AH-ZEE-LEE-YAH

On a lighter note from yesterday ( sorry about the rant!) the gal on my mind today has been Azealia Banks! Ever since seeing her in NME a few months ago and then finally hearing her elusive debut track 212 on Radio 1 in September, with over 40 changes having to be made to allow it on air,1 I have been a bit obsessed! I guess its kinda weird if you think about it, a 14 year old scholarship girl listening to a 20 year old potty mouth rapper from Harlem swearing at every given point and making vivid sexual references. But this girl can actually rap, sing, act and makes fucking good music which is pretty much unheard of nowadays thanks to Cheryl Cole and her followers of pop rejects. And the fact that she is continuously swearing, saying "imma ruin you cunt" doesn't make me want to stop listening to her, in fact it makes me want to listen to her more.

snapshot from the '212' video when Azealia is saying "what the fuck are you into huh" in this guys face ahahhaa

Soo today it was announced that Miss Banks had come third place in the BBC Sound of 2012 poll. I was kind of surprised that she didn't come first she is the freshest new talent we've had for a while anyway BBC's too mainstream for her hahaa lol, anyway I predict Spector to come first. They are completely different to Azealia's grime city vibe they have more of a 60s rock and roll Venice Beach theme with a husky indie twist, after all they are Dalston's superstars. Still she deserves this title and definitely deserved the no1 spot on NME's Cool List. C'mon she is the epitome of cool, rapping every single motherfucking swear word you could think of to mad backing of electronic beats, ( actually using some without permission ooohh) , while prancing around with a smile that your grandma would love. 

middle of the page, middle finger
thats how she rolls

This girl's going places... well she already has but ya know even more so. Azealia Banks went to LaGuardia High School in Manhattan, I know all I can think about is people jumping on tables in lunch and dancing exactly like Fame, and apparently according to an interview with the BBC it was exactly like that. After wanting to pursue an acting career she suddenly dropped out of school to take up her real passion: music. She got signed up by XL who then dropped her, hahahaa shame on you suckerss, and then recorded 212 which was the start of her rise to fame. 

Now she's recording a new album with producer Paul Epworth who worked with Florence Welch, another South East London girl like me. Can't wait to see Azealia on the NME Tour in February and see if her 'tude really lives up to all the hype.

LIQUORICE: HER NEW TUNEEEE

union jack like the spice girls
sequin glamour with attitude

brothel creepers, daisy dukes and nike
match made in heaven

green faux faur and stripy strapless
gotta love her 'stagewear'

wearing a crown cos she's the queen of cool
dont forget the signature mickey mouse icon

MAYHEM

So its been over a week since Christmas and everyone is going crazy already. We've had New Year mayhem and although everyone has made numerous resolutions, including my parents- "I must exercise, I must not each chocolate, I must lose a gazillion pounds" no one is doing anything to address the major problems of the UK at the moment. We have been warned that 2012 is going to be even tougher than 2011 due to the eurozone crisis and the heavily hitting recession that is engulfing everyone across the world. 2012 calls for more redundancies to be made across the nation;  however perhaps the Olympics will bring more revenue to the country although so far it has costing billions leading us even further into debt.

mate you got some work to do

The crazy thing is while this is all going on everyone is hitting the high streets and shopping in the sales spending hundreds of pounds on 'bargains'. To be fair I've done the same i got two t-shirts from Topshop, a pair of Chinese slippers and a pair of H&M cloggy sandals but ya know something has to be done when we are in this state of economy. A box just arrived for my mum from Space N.K filled to the brim with products, full of gift sets and miscellaneous items and she's claiming that 'its all from the sale darling and I ordered loads of gifts for different people'. Two words: BULL SHIT. People believe that they need an plausauble excuse to order masses of the internet and they don't but it just strikes me how unnescary all the sale items we buy are. So many people grab up dreadful items that are absolutely disgusting but because its £3 they suddenly feel the need to buy it.

The worst is the big designer sales at Harrods, Harvey Nics and Selfridges. Selfridges marked its first day of the sales on Boxing Day with its busiest ever single hour of trade in which £1.3 million was made! Masses queued outside for hours hoping to get a great bargain however this is really just a false hope. All these designer items are maybe 50% or 60% off but still if they were sold on the high street and you just removed the branding then they would be a third or less of their original price.  I know I say all this and the next year I will go back again and buy a considerable amount from the sales but all I can say that if the country is behaviving all manic and crazy about a few items of clothes going on sale, thousands queuing up hours before the shop opens and even two stabbings occuring then we really are in trouble when it comes to our economy.

shoppers running into Selfridges after queuing for hours
wooooooww