Look What You Could Make Them Do, Taylor [Repost]

The very title “Look What You Made Me Do” a new single from Taylor Swift, seems to imply that Swift was driven to hateful acts by malicious forces. That she is being bad because she is being forced to be bad, by the media or perhaps by whatever else is bothering her.

In advance, Swift’s audience is made up of a diverse group of people, but it still tends to be heavily composed of young women. According to Quantcast statistics from 2013, they’re likely to be college students 18 to 24 in age. That is a time when dating and mating and separating is as regular as getting a morning coffee. It is a turbulent, impressionable, painful period when facing conflict and knowing how to deal with it can cause great stress and confusion.

Swift has the potential to empower young women today. She proved as much in her recent trial with DJ David Mueller. During that trial — in which she contended that Mueller groped her while photographers snapped them together at a meet-and-greet event — she asked for $1 and said she went to court to “serve as an example to other women who may resist publicly reliving similar outrageous and humiliating acts,” according to legal documents. She won her case in a brave and dignified matter. The message that people should not grab you without your consent will resonate with thousands of young women.

It’s clear that Swift is a strong woman. And in 2017, a year when everyone seems to be openly yelling at everyone they dislike, it would be refreshing to see an influencer with a huge following (102 million on Instagram) not revel in spite. For someone with as many advantages and privileges as Swift, this is not a brave clap back to the haters. It seems like whining.

She has a very successful career. She is beloved by millions. No one can make her do anything. But if she allowed her music to have a social conscience and embrace forgiveness rather than fury, she could convince an entire generation of young women to take the moral high ground. Look what you could make them do, Taylor.

It would be nice to see Swift send out a healthier message to her fans. Instead, her new song endorses the idea that if you’re wronged, you should dwell on it for a very long time. You should come back far later — rising up from the dead if you have to!

Swift has an awful lot of fights with an awful lot of people (her all exes, Katy Perry, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West). And in her song, she offers only one way to deal with a falling out: Smear the other person. Blame them for everything that went wrong. Burn a bridge. Torch the relationship. The only path is scorched earth.

But you really don’t have to. You can forgive people and move on. Being the bigger person and forgiving has its own satisfactory quality. It might be an interesting one to explore in a song.

Reposted and summarized from: Taylor Swift's new song sends a dangerous message to her fans http://nyp.st/2gqhCU6

iBranding

Yeay, branding, when it's all about products, i do it a lot at my work in Marketing Communication. But when it's all about ourselves with no limitation, then we should think again.

We have been taught to show the best of us to the public ever since we were still a little kid. When we are at school, we are introduced to scoring and ranking system. When we graduate, we have to get a job by making the best cv and be the best candidate at the interview. Well, that's completely normal.

But when we have to brand ourselves all the time, even down to every private moments, isn't it exhausting?

Sadly, we are too busy making grand display of ourselves in medias, we forget taking care of our real life, dealing with the things that matter.
We can have bigger chance to be stronger or more intelligent by studying, rather than by posting a quiz result about it.
Sometimes we are so busy taking pictures and posting and checking in, we forget to enjoy the view.

We are busy trying to control what other people see in us, we forget that however we want to control all perspectives of other people, we just can't.
Haters gonna hate anyway. You cannot just make everybody happy.

But if there is still some part of you who want to try, yes, there's something we can do.
An attempt to take control of what other people see in us, is simply by improving our real personality, not necessarily just by updating our profile page.

Don't take this the wrong way, you can still have fun and post all the happy pictures or statuses of yours. What i am trying to say here, that the posting and the updating and the everybody else seeing part, are great (for fun), but none of them are the most important part.

The most important part is how we can see and improve ourselves and enjoy our life to the fullest. Do real good things to people. Make real contribution to the world. Start deleting your bad habits, not just your bad photos.

In the end, once a person told me:
It's not how people judge us that should be important, it is how we want them to see us that important.

Yes, by all the real things we do for ourselves.

Wordplaystationary

Wordplay - playstation - stationary

• Tomorrow is mayday, no i mean Monday.
• May the fourth be with you (on May 4th)
• Desc(end)er December
• Mery wishmas and happy Dew year!
• Red Riding Reindeer
• The wand that got away, in the spellementary school, witch marks the end of universe-ity.
• A hint of ginger scent linger on that singer's finger.
• The last lost list from that lone man lane was out of line.
• Emotion commotion
• You chicken out, i'll duck out.
• They rally at the alley.
• Fight or flight
• One might be a knight who fights for one night.
• One fine day to (be able to) find a day.
• Never let your dream be dream.
• Dream, drama, dilemma.
• Forget that forsaken thought for a second.
• Paralysis by over-analysis.
• It takes a man to make amends.

