SWEET DREAM

ALESSIA CARA

SONGWRITERS: JON LEVINE; CAROLINE AILIN; JASON GREGORYEVIGAN; ALESSIA CARACCIOLO & SPENCER STEWART

COUNTRY: CANADA

ALBUM: IN THE MEANTIME

LABEL: DEF JAM RECORDINGS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2021

 

     Alessia Caracciolo(born July 11, 1996), known professionally as Alessia Cara (/əˈlɛsiəˈkɑːrə/), is a Canadian singer-songwriter. When she was only 13 years of age, she started posting covers of songs that she performs on the online platform YouTube to showcase her ability and eventually gained a big enough following.

        After uploading acoustic covers of songs such as "Love Yourself" and "Sweater Weather" online, she signed with EP Entertainment and Def Jam Recordings in 2014 and released her debut single the following year. "Here" peaked at number 19 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart and was a sleeper hit in the US, peaking at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

     Cara's debut studio album, Know-It-All(2015), peaked at number 8 on the Canadian Albums Chart and at number 9 on the Billboard 200. The album's third single, "Scars to Your Beautiful", peaked at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2016. In 2017, Cara collaborated with DJ and producer Zedd on the single "Stay", which is certified seven-times platinum in Canada, and featured on rapper Logic's song "1-800-273-8255". Cara has received nominations for four Grammy Awards, winning the Best New Artist in 2018. She was nominated for Song of the Year and Record of the Year at the 2019 Latin Grammys for her collaboration with Juanes on "Querer Mejor". Her second studio album, The Pains of Growing(2018), saw the moderate commercial success of the singles "Growing Pains" and "Trust My Lonely". The album won Juno Award for Album of the Year and Juno Award for Pop Album of the Year while she went on to win Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year. Her third album, In the Meantime(2021), was met with generally positive reviews from critics.

       In the Meantime is the third studio album by Canadian singer and songwriter Alessia Cara, released on September 24, 2021, by Def Jam Recordings. Cara collaborated with Jon Levine, Salaam Remi and Joel Little among several other producers on the project.

Three songs were released to promote the album: "Sweet Dream", "Shapeshifter", and "Best Days", with "Sweet Dream" charting at number 51 on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 chart while the latter two acted as promotional singles. In the Meantime follows Cara's EP This Summer(2019).

4:55, everybody else is snoring

My heavy eyes, I can never seem to close 'em

My running mind, just can't catch it when it's going

Is it late at night or is it early in the morning?

 

Only

So many sheep a girl can count

Patchouli candles burning out

I try to meditate it all away but, damn it, it's too quiet now

Daylight helps distract my head

Monsters hide under my bed

They bother me with all kinds of things

Like, "Where do I go when I'm dead?"

 

Is it too much to ask for a sweet dream?

Need a step back from my feelings

Life is not so bad when I'm sleeping

Is it too much to ask, too much to ask for a

Sweet dream

For a, sweet dream

 

6:58, sun's peaking through the curtains

I drift away, suddenly the wheels are turning

Songs are in my head, scary thoughts begin to worsen

Once I'm wide awake, it's too hard to reverse it

 

Chirping, birds are flying 'round my house

Patchouli candles burning out

I try to meditate it all away but, damn it, it's too quiet now

Daylight helps distract my head

Monsters hide under my bed

They bother me with all kinds of things

Like that one stupid thing I said

 

Is it too much to ask for a sweet dream?

Need a step back from my feelings

Life is not so bad when I'm sleeping

Is it too much to ask, too much to ask for a

Sweet dream

For a, sweet dream

For a, sweet dream

For a, sweet dream

 

Sandman, can you visit me?

All I want is a sweet dream

 

8:31, I'm slurring every word now

I pray this cold coffee helps me with the rebound

How does everybody I know know how to sleep sound?

