My Favourite Album of 2014!

My dear friend Joe nominated me to do this blog (Check out his blog!), and even though I hate him for putting me through the agony of picking my favourite album of 2014, I think it is such a good idea! Well done Joe 😉

The reason why I said it was agony of picking my favourite album is because this year has been an incredible year for some musicians, producing some top quality albums.  2014 was the year for newcomers and these newcomers certainly put their stamp on the music world. Sam Smith, who was announced the winner of the Brits 2014 Critics’ Choice award for 2014, released his debut album ‘In The Lonely Hour’ in May this year. ‘Lay Me Down’ is my favourite track on his album. Ariana Grande’s second studio album ‘My Everything’ came out in August and established Ariana as a major force in the music industry. Without a doubt, ‘Just A Little Bit Of Your Heart’ is my favourite song , which was penned by One Direction’s Harry Styles. It’s been two years since Ella Henderson appeared on the UK X Factor and many critics had questioned if the two year gap would be a good decision for her career, but Ella proved them wrong with her debut album ‘Chapter One‘, with every song written or co-written by Ella herself. In the first week, her album went straight into number one, making Simon Cowell a very happy man! Remember her arena audition where she sang her own song that took everyone’s breath away? Well Ella recorded that beautiful song and put it on the album and ‘Missed’ is undeniably my favourite track of hers. The treasured artists of the music industry also made sure they were heard this year with their outstanding albums. Ed Sheeran released his highly anticipated second album ‘X’ in June, and to date, it has been the most streamed album on Spotify of 2014, with over 400 million streams. Apart from ‘Thinking Out Loud’, my favourite song is ‘Tenerife Sea’. One of my queens Jessie J dropped her third studio album ‘Sweet Talker’. The leading single of the album, ‘Bang Bang’, made Jessie world renowned and is her most successful single to date. The success of this hit single made her album a chart topping album. Although ‘Bang Bang’ is the tune that has me running to the dance floor, my stand out song on the album is ‘Sweet Talker’. Many would say that 2014 was the year of Taylor Swift and her fifth studio album, ‘1989‘. This album is her first official pop album, having been a country-pop crossover artist on her previous albums. The stats establish that Swift done right by making this album as it is the best selling album of 2014. I have two favourite songs from ‘1989‘, they are ‘Wildest Dreams’ and ‘Wonderland’.

One Direction’s fourth consecutive album ‘Four’ is an extremely close runner up to my favourite album of the year (I mean it, the only difference is like 0.01%). Personally, I believe ‘Four’ is their best album. Like many of the critics, I believe this album shows maturity (apart from ‘Act My Age’, but we ALL secretly love that tune!!) and growth for the band, with a more rockier sound. The boys wrote 9 of the songs on the album, and even got Ed Sheeran to pen another song for them. Cosmopolitan clearly agree with me as they have named it number eleven on the 20 Best Album’s for 2014 list! Once again, stats confirm that One Direction aren’t going to be disappearing any time soon, as the album went straight in at number one in over 100 countries!! The song that gets me feeling warm and fuzzy is ‘Night Changes’, it is such a beautiful song and shows off everyone’s vocals.

But my album of the year goes to the real breakthrough artists of the year, 5 Seconds of Summer! It was probably obvious I was going to chose them, I never shut up about them and have been promoting them for nearly 3 years to everyone! If you don’t already know, I adore these guys a crazy amount (I have travelled more times to see them live than any other band to date!). If you’ve been hiding under a rock and have no idea who they are or want to refresh your memory of who they are, check out my previous blog on them!

The Australian pop punk band (NOT A BOYBAND) released their self titled debut album  ‘5 Seconds of Summer’  in June and within one week of it’s release in America, it charted in the number one spot in the Billboard 200, selling over 260,000 copies. 5 Seconds of Summer proved they were to be taken seriously in the music industry and soon became one of the most sought after bands at all music award ceremonies such as the MTV Music Awards and the ARIA Awards, entitling them to perform in front of some of the mega stars in the music industry. But it was them touring with One Direction on their tours ‘Take Me Home’ in 2013 and ‘Where We Are’ in 2014 that gave the platform for the Aussies to make a name for themselves. They soon became pals with All Time Low’s Alex Gaskarth and co-wrote a few songs with him. ‘She Looks So Perfect‘ was the lead single of the album and no doubt was one of the songs of 2014! The boys wrote the majority of the songs on the album, all bar two in fact, with ‘Amnesia’ wrote by the Madden Brothers and their cover of The Romantic’s ‘What I Like About You’.  With songs like ‘Don’t Stop‘, ‘Good Girls‘, ‘18‘ and ‘End Up Here‘ proving their little cheeky personalities in their song writing and showing they are more All Time Low than One Direction. But these four pretty boys have an emotional side too, and this is evident in their tunes like ‘Long Way Home‘, ‘Beside You‘ and ‘Everything I Didn’t Say’. While writing this blog, I asked my mum what my favourite 5 Seconds of Summer song was (thinking it would make it easier for me) but she had them same answer as I first came up with and that is that I actually like them all and can’t choose a favourite. Although, after two consecutive listens to the album, I came to the conclusion that my top five favorite songs are ‘End Up Here’, ‘Good Girls’, ‘Long Way Home’, ‘Heartbreak Girl’ and ‘Beside You’ (Can I just say I absolutely love every 5 Seconds of Summer song on this album? Because I do!!)

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If there is one thing I love more than lots of 5 Seconds of Summer songs, it’s hearing 5 Seconds of Summer live and they answered all my dreams in December this year when they released ‘LIVESOS’. This is their first live album and contains 14 songs, including ‘Disconnected‘, ‘Out of My Limit‘ and their cover of Green Day’s ‘American Idiot‘.

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So there you have it, my favourite album of 2014 belongs to 5 Seconds of Summer. In my eyes, 2014 belonged to those guys!

So, what was your favourite album of 2014? Comment below 🙂

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My weekend at X Factor.

