My Top 3 Smaller Musicians

September 27, 2015

I'm the kind of person who loves finding new music and not only do I love finding new music but I also love discovering smaller musicians. This could be someone who as just started out in the in the industry creating professional music or it could be someone who sits in their room filming videos of them covering songs and singing originals. For me, finding new music is like Christmas, it's such a great feeling, and so I thought I would share with you three of my favourite smaller musicians.

1) Sarah Close
Sarah is a 21 year old London based singer songwriter, she posts weekly covers onto her YouTube channel along with the vlog style video too! Covers to watch include: Hold Me Down, Best Mistake, and Take Me To Church. You can find Sarah on YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram.

2) Conor Scott
Conor is probably best known for his audition on the BBC talent show The Voice, where he got through to the knock-out rounds in team Danny. Since then the 20 year old has been in the studio and last October released a three track EP, you can also hear more of his music and covers on YouTube too! Songs to listen to include: Watch Me Go, Time and Time Again, and Please Be. You can find Conor on Twitter and Instagram mainly.

3) Keaton Henson


Keaton is a 27 year old Folk-Rock musician from London. Arguably, he isn't as small as the other two artists that I have shared with you but he isn't the most well known artists and so I decided he still deserved a place in my list. Whenever I recommend his music to my friends they seem to love it, there is something so hauntingly beautiful about the music hat he creates. Songs to listen to: Small Hands, Sweetheart What Have You Done To Us, and 10am Gare Du Nord. You can find Keaton on YouTube, and Spotify.

Girls Don't Dress Up For You.

September 11, 2015

(Apologies in advance for the messiness of this post, it's more for me to get things off my mind and vent than anything, but if it helps some people in the process then thats great!)

'Girls wouldn't get dressed up nicely if they didn't want us guys to stare at them' is something that was contributed to one of my media class discussions this week and it's really stuck with me. This idea that girls dress up for attention and to be admired by others is not something that is true in any way, or at least for many people anyway.

Take the youtube and blogging fashion and makeup community for example, that is a huge collection of people that are interested in the topics that they talk about. They talk about these things because they make them happy and give them some form of confidence boost. We don't spend hours writing blog posts and reviewing beauty products for men to enjoy (but I'm not saying they can't because some guys do enjoy watching these videos), it's because this is something that we really love (oh wow, I think I've made that point about three times already but it's important for people to understand). It's not like I spend ridiculous amounts of money on makeup just to look good, because that's really not the reason that I do it. It's because it is almost a form of art, makeup is fun and wonderful to play about with, it can give me a confidence boost on the days when I'm feeling a little crappy and just makes me feel much more me.

And yet media has made it so that men think that everything women do is for their pleasure, and when the suggestion comes about that perhaps it isn't all for male pleasure and that we can do what we want with our bodies they begin to get defensive. This idea that they have a say in what we do and the reasons that we do it is ridiculous.

In my media class the other day we watched a series of commercials by Dove (a skincare company) where even they gave this idea that women do things for men, that they wanted to reveal skin for men to enjoy looking at them. This male gaze is everywhere in the media and has been for as long as anyone can remember really. Women are always sexualized and portrayed to be this item that appeals to men and falls at their feet at their every word, we aren't. Women are strong and independent, we don't do things for anyone but ourselves.

To conclude I am going to leave this messy post with a quote that summaries what I have been attempting to talk about in this post perfectly. 

"Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves and, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys they’d just walk around naked at all times" - Betsey Johnson.

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