Gabrielle Aplin - An Underrated Music Genius

Yet again I found myself struggling to think of something to write about, and yet my mind didn't quite click to the fact my day has been a rather Gabrielle Aplin obsessed day, just working, milling around, endlessly strolling through Facebook and watching vines, all of which with the soundtrack of either Paolo Nutini or Gabrielle Aplin, and as much as I love Paolo Nutini, I have so much musical love for Gabrielle Aplin, right now. Every so often I just sit around listening to music, and enjoying the melodic tone of it, but there are days like today where I can do nothing but focus on the lyrics within a song, and appreciate them to their max, look them up and rejoice/cry over their genius. As much as Gabrielle is able to be appreciated as a musician to purely listen to in the background, I think its undeniable that once you hear just what she is saying you will also become even more obsessed than you may have previously been. Seriously this girl, and any other co-writers she works with have such a fantastic mind, the songs More Than Friends, Please Don't Say You Love Me and Salvation are 3 I especially love, here's just an example of how good these lyrics are;

More Than Friends:

"Let's stay awake for hours, just like we did back then. When you draw pictures on my hand in permanent marker pen. We watch the sun go down, but never fee the end. Cause I know the sun and darkness are more than friends" - The song is called More than Friends and to not mention the title until the description of 'Sun and Darkness' as being more than friends is just so lovely, it's a perfect way to write this kind of song without making overly predictable lyrics or cliche things, the song is beautiful and well written.

Please Don't Say You Love Me:

"Just please don't say you love me, cause I might not say it back, doesn't mean my heart stops skipping when you look at me like that, there's no need to worry when you see just where we're at, just please don't say you love me, cause I might not say it back" - I'm not even sure what I like about this in particular, it's just writing dealt with in a such a smooth manner, that makes even the most masculine butch man break down into a little "aww" even if it's inside hidden underneath...deep deep down underneath.

Salvation:

" I never meant to fall for you but I was buried underneath and all I could see was white, my salvation." - Again I'm not 100% sure what it is about this lyric, but it just seems so slick, this person who has fallen without agenda and can only 'see white' their 'salvation' is just perfect and realistic, compared to other overly flowery and a little fairytale-ish songs.

I guess the point in this blog was A) To have another post this week B) To say how much Gabrielle Aplin so awesome and C) To tell anyone who sees this to go and listen to some darn Gabrielle Aplin!! I have to stress these songs are not the only good ones, I have not found one of her songs that hasn't been good, these were just 3 of my favourites. She is utterly brilliant, and her remake of The Power of Love (Featured on John Lewis) shows just how good she is. Awesome. So good.

Til next time ,y'all.