For my 21st birthday, my parents surprised me with a weekend away at Wembley in London, the home of Simon Cowell’s baby, The X Factor. Everyone knows how much of an X Factor addict I am and have been since 2005, from that embarrassing Shayne Ward crush, to that little obsession with Eoghan Quigg and  the obvious, the rollercoaster ride my boys One Direction caused me back in 2010, I’ve been through it all. So for my birthday, my Mum had applied for tickets to the actual shows but that is a long complicated story and basically I didn’t see the show. But who cares, I still had one awesome weekend!

Early on Friday morning (when I say early, I mean really early. It was 3:30 am when I left my house and my flight was at 7am!!), I flew from Dublin to London all excited for what the weekend had in store for me.

We arrived at Fountain Studios around 12pm (after my very blonde moment of not noticing where the studios were, even though I had passed them twice and there is a BIG sign saying fountain studios on the side off the building – insert monkey covering eyes emoji here!!) and this is when all the fun started! Surprisingly, there was only 7 of us outside the studios, I had imagine the place would be swarmed with crying 14 year olds. Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan seem to be missing the studios as they have been down there nearly every Friday for the past few weeks and that day it was no different. I saw Niall drive into the private entrance around 3pm and Louis followed soon after but I didn’t get to actually see them.

X Factor presenter since 2007, Dermot O’Leary turned up on his green motorbike full of conversation and excited about his interview later that night on The Late Late Show in Ireland. He was delighted I was from Ireland but said I was crazy for flying over just to meet everyone. Dermot, I flew over just to meet you darling. 😛

Dermot and me. Image belongs to me.

Time at Fountain Studios seems to go by so slowly. From 2pm until 6pm felt like 12 hours. I do not know how some girls do this every day, week or every year! I was wrecked after just 10 hours of standing there. But the best thing about the fangirl experience is the friends you make. When I arrived at the studios, I spoke with the few girls who were already there and we bonded very quickly over Stereo Kicks. Later that night, once we had found each other on Twitter, we discovered we had mutual friends in the fangirl world and it was a surprise we didn’t know each other before! Now it’s like we’ve known each other for years. Anyway, at around 6:15pm, the baby of Stereo Kicks, Charlie, left the studios first as he has a curfew! I did feel a bit strange asking a 14 year old for a selfie but he is so cute. By the way, since when do 14 year olds look SO much older. He could easily  pass for 17, although that could be the cougar in me trying to make myself feel better about my encounter with him.

Charlie from Stereo Kicks and me. Image belongs to me.

3 out of the 4 members of Only The Young came out next. Since their first audition, I’ve had a little soft spot for Charlie and kind of only paid him attention. BUT when Mikey came out to meet everyone, he took my breathe away. Literally. I couldn’t formulate a sentence when he spoke to me. He was incredibly nice to me. He told us all not to get too cold, he could see me shivering (it was 2 degrees, I was expecting snow at any point!). I had told him I’d been there since 12 and I flew from Ireland and he loved that. He started taking the piss out of my accent and thanked me for making the effort to fly over to see them and support them. Genuine sweetheart ❤ Parisa and Betsy were also there, but they didn’t want to take selfies with me because they had just got there tan done for the show on Saturday and said they looked horrible – if they think they looked horrible, my god I’d hate to know what they thought of me. The looked so flawlessly beautiful, especially Betsy. I eventually convinced Parisa to take a picture with me but she covers half her face! Betsy spoke to me for a while though to make up for no picture and she said she loved my lipstick. I got shy then because she has an incredible beauty and fashion blog so I was thrilled with her comment.

Mikey and Me. Image belongs to me.

Parisa and me. Image belongs to me.

Andrea was next to come out and he is such an adorable person. He is exactly how you’d expect him to be. Shy but so humble. He did struggle to understand my accent though..

Andrea and me. Image belongs to me.

Tom, Reece and Casey from Stereo Kicks were next to come out but were quickly called back by the security the other side of the studios. I was so upset!

I continued to wait outside the studios after all the contestants had left because Niall and Louis had yet to leave. The girls who I became friends with told me that they would stop for photos, as they have done the past few weeks. Once again, security inside the studios wouldn’t allow the boys to stop for photos but Louis stopped his car beside us to explain that the ‘security are being mean and wouldn’t let us stop! Sorry guys!’ If I had been thinking, I could of easily turned around and posed for a selfie as I was standing next to the car. But no, Sarah Jane  wasn’t thinking, like always in these situations!!!!

So at 10:30pm, my mum and I wandered to McDonald’s to try warm up and day one at X Factor was over.

I decided not to go to the studios until after the show on Saturday night, as I knew there was no way I would meet anyone before the show. As soon as Stereo Kicks finished performing, I ran down to the studios and even got to hear Andrea live as the doors were open (his voice is breathtaking!).

Barclay from Stereo Kicks was the first to come out and  I was the only one there! He was quite shy and very humble. He is a beautiful human being and my mum is still surprised as to how I managed to have a conversation with him without melting. His aftershave was one of the nicest things I’ve ever smelt and I would not mind smelling that every day.

Barclay and me. Image belongs to me.

Betsy remembered me and stopped for a selfie this time and complemented my make-up and clothes once again. She is incredibly beautiful, when she handed back my phone and I looked at the selfies, I questioned why I even bothered because I look horrible beside someone so beautiful and she gave out to me for saying something so stupid. I have to say Only The Young are so good with their fans, they actually take interest in the fans and communicate with them at every possible chance. Other bands should be taking notes from OTY!

Betsy and me. Image belongs to me.

Charlie was next out (he came out earlier but went to McDonalds with his Dad!) and he ran over to me! He was full of conversation, clearly still excited from the show and even flirted with me. He was explaining to us how hard it is to get tickets for his family to come to the show. He then asked me where I was from because my accent ‘wasn’t English’ and once again when I said Ireland, he said ‘Woaaah that’s dedication’ and asked me how long it took to get there. My mum told him it was a birthday present and he asked when my birthday was and I told him and he reminded me that it was the same day as Tom’s from Stereo Kicks. I asked him to follow me on Twitter and while he was doing that he continued to ask me questions but the best reaction came when he asked how old I was. When I said 21, he stopped looking at his phone and looked at me in shock but still continued to casually flirt with me. He took my phone and took a good few selfies with me and below are my favourite two! Gosh. WHY MUST HE BE 17??? Dear god, why do you do this to me!! 😦

Charlie and me. Image belongs to me.

