Mariella has a secret !!! :O

Ok so if your unfamilliar with the work of Kate Nash that title will make no sense so I apologise now :P In less than 3 weeks I will go and see the lovely Kate Nash in Dublin and this article has inspired me to write about this amazing woman !!!!

I first discovered Kate Nash when she released Foundations and me and my sister would listen to it everytime we got in the car as it was our favourite song on Now 67 !!!! I can actually remember singing it as loud as we possibly could driving through some town on our way to waterford and just having such a good time. She is perhaps on par with P!nk, Lily Allen and Anistacia as one of my first idols !!!!!

I realised recentley I have a thing for ginger singers. Florence Welch, Paloma Faith and Janet Devlin (Yes I know she was originaly blonde) are all ginger singers whose voices I love but this love started with Kate. Her first album, Made of Bricks, is a whirl wind of sex, love, dickheads, mouthwash and birds !!! (The last 3 are song titles from the album in case your confused :P). The highlights on this album in my opinion have to:

1. Play: A three lined master piece that despite having only 3 lines repeated over and over again is still an anthem about being a freak !!!!!

2. Mariella: Another anthem of freakdom about a girl who "got some pritt stick and she glued her lips together" and who "marched to her wardrobe and threw away the colour. In my opinion this is a highlight as its like nothing you've heard before !!!!! :)

3. Birds: A beautiful song about a boy who uses birds as a metaphore for the love he feels for his partner. Its especially epic in the fact Nash managed to write a love song that includes the line "Birds can fly so high and they can shit on your head"

Nash's second album was impossibly enough better then Made of Bricks. My Best Friend is You is a mess of different techniques and experimental songs. Although in my opinion the album cover isn't half as beautiful as made of bricks the music is just so inspirational !!!! The highlights from My Best Friend is You are :



1. I've Got a Secret: Much like Play this song once again only has 3 lines !!!! I bet you can't guess what its about !!!!!! :P

2. Mansion Song: A significant track focused on the perception of women in todays society I love this song not for the sung part further into to the song but rather for the speech/rap which opens the song. Nash starts this track with a true bang with the line "I fancy the hip rock and role scenester, I wanna be fucked and then roled over cause I'm a independant woman of the 21st century". This is definitley for you if you have and interest in women in society. "The crowd go wild and things get ruder" !!!!!!!!! :P

3. Don't You Want To Share The Guilt: This track is honestly my favourite song by Nash. Once again its not particularly her singing but is instead her speech/rap the really intrigues me. A song about mental health Nash shouts about how hard life can be and describes thinking as "one of the most stressfull things I've ever come across" and questions why more people don't have more mental health problems. Really worth a listen.

... So willl you go listen to Kate now ???
....... Yes of course we will Toryn !!!!! :D
... Good my work here is done :)