When we're all a mess

I guess the only way out is a

 

Sweet dream (sweet dream, sweet dream)

Is a, sweet dream (ah-ah)

Sweet dream (oh, yeah)

Is a, sweet dream (yeah).

 I’M NOT A ROBOT

MARINA

SONGWRITER: MARINA LAMBRINI DIAMONDIS

COUNTRY: WELSH(PAÍS DE GALES)

ALBUM: THE FAMILY JEWELS

LABEL: ATLANTIC RECORDS

GENRE: INDIE

YEAR: 2010

 

      Marina Lambrini Diamandis(born 10 October 1985), better known by her stage name Marina is a Welsh singer-songwriter. She rose to fame after placing second in the BBC Sound of 2010 poll behind Ellie Goulding in the United Kingdom.

     Her debut album "The Family Jewels" was released in 2010, which contained five singles. The album reached number five upon release in the UK. Lead single "Mowgli's Road" was re-released in November 2009 whilst Marina was working on the album. Second single "Hollywood" peaked at number 12 in the UK Singles Chart. Third and fourth singles "I Am Not A Robot" and "Oh No!" became other top forty hits. Fifth and final single "Shampain" was released in October 2010.

    Marina released the single "Radioactive" in October 2011 as a lead single for her second album "Electra Heart", and it became her fourth top forty single. "Primadonna" was used as the lead single instead in April 2012 and achieved worldwide success. Marina released "Electra Heart" in the UK a week after the release of the song. It debuted at number one in the UK whilst "Primadonna" reached number eleven. "Power & Control" was released only in the UK as a second single.

        Marina's third studio album, 'FROOT' was released 13 March 2015 following the leak of the whole album in February of that year. Many critics named this the best album ever released in terms of lyrics, production and general aesthetic.

         On 16 July 2014, Marina published the bridge of the absolute tune, 'I'm Not Hungry Anymore', on Instagram, which many hoped would appear in FROOT repackage. Unfortunately not. However, in 2017 the whole song was leaked and revealed to be an absolute bop.

You've been acting awful tough lately

Smoking a lot of cigarettes lately

But inside, you're just a little baby

It's okay to say you've got a weak spot

You don't always have to be on top

Better to be hated

Than loved loved loved for what your not

 

You're vulnerable, you're vulnerable

You are not a robot

You're lovable, so lovable

But you're just troubled

 

Guess what I'm not a robot, a robot

Guess what I'm not a robot, a robot

 

You've been hanging with the unloved kids

Who you never really liked and you never trusted

But you are so magnetic, you pick up all the pins

Never committing to anything

You don't pick up the phone when it ring, ring, rings

Don't be so pathetic, just open up and sing

 

I'm vulnerable, I'm vulnerable

I am not a robot

You're lovable, so lovable

But you're just troubled

 

Guess what I'm not a robot, a robot

Guess what I'm not a robot, a robot

 

Can you teach me how to feel real

Can you turn my power on

Well, let the drum beat drop

 

Guess what I'm not a robot

Guess what I'm not a robot

 

Guess what I'm not a robot, a robot

Guess what I'm not a robot, a robot

Guess what I'm not a robot, a robot

Guess what I'm not a robot, a robot.

NOBODY’S HOME

AVRIL LAVIGNE

SONGWRITERS: AVRIL RAMONA LAVIGNE; BEM MOODY & DON GILMORE

COUNTRY: CANADA

ALBUM: UNDER MY SKIN

RECORD: ARISTA RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 2004

 

       Under My Skin is the second studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne. It was released on May 19, 2004, by Arista Records and RCA Records. Lavigne wrote most of the album with singer-songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk, who invited her to a Malibu in-house recording studio shared by Kreviazuk and her husband Raine Maida, where Lavigne recorded many of the songs. The album was produced by Maida, Don Gilmore, and Butch Walker. It is Lavigne's final album to be released on Arista, as she departed the label after its release.