Charlie and me. Image belongs to me.

Reece popped out next. He is such a cutie. I told him I loved his new hair do but asked what they had done to Chris’s hair (they shaved it all off!!!) and he told me the producers or whoever said that ‘they needed someone in the band with that hairstyle and Chris was the one that stood up and took one for the team’. Reece told me to tell Chris that I loved it because he was really upset and insecure about it. For a 16 year old, Reece was such a gentleman and so down to earth. He went and got all the other members of Stereo Kicks for me ❤

Reece and me. Image belongs to me.

James. My interaction with him was very quick as they were being rushed by their minders/people. He is even more handsome in person and I don’t know how it was possible. Just look at his face. It was like it was carved my angels. He has the voice of an angel too.

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TOM MANN NEXT! Sorry I got a bit excited there. I have loved and followed this guy since early 2013 when I stumbled across him on youtube. I have been dying to meet him and I even messaged him on Friday (he follows me on Twitter 😉  )  explaining that I was so upset that I didn’t get to meet him and he replied saying he was sorry and that he would try meet me on Saturday and HE DID!!! When he came over, all I could say was ‘Tom, I’m Sarah Jane from Ireland’ and he went ‘Yeeeeeah I know you, I’ve been messaging you, finally we meet!’ I wished him a Happy 21st Birthday and told him it was my birthday the same day and he wished me a happy birthday and asked how old I was and when I replied with 21, he was surprised and said ‘that’s crazy!’. He wanted to stay longer to chat but he was dragged away. Look at how beautiful he is and look how happy I am, my eyes are all sparkly from happiness.

Tom and me ❤  Image belongs to me.

Chris was the best out of everyone (apart from Tom, no one beats Tom!) . The only thing I could say was that I was Irish and sure Jaysus he was only delighted. He was so happy that he couldn’t even take a proper selfie with me. Look at it. HE HAD ONE JOB! But bless him, he just wanted to talk to me. He kept thanking me for flying over and all the support. I told him I loved his hair and his face lit up and my heart melted. He was so happy, I just wanted to hug him. Everyone was getting jealous at how long every member of Stereo Kicks were spending with me but he told them to leave me alone because ‘she’s Irish guys!!’

Chris and me. Image belongs to me.

Lauren was next. She is so small and gorgeous. I wasn’t expecting her to be as nice as she was to be honest. She is so genuine and I just wanted to be best friends with her. I didn’t get to talk to her that much either.

Lauren and me. Image belongs to me.

Jake Sims only took two selfies with fans that night. I was one of them. GO ME!! I didn’t get to talk to him at all but I doubt the conversation would of been very long because he is so hot, I was probably drooling. I said he was a ride but I doubt he knew what that meant, unless he asked Chris 😛

Jake and me. Image belongs to me.

Paul was the last out of the studios that night. He is such a nice guy and had a laugh with the fans that were there.

Paul and me. Image belongs to me.

With that, day two at X Factor was over. I was happy. Very happy. Apart from the fact I didn’t get to meet all 8 boooyys (not a spelling mistake, it’s how they take the piss out of Louis!) from Stereo Kicks, Casey went out the front entrance 😦

Tania, one of the girls I became friends with, told me where everyone rehearses on Mondays. So I got up early and headed there. The first to arrive was Stevi and as much as I think he shouldn’t be in the competition, he is such a nice guy. He stood and spoke to everyone there for 10 minutes. My mum got a picture with him too and it’s hilarious they way he posed.

Stevi and me. Image belongs to me.

Stevi and Mam. Image belongs to me.

Lauren was next to arrive. She informed us that she was the last one going to arrived at the studios that day ( I COULD OF CRIED, WHY THAT MONDAY DID STEREO KICKS AND ONLY THE YOUNG NOT GO?!!!) She spent a long time talking to us and taking pictures with us. I can’t put into words how nice she is. She is so beautiful too. Her stomach is so flat and toned too. I look like a whale beside her.

Lauren and me. Image belongs to me.

The best thing about that Monday at the studios had to be the fact I got papped with Lauren. It appeared on the DailyMail online. Typical me on my phone :P.

I’m famous now lads!

I actually feel sorry for celebrities when paps are concerned. There was 5 paps there that day and they took about 500 photos of her in about 15 minutes. It was 10am in the morning, on a normal Monday at 10am, I’m still in bed not looking one bit photogenic.

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After that, I headed back to the airport, ecstatic with the wonderful weekend I had meeting my favourite people. It was back to the assignment that was due at 10am the next day for me that evening while all the X Factor contestants got to go to The Hunger Games Movie Premiere. I can not wait till I can do that instead of assignments.

 

 

Those Nick Jonas photos…

Just a little over two weeks, Nick Jonas got females, young and old, hot under the collar with these photos from his photoshoot with Flaunt Magazine.

Nick posed for the October’s Issue of the magazine and even recreated Mark Wahlberg’s well loved Calvin Klein’s advertisement back in 1992, where he famously grabbed his crotch and 22 year old Nick Jonas dropped his pants and done exactly that to shed his Disney star image.

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Nick Jonas’ PR team knew exactly what they were doing signing Nick up to this shoot and spreading these photos over the internet. Nick is currently releasing new music and has a new album coming out soon in the US and early next year in Europe. What a way to get your name back into the media!

Nick ditched the ‘innocent’ Disney star look and buffed up for the return to the music scene. Nick’s new album is set for release in November (unknown when it will be released over here!) which apparently has a much more mature sound. So it only makes sense that he strips off to catch people’s attention right? 😛

In the interview with Flaunt Magazine, Nick said : “I really try to be aware of the purpose of each song. There are songs on my record that I want people to have sex to, and songs people can listen to when they’re pissed off,”. Well I’m sure Nick is going to get a lot more offers to have sex to his new tunes after everyone has seen these photos! 😉

‘Chains‘ is one of his new tunes and even the title of the song is very sexual. I’m totally loving his new sound! Check out the video.