Even if it's not an ideal idea,

Just keep update it to beat outdated!

14 Votes For Four or More

Hey it's been a long time since i played any game here again. Turns out, now is a holiday, and it allows me to have a little spare time, and that's the reason i can be a lil' more productive again in this blog lately. Anyway, here is the thing, I am gonna mention the album with four or more great songs in it, off course according to my own version. Then I will make the rank of each songs within the album, one for my number one favorite song. The bigger the number, the less favorite the song is, but it's still the stand-out songs from the album as well. Maybe it can be your music inspiration to spend this holiday, who knows? So let me start with the album which has four stand-out songs first.


A Head Full of Dreams – Coldplay (2015)

Released on 4 December 2015, this album debuted atop the UK Albums Chart. It would have made Coldplay broke the record for becoming the second band in UK chart history (after Oasis) to do so with their first seven albums in a row.

1. Bird
2. Adventure of a Lifetime
3. Up & Up
4. X Marks the Spot

Black Holes and Revelations – Muse (2006)
The Starlight video features the band playing on an oil tanker ship at sea. Matt said in an interview back in 2006 that they were going to just shoot the video on blue screens in a studio, due to the fact that they couldn't get hold of a ship. However, a Japanese fan told Muse that they could borrow his dad's ship and hence the Starlight video was made.

1. Map of the Problematique
2. Starlight
3. Exo Politics
4. Supermassive Black Hole

Loose – Nelly Furtado (2006)
Even with the controversy over accusations of plagiarism on Timbaland's part in the song Do It, which contained the melody from Finnish musician Janne Suni's song Acidjazzed Evening, the album still managed to be the best-selling album of 2006–07, according to 2009 music update.

1. Promiscuous
2. Say It Right
3. Maneater
4. Do It

THE FIVE SQUADS

Motion – Calvin Harris (2014)
Despite not being released as a single, Faith reached number 31 on the US Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart and number 33 on the UK Dance Singles Chart.

1. Summer
2. Outside
3. Under Control
4. Blame
5. Faith

Clarity – Zedd (2012)

When Zedd listened to Foxes' song Youth, he skyped her and asked her to be the vocalist on Clarity. After Foxes did research on Wikipedia about Zedd, she accepted the offer. Clarity then won the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording at the 56th Grammy Awards, becoming their first win.

1. Clarity
2. Spectrum
3. Follow You Down
4. Hourglass
5. Stay the Night

In My Own Words – Ne Yo (2006)

Eventhough the album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 301,000 copies sold, the first single, Stay, was not as successful as its successors, being Ne Yo's only song so far to not chart on the Billboard Hot 100.

1. Stay
2. Sexy Love
3. Let Go
4. So Sick
5. Time

Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! – Hellogoodbye (2006)

The album debuted at No. 13 on the US Billboard 200 albums chart and on No. 1 at the US Internet albums chart. This response surprised executives at their record company, reminded that Hellogoodbye was an unknown indie band on their first attempt to break international market.

1. Here (In Your Arms)
2. Oh, It Is Love
3. Baby, It’s Fact
4. All of Your Love
5. Touchdown Turnaround (Don’t Give Up on Me)

Songs About Jane – Maroon 5 (2002)
The album was actually a sleeper hit at first, with help of five singles that attained chart success, including the Billboard hit Harder to Breathe and international hits This Love and She Will Be Loved. It was then re-released on October 14, 2003 and became a huge international success, topping the album charts in Australia, France, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland and the UK.

1. Shiver
2. This Love
3. She Will Be Loved
4. Sunday Morning
5. Through With You

THE SIX SQUADS

18 Months – Calvin Harris (2012)

The album includes the singles Bounce, Feel So Close, Let's Go, We'll Be Coming Back, Sweet Nothing, Drinking from the Bottle, I Need Your Love and Thinking About You. All eight of the aforementioned singles, along with We Found Love (featuring Rihanna), all reached the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart, making 18 Months to be the first album in history to spawn nine top-10 singles.

