My Workout Playlist.

 Recently, since I've been back from college, I've been going hard in terms of working out.

Just like many other people I find motivation from music.

Down below are some of the songs that typically get played while I'm at the gym.

What are some of your top songs to workout to ?

-JustANewYorkGirl

Tunes Tuesday !

I knew that today was gonna be a pretty big music release day, but I don't think I actually realized exactly how huge and all over the place, genre wise, it was gonna be. 

First up are a couple of albums and EPs that have been released that I'm really feeling.

I'm so glad that Tori is finally getting recognition and more original music out. I've been following her from her YouTube for a couple years now. Now she's releasing her first, signed to a label, EP, but second EP. You can check out the first one here. Self-written and produced, she can only go up from here.

I really love all the songs on this EP but definitely the ones that I find myself playing back again are 'Rocket' and 'Paper Hearts'.

But 'Dear No One' will still have a very special place in my iTunes library. And this song is actually iTunes Single of the Week, so you can check out the song before you check out the EP here.

           
                           

3 years since Teenage Dream, Katy Perry has definitely made this album a step up. If she wanted to, any one of these songs on her album could be a hit single.

And with that being said I'm finding it really hard to pick one song of this album that I would call my 'favorite'. Even though I've listened to the album a couple times, I still feel as if I haven't actually heard it all thru yet. With a couple more listens I know I'll be able to pick a favorite.

As of right now, I'm really liking this album, and you can see the growth from her last album to now.

She deserves all the success she's has and will receive with Prism.

You can get Prism here.

This one is dedicated to the luck people in the UK that were luck enough to get not just one but basically two albums from Lawson, and rest of us around the world that are just sitting and waiting. Chapman Square Chapter II is basically a super deluxe version of Chapman Square. Containing the original 14 songs, the group has added 6 new songs, and 3 new acoustic versions of their songs.

These new 6 songs are definitely a different sound for them giving them a more Pop/R&B kinda of sound, especially with the song 'Love Locked Out', which I have to say is one of my favorites from the new 6 songs.

And if you haven't heard Chapman Square you can check out the original songs and the new songs below.

  

Next up are my picks for singles of the week.

First in this section is Fifth Harmony, 

And yes I do realize that they also released an EP today as well.

But I was just excepting something a little different, I thought it was gonna be a bit more mature but I just feel like it's aimed more towards their younger fans. But out of the 6 songs on the EP, the one song that stood out to me is 'Leave My Heart Out Of This'. To me this is what I expected in terms of it sounding mature. Check it out and let me know what you think.

Check out the rest of the EP and let me know what you think.

Was it what you expected or where you looking for something different ?

My next pick for single of the week is Trevor Jackson with his new single, 'Superman'.

Okay, so I don't even remember how I stumble upon him but I'm glad I did. The first song I heard was Drop It, and I just gravitated to his voice. And for some reason he reminds me of a mash-up of Chris Brown and Trey Songz (vocally). But this is an artist that I can see big things happening for them in the near future. But I definetly recommend checking out both songs, if you haven't heard of either.

Superman - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/superman-single/id725115546

Drop It - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/drop-it-single/id673524838

And their's probably so many others that I haven't mentioned like Love Don't Die from The Fray, Long Live Rock & Roll from Daughtry, The Keeper from Kina Grannis & Marie Digby and a bunch of others. But if I did add everything else, this may just become the world's longest post in blog history.

Let me know of some albums, EPs, or singles that you think I haven't check out.

Damn this was a busy Tuesday,

But,

Until next time,

JustANewYorkGirl

My Road Trip Playlist.

For me I can only handle long drives if I occupy my time with music.

This is maybe one of the most randomist (if thats even a word) playlist I have come up with. It's basically a little bit of everything on my iPod but more so songs with a big beat to keep me awake through the long drive (I hear its like 24 hours), I also have a lot of summer songs from summers past and every so often there's a really random song that I have just been loving lately. And even with this playlist I'm probably going to search outside of the playlist to find a song that I just really want to hear. 