‘Jealous’ is the first single off his new album.

These photos didn’t go down very well with everyone though. It’s been over a year since fellow Disney star, Miley Cyrus, launched her new image to the world and that didn’t go down as smooth sailing as Nick’s did. Many celebrity sites and magazines called her a ‘whore’ and said how her new image was extremely inappropriate for being known as Hannah Montana.

It’s quite sad that it’s one rule for her and one rule for Nick. It’s about time equality happened! I happen to love how they both aren’t afraid to change their image. But that’s another argument for another day!

For now, enjoy these BEAUTIFUL pictures of the ever so sexy Nick Jonas and his new sexual music! 😉

2014 MTV VMA’s – All you need to know right here!

On Sunday 24th of August, MTV’s annual Video Music Awards took place in The Forum in California. The VMAs always has talking points for days and sometimes weeks after it (who can forget Miley Cyrus’ performance last year?!) and this year is no different. Well, on a much tamer scale.

Performances

Opening this year’s show was a medley, kicked off by Ariana Grande belting out her new song ‘Break Free‘ in a silver leotard, similar to the Glittering Gold one Beyonce wore during her I Am… Sasha Fierce tour in 2009.

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Nicki Minaj took the stage next with a jungle themed performance of her new single ‘Anaconda‘ but had no snakes (unlike Britney back in 2001, but it was later said they had to scrap the snake idea due to an incident that happened in rehearsals with one of Nicki’s dancers and the snake!!) Nicki and her dancers did however showed Miley Cyrus how to really twerk!!

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To finish the opening medley, Jessie J joined Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj onstage for the first ever performance of their joint single ‘Bang Bang’. While Jessie J and Ariana were smashing their incredible vocals, poor Nicki had a wardrobe malfunction!! The rapper walked on to stage while holding her black dress closed over her chest. and boy was she holding on for dear life! Nicki later said in a backstage interview what happened, which was that she ran out of time backstage when changing and failed to get the dress zipped up.

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Taylor Swift performed her new single ‘Shake It Off‘ while wearing a sparkling silver bralet and shorts. Viewers got excited when she was standing on top of a massive “1989” sign and appeared as if she was about to jump off it and into her crowd of dancers awaiting arms, but she squirmed away and said “I don’t care if it’s the VMAs, I’m not jumping off there,” she said, disappearing while going down stairs saying  “All kinds of people getting bit by snakes, it’s dangerous!”, in reference to Nicki Minaj’s dancer!

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Sam Smith made his American awards show debut with a flawless performance of his breakout ballad, ‘Stay With Me‘ simply singing into a microphone in the spotlight and just accompanied by a piano.

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Usher launched his new single ‘She Came To Give It To You‘ which features Nicki Minaj. When Nicki joined Usher on stage, he repeatedly touched her bum with his shoulder while playing the electric guitar and then spanked her before she left the stage.

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Next up was my boys, 5 Seconds of Summer! They sang their pop-rock ballad ‘Amnesia‘. They were literally incredible and have received nothing but compliments about their performance. Proud of you guys ❤

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Iggy Azalea and Rita Ora showed their fierce sides when they teamed up to perform ‘Black Widow‘. They made sure the viewers knew that spiders were the main theme of the performance with a lit-up spider web behind them and the  dancers dressed in spider inspired outfits. Rita went one step further and had diamond shaped siders on her nails (I’M SHAKING AT EVEN THE THOUGHT – I HATE SPIDERS (but LOVE this song)!

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Outside the venue, Maroon 5 performed their new hit single ‘Maps‘ to a large crowd of fans!

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One of the main talking points of the night was Miley Cyrus’ guest, homeless man Jesse Helt. Miley got Jesse to go on stage and accept her award for Video Of The Year on her behalf and spoke about homeless youths and to highlight the issue. Miley looked on while crying. This shows that Miley should get more credit where credit is due. She’s not a bad person at all. She could of went up there and gave a meaningless few thanks to fans and her music label but she selflessly used that time to highlight an issue prominent in the USA.

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And last, but certainly not least, was the performance of the night by the one and only QUEEN BEYONCE! While wearing a bejeweled bodysuit, Bey literally performed a snippet of her Mrs. Carter Tour! She sang 12 songs mashed together from her self titled album, Beyonce, which included Drunk In Love, Partition and the remix version of Flawless. After her very sexual performances, hubby Jay-Z and daughter Blue Ivy stepped up onto the stage with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award to present it to Beyonce. Bring Beyonce to tears, Blue Ivy cheered ‘Go Mommy’ and the Jay presented her the award stating that she is ‘the greatest living entertainer’. Putting a stop to all those spilt and divorce rumours, they put on a united family front for the world to see!

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My Best Dressed Females

Number 1 best dressed female is Beyonce! No surprises there! She looked incredible gracing the red carpet in a black lace fishtail dress. Because it’s Queen Bey, her second outfit also gets a mention. After her show stopping performance, she changed into a dark pink/burgundy dress by Lebanese designer, Zuhair Murad.

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My number 2 best dressed girl goes to my idol, Demi Lovato! WOW. She simply looks perfect. Demi has definitely proven she’s body confident at last in her sexy, floor length red gown. She donned a new shorter hair do with a simple smokey eye and strong, sexy red lipstick.

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My Number 3 goes to the Kardashian trio. 18 year old Kendall and 16 year old Kylie both wore black. Model Kendall chose a jumpsuit with a sheer mesh top while Kylie decided to wear a silk dress with a very-high-thigh slit. Older sister (yet the smallest sister!) wore no other than her favourite, Balmain, with her cleavage on clear display!

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My Worst Dressed Females

Amber Rose. WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?! I can’t even begin to explain it. How was she let leave her house? The ‘dress’ is by Rose McGowen, just incase anyone wants to get themselves a replica (doubt it!)