1. Sweet Nothing
2. Feel So Close
3. We’ll Be Coming Back (Michael Woods Remix)
4. Thinking About You
5. Drinking From The Bottle
6. Bounce

Red – Taylor Swift (2012)
The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, giving Swift her third consecutive album chart topper in the US. Its first week sales of 1.21 million, was the third biggest debut in history for a female artist and became the fastest-selling album in over a decade.

1. The Last Time
2. Everything Has Changed
3. 22
4. I Knew You Were Trouble
5. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
6. Red

Teenage Dream The Complete Confection - Katy Perry (2012)

After its singles California Gurls, Teenage Dream, Firework, E.T., and Last Friday Night (TGIF) each reached the top of the US Billboard Hot 100, the album became the second album in history to produce five number-one singles on the chart after Michael Jackson's Bad.

1. Last Friday Night (TGIF)
2. The One That Got Away
3. Wide Awake
4. E.T
5. Part of Me
6. Fireworks

THE SEVEN SQUADS

A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out – Panic At The Disco (2006)

The group formed in 2004 and began posting demos online, which caught the attention of Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz. The album was recorded on a small budget but then it became a commercial success. Billboard, ten years after its release, deemed it "one of the most polarizing albums of our time."  In September 2011, I Write Sins Not Tragedies won MTV's Best Music Video for the 2000s as well as Best Music Video Of All Time based on online voting.

1. Nails For Breakfast, Tacks For Snack
2. Time To Dance
3. I Write Sins Not Tragedy
4. But It’s Better If You Do
5. Camisado
6. There’s a Good Reason, These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven’t Thought of It Yet
7. Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off

Future Sex / Love Sound – Justin Timberlake (2006)
The album's first three international hits Sexy Back, My Love and What Goes Around Comes Around which all peaked at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, giving Timberlake credit as the only artist to achieve such feat since Usher. Aside from earning critical acclaim, in 2007, Timberlake is ranked among Time magazine's 100 men and women "whose power, talent or moral example is transforming the world."

1. My Love
2. Damn Girl
3. Pose
4. Sexy Back
5. Love-stoned / I Think That She Knows
6. Summer Love
7. What Goes Around Comes Around

THE WINNER

The 20/20 Experience: The Complete Experience – Justin Timberlake (2013)

The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 968,000 copies – the biggest sales week of the year, becoming Timberlake's best-selling debut week of his solo career. The 20/20 Experience became the best-selling album of 2013 in the US, additionally becoming the Billboard Year-End number-one album. The music video for Suit & Tie was directed by an Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winning director David Fincher.

1. Tunnel Vision
2. Strawberry Bubblegum
3. Suit and Tie
4. Electric Lady
5. Gimme What I Don’t Know (I Want)
6. Cabaret
7. TKO
8. Don’t Hold The Wall
9. Take Back The Night

The winning album doesn't necessarily be the best album. It's just lucky enough to have the most amount of interesting song in it. And coincidentally, i am a fan of Justin Timberlake, so please just pardon me about the result. Anyway, it's almost christmas, surely you have known the most suitable gift for me, hmm maybe the latest album from this post, lol just kidding. So do you also have a preferred album which contains a lot of interesting songs according to your version?

Ten

The sound of the fireworks in the sky is so loud, but it weirdly makes people happy. Meanwhile she is leaning on the wall of that balcony with mix up feeling. She closes her eyes. She used to wait for ten in her calendar to meet this guy. She cannot believe that it must be over now. Ten times, ten great memories. Is it really a perfection? She opens her eyes and stares at his eyes. Yes, perfection..

But like any other magical moment in this world, they both know that it should be over. It's ten already. It's over..

Nine

"Oh my God, i am so grateful that it's over!" She said it to him while they took a walk outside the theater.
"I know right! I have no idea how an action movie could be this bored, we should just leave a long time ago!" He added "i have stared you for much longer and never been bored, and i don't have to pay for that."

Eight

"I cannot believe it has to be over now. It was fun back there."
"I am sorry that your favorite band didn't show up." He glanced back at his watch.
"Your favorite band didn't show up too."
"Ya like Coldplay would play here." He laughed. "Wait up, it's 12 already!"

He put a CD, then Magic by Coldplay was played on the tape. This song is her favorite song from his favorite band. Way greater to replace the usual-cheesy-happy birthday song.

"Call it magic.. Call it true.. Call it magic, when i'm with you.."
Yes, it's magic but it wasn't real.