But here are just a few from my "Road Trip Playlist" in alphabetical order :

After Shock - Demi Lovato

All Fired Up - The Saturdays

All In My Head - Tori Kelly

All of the Light - Kanye West

Always Be My Baby - Mariah Carey 

(Cause what's a car playlist without songs to sing along to)

American Girl - Bonnie McKee

Angel With A Shotgun - The Cab

(I actually have quite a few The Cab songs here)

Animal - Conor Maynard

Beautiful - Ben Rector

(This is one of those random songs)

Behind Bars - The Wanted

(I have quite a bit of The Wanted too)

Below My Feet - Mumford & Sons

Best Song Ever - One Direction

(I'd be lying if I said I didn't like this song)

Bleeding Love - Leona Lewis

(Another one of those sing-a-long songs)

Bleeding Out - Imagine Dragons

Born For This - Paramore

Breathe Your Love - Jasmine V

Breathless - Acceptance

Bring It All Home - Dappy

Brokenhearted - Lawson ft. B.o.B

Call My Name - Cheryl Cole

Can't Pretend - Tom Odell

Changed The Way You Kiss Me - Example

Chaos - Mute Math

Clarity - Zedd ft. Foxes

Climb On Board - Labrinth

Control - Metro Station

Counting Stars - OneRepublic

Dead and Gone - The Black Keys

Didn't Mean It - Jasmine V

Disaster - JoJo

Disco Inferno - 50 Cent 

(This is really random but this song just gets me hype)

DNA - Little Mix

Do Me No Favors - Sammy Rae

(A friend of mine, don't know who she is go check her out)

Do Not Disturb (Tell Me How Bad) - Let's Get It

Drinking from the Bottle - Calvin Harris ft. Tinie Tempah

A Drop In The Ocean - Ron Pope

Drop It - Trevor Jackson

Drown Me Out - Ed Sheeran ft. Ghetts

(I have this whole EP here, No.5 Collaboration Project)

Drunk Dial - Ed Drewett

Earthquake - Labrinth ft. Tinie Tempah

Faces - Ed Sheeran & Yelawolf

Fall Into The Sky - Zedd ft. Ellie Goulding

Fences - Paramore

First Time - Jonas Brothers

Hell Yeah - Midnight Red

Hey Sexy Lady - I Square

Hit Me Where It Hurts The Most - Every Avenue

Hush Hush - The Spill Canvas

I Write Sins Not Trageties - Panic! At The Disco

(One of my "summers past" songs)

Is This Love - Aiden Grimshaw

Jump - Rihanna

Laserlight - Jessie J ft. David Guetta

Learn To Love Again - Lawson

Level Up - Sway

Long Way Down - Timbaland ft. Daughtry

Loverboy - You Me At Six

Mad Man - The Wanted

Make The Money - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

The Mixed Tape - Jack's Mannequin

(For me this song just screams road trip)

Monster - Professor Green ft. Example

Neon Lights - Demi Lovato

Nobody's In Love - 2AM Club

Poison - Rixton Cover

Pompeii - Bastille

R.I.P - Rita Ora ft. Tinie Tempah

Reload - Wiley ft. Chip

Sail - AWOLNATION

Shake It - Metro Station

(Another Summer throwback)

So Appalled - Kanye West

Such Great Heights - The Postal Service

Superbad (11:34) - Travie McCoy

Swoon - Timeflies

Take You Down - JLS

This Is What It Feels Like - Armin Van Buuren

Too Close - Alex Clare

Turn It Up - Timeflies

Undercover -Selena Gomez

The Way - Ariana Grande ft. Mac Miller

Without You - Ben Rector

(At the moment this is one of my favorites)

Wonderful - Angel

Worry About You - Tyler James

Yin Yang - Dappy

Young - Tulisa

3D - JLS

Now the full playlist has about 230 songs, 14 and a half hours of music. Perfect for such a long drive. But if you want to see the other songs thats in the playlist let me know in the comments and I'll post the rest.

-JustANewYorkGirl