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Katy Perry, girl, you can do so much better, in both men and in fashion. Ditch Riff Raff and ditch the demin. Britney and Justin did this look over 13 years ago, it didn’t work then and it doesn’t work now.

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Taylor Swift, it breaks my heart to put you in the worst dressed section but for a girl who 90% of the time dresses ‘Oh so right‘ at award shows, you got it ‘Oh so wrong‘ this time! This outfit just does nothing for you. That’s it. I can not find anymore words to say about it. Just go back to your long sparkly gowns that everyone adores!

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My Best Dressed Males

Nick Jonas is my number 1 best dressed male. Just look at him. He is looking FINE! Nick looked incredibly dapper in a navy check print jacket and waist coat by Vivienne Westwood.

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My number two best dressed male is Sam Smith, who rocked the red carpet in a stunning three piece black suit.

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My number 3 best dressed are 5 Seconds of Summer. The foursome donned their true punk rock style. They looked hot. So hot. Incredibly hot. Have I mentioned they look hot? Because the look SO HOT!! I think you get my idea. Also, Ashton’s blazer costs a whopping $1250. WHAT? This is the band that get their stylists to put holes in their t-shirts to make them look cooler. I hope they took that jacket and put it somewhere safe away from scissors.

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Winners List

Video Of The Year – Miley Cyrus – ‘Wrecking Ball’

Best Male Video – Ed Sheeran – ‘Sing’ (ft. Pharrell Williams)

Best Female Video – Katy Perry – ‘Dark Horse’ (ft. Juicy J)

Artist To Watch – Fifth Harmony – ‘Miss Movin’ On’

Best Pop Video – Ariana Grande – ‘Problem’ (ft. Iggy Azalea)

Best Rock Video – Lorde – ‘Royals’

Best Hip-Hop Video – Drake – ‘Hold On, We’re Going Home’ (ft. Majid Jordan)

MTV Clubland Award – Zedd – ‘Stay the Night’ (ft. Hayley Williams)

Best Collaboration – Beyonce – ‘Drunk in Love’ (ft. Jay-Z)

Best Choreography – Sia – ‘Chandelier’ (Choreographer: Ryan Heffington)

Best Cinematography – Beyonce – ‘Pretty Hurts’ (Directors of Photography: Darren Lew and Jackson Hurt)

Best Video With A Social Message – Beyonce – ‘Pretty Hurts’

Best Lyric Video – 5 Seconds of Summer – ‘Don’t Stop’

Best Editing – Eminem – ‘Rap God’ (Editor: Ken Mowe)

Best Direction – DJ Snake and Lil Jon – ‘Turn Down for What’ (Directors:DANIELS)

Best Art Direction – Arcade Fire – ‘Reflektor’ (Art Director: Anastasia Masaro)

Best Visual Effects – OK Go – ‘The Writing’s on the Wall’ (Visual Effects: 1stAveMachine)

Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award – Beyonce

And that’s it, all the crazy antics are over for another year! Well.. maybe just until the EMAs in November!

 

In Crazy, Stupid, Love with comeback queen Cheryl!

Summer 2014 belongs to one female star and that’s Cheryl Cole, wait, I mean Fernandez-Versini!

It all started back in Spring when Mr. Simon Cowell somehow manage to get Cheryl back on the judges panel for X Factor 2014 and with that, her name was back in the headlines and she was back under the spotlight!

On May 8th, she announced was going to be appearing at Capital FM’s Summertime Ball at Wembley Arena, one of the biggest concerts in the UK! This was her first musical event in over two years so she had a lot of pressure on her already and with having no new music at the time, her fans and the media began to wonder if this was a good idea. But Chezza always knows what she’s doing! On May 29th, she declared she had new music on the way and that Crazy Stupid Love was her new single, saying ‘Ready or not I’m coming for you !!! #CSL!’

On June 8th, she performed Crazy Stupid Love on Britain’s Got Talent and like always, she slayed her performance!

Image from Cheryl’s Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/CherylOfficial?ref=ts&fref=ts

On June 9th, Cheryl released her video for Crazy Stupid Love and wow, she CAN dance! If I needed anymore reason to be jealous of Cheryl, that’s it, I wish I could look as good as her when she dances! (But because I have watched the video like 1 million times, I almost know every move off by heart.. Whatcha think Cheryl, dance battle next time you’re in Dublin? 😉 )

Cheryl never fails to dazzle the crowds at Cannes Film Festival and this year was no different! She wore a Monique Lhuillier dress on the red carpet, attending Channing Tatum’s new movie, Foxcatcher. While attending the De Grisogono dinner party, she wore a gothic-glamourous plunging black gown, ( I have no idea who it is made by, I can’t find out anywhere 😦 )

Image from http://www.reveal.co.uk

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Cheryl, always being one to keep private about her life, for sure surprised the world when she posted a picture of two new rings on her wedding finger on Instagram with a statement saying ‘I usually do not discuss my personal life but to stop the speculation I want to share my happy news… Jean-Bernard and I married on 7/7/14. We are very happy and excited to move forward with our lives together..’. Well, I’m not surprised the woman is happy! Firstly, Jean- Bernard is VERY easy on the eye and secondly, that ring is gorgeous!

Image from Cheryl’s Instragram

Although, she was highly criticized by the media and close friends because the couple have only been together for three months. Former band mate and best friend, Nicola Roberts, was one of those people to pass judgement but had a change of heart and posted the following to the Versinis on Twitter: “You can be in a relationship for two years and feel nothing; you can be in a relationship for two months and feel everything. Time is not a measure of quality; of infatuation, or of love.”

Cheryl and Jean Bernard tied the knot in the elegant Cottons House resort in Mustique with just four people present, including her mother Joan and her PA Lily England.

The couple held a party in London to celebrate their marriage with friends and family a week later and the pair both wore black, unusual for a wedding party but damn, they look hot! Cheryl beamed from ear to ear while wearing a silk and velvet strapless gown with sheer pleated French chiffon skirt by British designers Ralph & Russo. They requested that all invited guests wore black and white! Among the guests were Marvin and Rochelle Humes and Kimberley Walsh and her partner Justin Scott.

