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Florence + The Machine “Hardest of Hearts”

This year’s ‘M Girl Crush award’—a prestigious title if ever there was one—goes to Florence Welch.  I don’t care what anyone says, Florence + The Machine is the shit. I can’t wait to see her and hear her fantastic pipes in the flesh. I’m one of those people who, when I hear the term ‘pop music’, usually experiences a shiver that means eek i effing hate that…because it brings to mind how people are allowed to become super rich and famous for singing (not writing) absolute crap that makes me want to punch something. But Florence isn’t that kind of pop star. Florence is what makes being a pop star still an okay thing in my books. This woman brings so much more to the table. 

Florence + The Machine’s songs, like her voice, are epic. I might throw that word around a little too often, but in Florence’s case I really mean it. She sings songs that you want to dance and scream along to, but they’re full of intricate and fantastic analogies and imagery that make them incredibly dramatic.  She doesn’t just sing, she knows how to write too. Love—whether the falling in or the falling out of it—gets sung about more than anything else, but rarely is it captured with such reckless abandon. Even more rarely is it captured by such a beautiful and powerful voice. She just perfectly articulates the intensity of those feelings in what I see as a ‘mad fairytale’ kind of way. I love the way she spins love in the most dark, polarized, and monumental way. My only complaint when it comes to Florence is that I wish she’d hurry up and release some more music. I’ve already devoured Lungs as much as it can be eaten up, and I’m hungry for more.

I’ll leave it at that, because you’ve all likely heard Florence belting her beautiful tunes, but I seriously can’t wait to sweat my face off stomping my feet in the mud and screaming along to every song from Lungs, every cover she does, and even that song from Twilight. Yeah, I went there. Like the woman (goddess) herself, I am sure it will be… epic. 

I’ll leave you with just a FEW of my favourite words from the lovely Flo…

The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out. You left me in the dark.

No dawn, no day. I’m always in this twilight

-Cosmic Love

there is love in your body but you can’t get it out, it gets stuck in your head won’t come out of your mouth. sticks to your tongue, shows on your face, the sweetest of words have the bitterest taste

-Hardest of Hearts

You can’t save me now, I belong to the hurricane

-Hurricane Drunk

I must become the lion hearted girl, ready for a fight

-Rabbit Heart

and last 

No nore dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone

No more calling like a crow for a boy, for a body in the garden

No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love

No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world

-Blinding  

-M