"Happy birthday to you, i know we only have two more tens, and just so you know, i never feel this way before, feeling this free before. I can be whoever i ever wanted to be. Thanks to you, thanks to this.." He smiled "perfection." He kissed her in the forehead and said goodbye.

Seven

"Okay, so you think you can beat me." He put on his helmet.
"Yeah, don't you think that i am a girl, so i'll be suck at sport" She teased him. He laughed and kept boasting around.

"Ready, set, GO!"

She rode her bicycle as fast as she could. He was left behind, made her laughed so badly.

Six

"Fries!"
"Gosh Chris you really know how to boost this mood up again."
"Eat this while you make up story which describe your unhappiness"
"None of this would be true, you know that, are you still okay with that?" She hesitantly asked.
"Ya whatever way to lighten your burden."

Five
Her phone rang, it's Chris.
"Hey, i know you're still out of town, we can postpone this." She answered the phone.
"Hey Fries! Turn around now." He responded on the phone but she heard his voice even closer.

She couldn't believe of what she just saw, he was right behind her. Behind that glass door. She opened it, asked him to come in.

"Whoa Chris, you said you would be out of town today."
"Ya i do, but it's ten, so i take the fastest flight to come back here." He looked so tired. "And it's a real story this time"
"Well, thank you.."

Four

"Can i have this dance?" He asked.
"Sure." She smiled and stepped up to the center of the party. It's been a long time since Prom.

Three

"I grew up on a beach, i used to help my dad went sailing on the sea, went fishing all day, we used to come home and asked mom to cook the fish we got back there." He told it with a lot of enthusiasm in his face.
"Wow, nice story, but I grew up in a mountain, i used to play with wolf at midnight." She teased him, they laughed.

They knew none of that stories were real.

Two

"Hey, it's awkward. I don't know anything about you, and you don't know anything about me. I could be a serial killer, you know." He teased her.
"Ya it's hard to believe then." She laughed at his big stomach. "You wanna know about me? Yeah i guess we should start to make up our own story. Use your imagination, be creative." She challenged him.
"Great idea!" He looked so spiritful. "Just so you know, i am not a serial killer. I am a front-runner of my band, Coldplay" he laughed. That old joke, she laughed so hard she was gonna fall off her chair.

One

"Hey, i couldn't help but see that it's your third french fries and you are sitting here by yourself. Do you wait for someone?"
"Hey i am so sorry i couldn't speak with a stranger right now. I am a silly girl who wait for her ex right at this very bar, still can be lied on the third times. Look, old story, he doesn't show up! Again! I am tired of this thing."
"Whoa slow down, calm yourself. I know it's too awkward to tell your whole life to a stranger, but believe me, i know what it feels like. I just got off a five years relationship." He replied.
"I am so sorry to hear that, it sucks right! Sometimes i just hate how he could change from a perfection to someone i barely know anymore."
"You know, i've been adored this girl for two years before i had the chance to be in a relationship with her. She was so perfect before. Then we had the relationship, started getting to know the real her. She is no longer a perfection. Then issues showed up everywhere, even the smallest one. Sometimes, i just wish that we didn't share anything, so she still could be.."
"A perfection.." She chimed.
"Exactly." He replied.

"Hey, how if we have fun a little bit, how if we try to have this perfection we were talking about?" She got an idea. "I don't know you, you don't know me. I see that we both attracted to each other. It's perfect!" She finished her line.
"How can we do that? If we date then the whole mess would be repeated itself. I would eventually know you at last, and so do you. We cannot just go on dates and know nothing, right?" He looked so attached to her idea yet confused at the same time.
"It's ten now, we would go on dates every tenth day of the month. By that following date, we should never told anything true about ourselves, we could be anything we wanted to be. We could make up any story we wanted to."
"Wow, great idea! I am so excited!" He added "but we couldn't keep tell lies about ourselves forever. There would be a time when the wall is gonna fall apart, someday. If you know what i mean."

"I guess we would do ten dates. By the tenth date, we would say goodbye and it's still a perfection.." She might sound true this time.

"Deal! I guess i would call you Fries!" He teased her.
"And what should i call you?" She asked back.
"You can call me Chris Martin." He shook her hand.
"Aha, i met a Coldplay fans. I really love Magic from their new album Ghost Stories."
"Yes, Magic is a great song, i have to admit. You have a good taste of music." He nodded. "It's nice to meet you Fries."
"Yes, it's my pleasure Chris, we"ll meet again next month on ten ya."