It must be love because Cheryl has dropped the ‘Cole’ and changed her surname to that of her new hubby and have vowed she will get rid of or cover up her ‘Mrs C’ tattoo on her neck! Also, Cheryl has been reported to be learning French to be able to speak Jean Bernard’s native language, the language of love (sighhhhhhhhhhhhh what I’d do to be in love…)

 

Image from http://www.dailymail.co.uk

Image from http://www.dailymail.co.uk

 

On June 23rd, Cheryl announced she has a perfume ‘coming soon’ called Storm Flower. Check out the video for it! (I will be buying this perfume, I do expect to smell exactly like Cheryl so you have one job team Cheryl.. Impress me!)

 

 

Also in June, Cheryl appeared in Elle Magazine and my god did she look incredible! This has been one of my favourite covers of Elle Magazine in a very long time!

Image from Cheryl’s Facebook

With X Factor starting in just two weeks, Cheryl is going to be on our screens EVERY WEEK again and as you can tell I’m quite excited! During the week, she received word that she has the Girls category this year (her favourite.. Mmm, wonder if Simon had anything to do with that!) From the auditions alone, she has be looking fabulous and beating Mel B every time in the fashion stakes! I’m excited to see the fashion wars every week.

Image from http://www.mirror.co.uk

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She’s ‘only going up’ (get it? Lyric promotion right there!), 2014 will more than likely be her year! And she deserves it!

So yeah.. I’m in Crazy Stupid Love with Cheryl Fernandez-Versini.

17 reasons why you should watch the Commonwealth Games ladies!

So for all you people (especially ladies) who don’t know, The Commonwealth Games are currently on in Glasgow, Scotland and my god you’ve been missing out! The Commonwealth Games is an international, multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations (basically, it’s the mini Olympics held every four years, 2 year after the Olympics!)

This blog post is mainly aimed at females and 17 reasons why you SHOULD be watching the games, and it’s not just for the sports! That’s right, I’m on about the beautiful men who are competing in many of the sports held at the Commonwealth Games! If you know me personally, you would know I love sport so I have no problem watching endless hours of the various sports. But I am also a girl and god I love when there is a hottie to watch! So here is my list of the 17 hottest guys in my eyes at the games 😉

17- Michael Conlon

 

Image from Michael’s Twitter

Michael Conlon is 22 years old and is an Irish boxer from Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. Okay, I know you are thinking he doesn’t quite look like the rest of the guys further down the list but he’s cute, got charm and there is something about him that just makes you want to watch him! Also, He’s Irish so of course he makes my list!

You can watch Michael box on Wednesday the 30th of July.

16- Matthew Mitcham

Image from wikipedia.

Matthew Mitcham is 26 years old and is an Australian diver from Sydney.  Matthew originally competed as a trampoline gymnast but he was spotted by Wang Tong Xiang, who is a coach at the Australian Institute of Sport Diving (thank god he took up diving!). In his diving career, he has dived from all heights of the board from both springboard and platform, including 1m,3m, 5m, 7m, and 10m. In 2008, he came out and said he was gay, but that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy watching him 😉

You can watch Matthew dive on Saturday the 2nd of August from 10am.

15- David Boudia

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David Boudia is 25 years old and is an American diver from Texas. He competes on the 10m platform in individual and synchro. His wife (yes, wife!) is a lucky lady!

You can watch David  in the Synchronised 10m Platform diving on Friday the 1st of August from 6pm. You can also see him dive individually on Saturday the 2nd of August from 10am.

14- James  Magnussen 

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James Magnussen is 23 years old and is an Australian swimmer from New South Wales. He is the current 100 metre freestyle world champion, and holds the 4th fastest swim in history in the 100-metre freestyle with a time of 47.10 seconds. I only discovered him this week while watching the swimming, I swear I wasn’t drooling when he got out of the pool.

I think his swimming is over but I’m not too sure. Be sure to check out the men’s swimming if it’s still on tv just incase he pops up!

13- Harry Owen

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Harry Owen is 20 years old and is a Welsh Gymnast.  He competes in the team event for Wales and competes in all the individual events, including Floor, Pommel Horse, Rings, Vault, Parallel Bars and Horizontal Bar.

You can watch Harry compete in the second part of the Team event on Tuesday 29th of July from 11am. You can see him compete individually on Thursday the 31st of July from 3pm.

12- Jack Rickards

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Jack Rickards is 20 years old and is an Australian Gymnast.  He competes in the team event for Australia and competes in all the individual events, including Floor, Pommel Horse, Rings, Vault, Parallel Bars and Horizontal Bar.

You can watch Jack compete in the second part of the Team event on Tuesday 29th of July from 11am. You can see him compete individually on Thursday the 31st of July from 3pm.

11- James Connor

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James Connor is 19 years old and is an Australian diver from Victoria. He competes on the 10m platform. Just look at him, he is beautiful. Baby-faced maybe, but still, beautiful! He’s got gorgeous and an adorable smile! (I’m not being a cougar… Swear!)

You can watch James dive individually on Saturday the 2nd of August from 10am.

10- Kristian Thomas

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Kristian Thomas is 25 years old and is a British Gymnast from Wolverhampton. He is a longstanding member of both the England and Great Britain men’s team. He competes in the team even for England and individually competes in the Horizontal bar.

You can watch Kristian compete in the second part of the Team event on Tuesday 29th of July from 11am. You can see him compete individually on Thursday the 31st of July from 3pm.

9- Kristoffer Done

Heartbreakingly, I can’t find a picture of this beautiful man on the internet 😦 But trust me, he is very easy on the eye! So instead of leaving this place blank, I picked someone else to show off! Luke Carson!

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Luke Carson is 24 years old and isan Northern Ireland Gymnast from Belfast. He competes in the team event for Northern Ireland and individually competes in the Men’s All Round, Pommel Horse and Parallel Bars.

You can watch Luke compete in the second part of the Team event on Tuesday 29th of July from 11am. You can see him compete individually on Thursday the 31st of July from 3pm.

