderful wild sensation,
Colours turn to emptiness in my imagination
A better life existed when I dreamed
Creating my own mystical illusion
Pulling myself free from my own perpetual confusion,
Escaping in my dreams

Description:
Katie says: "This was a bit of a 'new dawn' moment for me. It's the first time I've written a song in almost a year, after a break that was long overdue having done a lot of recording and touring for the three years before it. It's been a fantastic year in the last 12 months, and a lot has changed in my life, but I was delighted to get back to music. The chance to work with Ryan is not one that anyone would pass up, so when he came to me with a chance to write and record for his show, I couldn't say no. People might think that there would be some form of animosity over what happened when our friendship came to an end, but I think we're all over that. We are adults and professionals after all, and there's still a great deal of respect there on both sides I think. I also got the chance to work with Scott RH behind the glass for the first time. That was exciting. He and I have been friends for a long time, and it was the first time I got the chance to work at the studio he and Gia have built, which was sensational. They have top facilities there. All at home as well. I'm proud of this track. It's very much exciting for me to have the chance to write again, and I feel this is very Katie Coyle. You can take it either literally or figuratively, that's the beauty of the lyrics in my eyes. Is it about dreams? Or is it about the change in everything I've gone through and the way I now have the ability to escape the, quite frankly ridiculous, behaviour that used to tarnish my life? I'll let you guys decide on that one (smiles). I'm just delighted to be able to get new music out there, and to work on a project that is so massive, so well thought out and so exciting. It's going to be a great feeling to be able to say I was a part of it."

Dreams of Monochromatic Visions is a folk pop song written by genre-defining superstar Katie Coyle. It sees the 20-year-old English singer return from almost a year on the sidelines with a track that is quintessentially her. With the acoustic guitar, slow and adventurous as ever, Katie's voice as smooth and haunting as it has always been, and a lyrical imagery that stands almost unopposed at the top of the game, this song is sure to remind all Katie Coyle fans why they fell in love with her following her debut in 2010. In terms of sound, the song is a folk pop crossover that brings the slow and deliberate finger picking of the former genre into the realms of the latter with an adventurous and bold ambition that has always been inherent in Katie Coyle music. The choruses are stripped back and bare as ever, allowing the lyrical imagery to shine through more prominently.

It is in the chorus that the song becomes perhaps more adventurous, with the dulcet guitar tones being backed by a string quartet and the gentle overtones of a piano. Katie's vocals become more fluid as she runs words together to create a sound that serves to bring the dream world she sings about in the song to life. These choruses sound a lot deeper, larger and more voluminous than much of her work of the past as she experiments with other types of instrument to bring a new sound to what she does. It has an almost dramatic sense of suspense and depth behind it. It suits the idea of a soundtrack well, with a gentle yet memorable sound that will stick in the mind of viewers and evoke a certain emotion and memory associated both with the show and Katie Coyle herself.

As the final chorus of the track comes to an end, the song turns instrumental. The string instruments and piano become far more prominent, sounding much louder than the guitar as it turns towards a sound that is almost classical in tone, yet curiously in keeping with what has come before it. For the final minute or so of the song, the strings and piano play through a range of swirling emotions, the fluidity of the former providing the notion once more of a world that exists only in a dream, beautiful, distant and dramatic. Meanwhile the piano almost punctuates the piece, directing emotion and leading the listener by hand throughout the vision of Katie Coyle, from sadness to happiness, from being lost to found and from desperation to ultimate success. The final notes of the song are gentle and long, played on a lonely violin as Katie's voice hums softly in the distance.

Everything Has an Ending

Artist name: Ryan Ross Hernandez
Genre: Folk rock, country rock, Americana
Track length: 4:17
Writer(s): Ryan Ross Hernandez
Producer(s): Ryan Ross Hernandez

Description:

Ryan Ross Hernandez brings the sounds that made his most recent LP a critical accalim, onto the soundtrack of his show. "Everything Has an Ending" is a ingratiating four-plus-minutes of foot tapping, acoustic strumming, guitar driven Americana music. His influnces remain close to home with the Young's and Dylan's of the world (the latter of which is referenced in a whimsical line along with his classic album "Blood on the Tracks".)

The singer-songwriter mourns the demise of a doomed relationship, while examining himself and his (repeated) actions that letdown the circle of his closes. It's not an entirely unheard subject matter for the 35 year old, but with each year he brings more of his maturity. And in a likely long sigh of relief, the track makes it clear that Hernandez's voice is back and can still compete with the best of them, with his vocal range that doesn't fether too high.

Lyrics:

So relax, take a breath, or another drag of your cigarette
I was just taking a trip down memory lane
Reminiscing on our better days we spent together
We use to own the night like stars of the night
You were the star that shinned as bright as you pleased

Your love turned into hate on that unfaithful day
You must wonder why I drowned out our love
We lost, we lost

I still pace around trying to figure out
Where things turned to a fall from grace out of our dream
Why should we pretend like we don't know?
Keep buying into your own notion
Well why don't you?

It seems everything I love I letdown or let go way too soon
My heart is heavy, thinking of each time I've repeated the same old cycle
Finding comfort in Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks"
I wish I had enough blood left to drain on the tracks

I'm just a man who goes around in circles wherever he roams
I'll find true love then make up an excuse I'll believe to leave
You should've known me better than that
Each fake smile and open-ended conversation gave me away

Your love turned into hate on that unfaithful day
You must wonder why I drowned out our love
We lost, we lost

I still pace around trying to figure out
Where things turned to a fall from grace out of our dream
Why should we pretend like we don't know?
Keep buying into your own notion
Well why don't you?

It seems everything I love I letdown or let go way too soon
My heart is heavy, thinking of each time I've repeated the same old cycle
Finding comfort in Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks"
I wish I had enough blood left to drain on the tracks

So relax, take a breath, or another drag of your cigarette

I'm waiting, waiting for the day I do not give up on you
I'm waiting, waiting for the day I do not give up on you

It seems everything I love I letdown or let go way too soon
My heart is heavy, thinking of each time I've repeated the same old cycle
Finding comfort in Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks"
I wish I had enough blood left to drain on the tracks

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