And that's how it began. As it goes, she profoundly realize, this thing between her and Chris would end eventually.

Yes ended, with perfection..

Not A Commercial 3: MAY be a little late

It is no longer May 23rd, right?

        
Well, in this case, it is not a scene from the movie (500) Days of Summer.
 

The Third Chance

I am looking at that wide green grass field beside me from inside the window. Imagining a face which somehow, as time goes by, starting to fade away.

It's difficult to remember it. I'm closing my eyes..

-----
 
"Mr. Bobby?"
That sound's ended my thought as I startled and looked at the barista's face in front of me.

"Your order, Caramel Machiato, low or regular sugar?"
"One regular please."
"Okay, please wait a second."

I waited on the line and looked around.
Then there's this pretty girl on the line beside me, waited for her coffee as well.

"Hey, hiking bag? Do you happened to go to climb Titlis as well?"
"Oh hi there, no I didn't. I'll climb the Alpen. Nice to meet you by the way."

She then pulled out the thing that I would considered to be the prettiest smile I've ever seen in the next several minutes later.

"Mr. Bobby, your machiato's ready."
"Oh yes, okay here's my money, take the changes." I suddenly felt so nervous, it's difficult for me to concentrate.

"Please move away if you have finished, so the people behind you can move forward." said the barista, reminded me of how much time has been spent as I stood there in front of cashier and did nothing.

"Okay, nice to meet you too." I said awkwardly to that girl and went out of the coffee shop.

I walked to my train gate then realized that it was my friend who bought and brought my ticket. I couldn't get through the gate, but then I decided to wait on the line anyway. The line was pretty long and if I had to wait for my friend to be here to start queuing, then I would have been left long way behind. A good decision though as --not long after that, I saw my friend came and he snuck up to join me on the line. As I turned my head behind, I saw that pretty girl far behind my line, waited for the same gate-- meant the same train.

What should I suppose to do!

-----


That green grass field is really wide. What a beautiful view! The kind of view you'll seldom see on a big city. Yes, I live in a big city, exactly at the center of Lucerne. I am bored to always see the city's skyscrapers so then I made a plan with some office mates to arrange a tour to conquer one of the highest mountain in Switzerland, mount Titlis. Yes, then I'm here, right at this train.

But my purpose has changed. That girl with a beautiful smile changes my head, changes the view.

The fact that we are in this exact same train is haunting my head. Was she that special till I should search the whole compartment? I don't even know her name.
I don't know what to do. Suddenly this whole beautiful view is fading away, like the way her face's starting to fade away right know.

I am closing my eyes.
God, please give me the second chance..




"Mr. Bobby?"
"Yeah?"
"Your machiato is ready."

I look beside me. She is here! I scratch my eyes, cannot believe of what I have just seen.
Hey! I cannot find a word. I start to panic.

"Please move away if you have finished, so the people behind you can move forward." says the barista.

"Okay nice to meet you too" what a dumb word to be said, I think that as I go outside the coffee shop.

But now I know, she will be on the line behind me in a few minutes. The new spirit starts to rise and moves my mind. The rush of endorphine fills up my head. My friend hasn't come yet, but I still queue in the train gate anyway. There he is! He sneaks up the line and give me my train ticket.

"Hey bro, wait a second."
I say it to my friend as I wait in the corner until that girl shows up in the line, moves forward passes me.

"Hey you again!" I smile to that girl, she looks like she doesn't realize that I am purposely there, wait for her.
"Hey you, the guy at the coffee shop! We meet again" She pulls out the same smile, over again. I feel like two smiles still isn't enough. I want more.
"Yeah, looks like we board on the same train, what a coincidence! What number on your train seat by the way?" I try to ask as cool as I can be.
"Well, I don't know, my friend held my ticket for me-- hey wait up!" She shouts to her friend who walks and leaves her behind.
"Sorry I must go." She points her friend then hurrying moves forward, walks faster to go after her friend.

I really am disappointed as I weakly walk to the train, watch her disappear into the crowd of other passengers. My second chance is over.

I am watching the train window, blankly seeing the landscape. The beautiful view that would have increased my enthusiasm before. But I don't see anything instead now.

The green wide grass field doesn't distract my mind out off her. I'm starting to imagine everything's fading away again and I'll get the third chance.

The third chance? I don't know.
I have blown off my first and second chance, why should I get another one?