8- Chad Le Clos

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Chad Le Clos is 22 years old and is a South African swimmer. He swims in the butterfly, freestyle and medley races. He is best known for that memorable victory over Michael Phelps in the London 2012 Olympics, when he came out of no where and beat the best swimmer in the world by 0.05 seconds and set a new record.

Chad’s final two events are on Tuesday 29th of July, which are the 200m Individual Medley Final at 7:45pm and 4×100 Medley Relay Final at 9:10pm

7- Nile Wilson

Image from Nile WIlson’s Twitter.

Nile Wilson is 18 years old and is a British Gymnast. He competes in the team event for England and also competes individually in all the individual events, including Floor, Pommel Horse, Rings, Vault, Parallel Bars and Horizontal Bar.

You can watch Nile compete in the second part of the Team event on Tuesday 29th of July from 11am. You can see him compete individually on Thursday the 31st of July from 3pm.

6- Sam Oldham

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Sam Oldham is 21 years old and is a British Gymnast. He competes in the team event for England and individually in the Horizontal Bar.

You can watch Sam compete in the second part of the Team event on Tuesday 29th of July from 11am.

Unfortunately today (Tuesday the 29th of July), Sam landed awkwardly on his left ankle after executing an incredible performance while competing in the Vault for the Team event and had to withdraw from the team. It is taught that he has badly fractured his ankle and that would mean that his Commonwealth Games are over.

5- Jack Laugher

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Jack Laugher (His surname is actually pronounced ‘Law’!) is 19 years old and is a British diver from North Yorkshire. He usually dives of the 3m Springboard and also does 3m Springboard synchro with Chris Mears.

Jack will be competing in the Men’s 3m Springboard on the 31st of July. He will also be competing in the Men’s 3m Synchronised Springboard on Friday the 1st of August.

4- Chris Mears

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Chris Mears is 21 years old and is a British diver from Berkshire. He also is a DJ in his spare time. He dives on the 3m springboard individually and in the synchro with Jack Laugher.

Chris will be competing in the Men’s 3m Springboard on the 31st of July. He will also be competing in the Men’s 3m Synchronised Springboard on Friday the 1st of August.

3- Max Whitlock

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Max Whitlock is 21 years old and is a British Gymnast from Hertfordshire. He competes in the team event, alongside Louis Smith, Kristian Thomas, Sam Oldham and Nile Wilson, and competes in the Pommel Horse individually and sometimes the floor exercise and horizontal bar!

You can watch Max compete in the second part of the Team event on Tuesday 29th of July from 11am. You can see him compete individually on Thursday the 31st of July from 3pm.

2- Louis Smith

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Louis Smith is 25 years old and is a British Gymnast from Peterborough. He competes in the team event and also competes individually in the Pommel Horse event. Louis took some time out from gymnastics after he won Sliver at the London 2012 Olympics and in September 2012, he took part in Strictly Come Dancing and ending up winning the show! He certainly has all the right moves 😉

You can watch Louis compete in the second part of the Team event on Tuesday 29th of July from 11am. You can see him compete individually on Thursday the 31st of July from 3pm.

1- Tom Daley

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Image belongs to John Walton/PA Wire

It was always obvious that Tom was going to be my number one. Everyone knows how much I adore this chap since I was like 14! Incase you are reading this and have no idea who Tom is (I am trying not to judge you but you must be living under rocks!!!) Tom Daley is 20 years old and is a British diver from Plymouth. He is one of the most well known divers in the world. He dives from the 10m platform individually and also does 10m platform synchro.  On 2 December 2013, Daley released a Youtube video announcing that he had been in a relationship with a man since early that year. He said in the video: “I still fancy girls, but at the moment I’ve never been happier”. As long as Tom is happy, I’m happy! I will support him no matter what! Plus, I still fancy him, even if he’s gay!

You can watch Tom in the Synchronised 10m Platform diving on Friday the 1st of August from 6pm. You can also see him dive individually on Saturday the 2nd of August from 10am.

Also, I noticed the other day while watching the swimming that 70% of the swimmers are beautiful and almost every gymnastic is gorgeous, maybe it’s just the muscles distracting me but you check them out and let me know!

Now, I hope you all regret not paying attention to the London 2012 Olympics now!! Well at least you can still catch some of these hotties on your tv screens via BBC’s coverage of the games over the next few days! Enjoy (There is no need to thank me!)

I’m off to pack my bag to fly over to Glasgow to see some of these gorgeous people (I actually am going, I’m not joking!)

‘Mr.Grey will see you now’

On Thursday the 24th of July at 1pm, the majority of the female population got very excited and it’s all down to the dreamy Mr.Grey.

The official trailer for the first movie belonging to the 50 Shades of Grey Trilogy has been released and my god, it does NOT disappoint! In fact, I wish the movie was out tomorrow so I could drool all over Mr.Grey.

Christian Grey is played by Irish hunk Jamie Dornan and although there have been many complaints that he doesn’t quite live up to how Christian is described in the book, he still makes me hot under the collar. If you need more convincing as to why I think he is perfect for the role, Please take time out to check out two of the images below. You’ll thank me later 😉

Jamie Dornan modelling for Calvin Klein.
Image is from Metro.co.uk

Jamie Dornan set female hearts racing 3 weeks ago when he posted this image on his Instagram.
Image taken from GQ Magazine.

I have to admit, I found myself replaying the steamy elevator make-out session in the trailer a few times throughout the past few days (Okay maybe I have watched it like 50 times but what girl hasn’t?)

If the trailer is this good and has us all excited, I can just imagine that the movie is going to be incredible (hopefully, I hate when the movie doesn’t live it up to the book!) If Christian’s dirty talk and actions in the book made you turn 50 Shades of Red, well thank god the cinema is a dark place then eh? 😛

Beyonce has stripped back her song Crazy In Love and has given it a much more sexual tone to suit the movie, as it is the feature song for the film.

The day that every woman who has read this book has been dreaming of is almost here, we just have to a little over 200 days and ‘Mr.Grey will see you now’

But don’t worry ladies, if you follow Jamie Dornan on Instagram, I’m sure he will tease us will pictures and clips up until the movie is released (JamieDornan1, no need to thank me 😛 ).

Fifth Harmony and ‘Bo$$’.

On July 8th, Fifth Harmony dropped their video for their latest single Bo$$ and they show off their FIERCE side!

If you haven’t heard of them yet, don’t panic! Fifth Harmony aren’t well known over this side of the world due to their fame arising on the US version of X Factor in 2012 (and unless you are one of us reality TV obsessed people, you wouldn’t have seen it!)

Fifth Harmony were formed on the 2nd Session of The X Factor US (the same way Simon created One Direction!). The young girl band consists of members Ally Brooke Hernandez (21), Normani Hamilton (18), Dinah Jane Hansen (17), Camila Cabello (17) , and Lauren Jauregui (18). After finishing third place (isn’t it funny how the best act in XF that year came 3rd? Like One Direction in the UK version 2 years previous?! It seems like coming 3rd is much better in that competition, unless you are Little Mix!) they signed a joint record deal with Simon Cowell’s Syco Music and L.A. Reid’s Epic Records.

While working on their original stuff, the girls uploaded covers onto Youtube, including Ariana Grande’s Honeymoon Avenue, Ed Sheeran’s Lego House  and Taylor Swift’s Red. Also, In 2013, the girls featured in Boyce Avenue’s’ Cover Collaborations V2′ EP, singing covers of Mirrors and When I Was Your Man. In October 2013, the band released their debut Ep, Better Together, which included the lead single Miss Movin’ On and Who Are You. Their debut album is set to be released later in 2014.

In their latest single Bo$$ video, the girls ditch the sweet girly outfits and show off their inner sassy diva side! You can tell Beyonce is one of the girls inspirations as the video is very much like something Bey would produce!

With the upbeat rhythm and catchy lyrics, it’s hard to ignore this song. I think this is the year the Fifth Harmony become a global sucess and it will all be down to their anthem Bo$$!

Check it out and see for yourself 🙂

 

Cody Simpson brings his Acoustic Sessions Tour to Dublin!

Australian teen heartthrob Cody Simpson rocked up to the Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin on the 4th of July with his Acoustic Sessions Tour.

Like many other big named artists and bands currently on the music scene, Cody started out on Youtube back in 2009 when, at the age of just 12, he posted videos of himself singing. He was discovered by Shawn Campbell soon after and was signed to Atlantic Records. Baby faced cutie Cody moved to LA and his career took off with his first single in 2010 called iYiYi which features American Rapper Flo Rida. Over the last few years, Cody has experimented with his style of music and last year, he finally found what suits him best, which would be mellow pop with acoustic vibes. His style is highly influenced by his passion for surfing. In 2013, Cody toured the UK and Ireland to his own sell out crowds while also supporting Justin Bieber on his Believe Tour. The now not so baby faced cutie (yeah puberty has hit him VERY well, he is such a hottie now 😛 ) is causing a stir in the music industry with his talent.

I was extremely lucky to get tickets to see his Acoustic show and blessed to be front row (Thanks to my best friends Sophie and Jade for hooking me up 😉 )

Before the show, I managed to meet Justin Stirling, a close friend of Cody’s who is also part of his crew. Might I just add that he is extremely gorgeous too!

Justin and myself before the show (My photo)

Cody asked American singer Jackson Harris to support him on the tour. I know you haven’t heard of him, but trust me, you want to know who he is! Jackson’s career also started out on Youtube when he posted a video of his cover of Jay-Z’s Empire State of Mind 4 years ago. He released his debut EP, “Sharks and Vampires” in February this year. I only heard of him recently and he totally wants me to fall in love with him as he done a cover of my all time favourites, 5 Seconds of Summer’s She Looks So Perfect – Check it out! 

Jackson certainly won over the crowd on the night, especially me. When he was singing his song Right Kind of Wrong, he spotted me singing along and of course I got all shy and embarrassed, which made him come over to right in front of me, he knelt down, held eye contact with me and smiled while sang to me  (It’s official, we are getting married!) That is every fangirl’s dream right there! God I am so lucky! If you check out this video, you’ll see a snippet of Jackson singing to me at 1:20 😉

Oops, got carried away there, back to the gig. Jackson sang a selection of his own songs and an incredible cover of One Direction’s Little Things. I highly advise you check out his stuff on iTunes. This guy is going places!

The beautiful Jackson Harris (My Photo)

Cody rocked the stage soon after in his ripped jeans, black tee and bandana and the hundreds of girls screamed so loud, I think my hearing got worse! This tour is completely different to any of Cody’s previous tours, it’s stripped back completely. It’s just Cody, his guitar, and two members of his backing band (guitarist and drummer).

Cody Simpson (My Photo)

Cody Simpson (My Photo)

Cody Simpson (My Photo)

Cody Simpson (My Photo)

Cody Simpson (My Photo)

Cody Simpson (My Photo)

Cody sang 14 songs, including his hits Got Me Good, Wish You Were Here, Pretty Brown Eyes and Surfboard. Cody also does a few covers on the tour and has different ones nearly every night. In Dublin, he done a Justin Timberlake and Stevie Wonder Medley, as well as covering Elvis Presley’s Hound Dog. Now although it was an acoustic show, Cody couldn’t help himself from showing off a few moves to some of his more upbeat songs 😉 The 17 year old sent pulses racing with his sexy dance moves. Cody knows his fans (especially the older ones, like myself) very well so when the crowd chanted Take It Off (I honestly didn’t start it, I wish I did), he laughed and replied saying ‘I’m Cody Simpson, not Magic Mike’ but proceeded to lift up his top to tease us! 😉 When Cody sang is song Not Just You, he got
down on his knees in front of me while singing (I know, I am extremley lucky).

Here are some of my videos from his concert below :

After a short 48 hours in Ireland, he has now moved on to finish his European tour. So same time and place next year Cody? Yeahhh! 😀