        Under My Skin debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart and on the US Billboard 200. It sold three million copies in the United States, ranking the album number 149 on the Billboard 200 decade-end chart. Because of the album's darker, heavier, more aggressive vibe reminiscent of post-grunge and more melodic rockier songs, it received generally positive reception from critics at the point of considering it as one of the classic albums that defined pop punk music in the early 00's, and also one of the works that anticipated the emotional intensity and theatrical aesthetics of emo pop music in the mainstream. On March 18, 2013, Under My Skin was re-released as a double-disc set paired with her debut studio album, Let Go, which was released under Arista Records. To promote the album, Lavigne went on a promotional tour for malls in the United States and Canada. Furthermore, Lavigne embarked on a concert tour, entitled the Bonez Tour, starting on September 26, 2004, and ending one year later on September 26, 2005. The concert at the Budokan Stadium in Japan was filmed and released on a DVD only available in Japan, entitled Bonez Tour 2005: Live at Budokan. Under My Skin had sold 10 million copies worldwide and is the fifth best selling album of the 21st century by a Canadian artist.

       Critics described Under My Skin as post-grunge, alternative rock, and nu metal containing some gothic rock, grunge, folk rock, and hard rock influences.

I couldn't tell you

Why she felt that way

She felt it everyday

And I couldn't help her

I just watched her make

The same mistakes again

 

What's wrong, what's wrong now?

Too many, too many problems

Don't know where she belongs

Where she belongs

 

She wants to go home

But nobody's home

That's where she lies

Broken inside

With no place to go

No place to go

To dry her eyes

Broken inside

 

Open your eyes

And look outside

Find the reasons why

You've been rejected

And now you can't find

What you left behind

 

Be strong, be strong now

Too many, too many problems

Don't know where she belongs

Where she belongs

 

She wants to go home

But nobody's home

That's where she lies

Broken inside

With no place to go

No place to go

To dry her eyes

Broken inside

 

Her feelings she hides

Her dreams she can't find

She's losing her mind

She's falling behind

 

She can't find her place

She's losing her faith

She's falling from grace

She's all over the place, yeah

 

She wants to go home

But nobody's home

That's where she lies

Broken inside

With no place to go

No place to go to

To dry her eyes

Broken inside

 

She's lost inside, lost inside

She's lost inside, lost inside.

THE POWER OF LOVE LYRICS

CELINE DION

SONGWRITERS: MARY SUSAN APPLEGATE; GUNTHERMENDE-KIM; CANDY DE ROUGE; GUNTHER MENDE & JENNIFER RUSH

COUNTRY: CANADA

ALBUM: THE COLOUR OF MY LOVE

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1993

 

     The Colour of My Love is the third English-language studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion. It was released by Columbia Records/550 Music on 9 November 1993. The songs were produced mainly by David Foster, Ric Wake, Guy Roche, Walter Afanasieff and Christopher Neil, and four of them were written by Diane Warren. The album features cover versions of "The Power of Love" and "When I Fall in Love".

       After its release, The Colour of My Love received generally mixed reviews from music critics but became a huge commercial success, topping the charts in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and a few other European countries, and reaching the top ten elsewhere, including number four in the United States. The Colour of My Love remains one of the best-selling albums of all time selling over 20 million copies worldwide, including six million units in the United States, over 1.8 million copies in the United Kingdom, 1.5 million in Canada and over one million units in Japan. Singles released from the album include the US number one "The Power of Love", the UK number one "Think Twice", and the Japanese chart topper "To Love You More", which was included on the 1995 re-release of The Colour of My Love in Japan. Each of these singles sold over one million copies in these countries.

         The Colour of My Love won two Juno Awards for Album of the Year and Best Selling Album (Foreign or Domestic), and also received the IRMA Award for Best International Female Artist Album. "Think Twice" won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically and "To Love You More" received the International Single Grand Prix at the Japan Gold Disc Award. "When I Fall in Love" won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals in 1994. "The Power of Love" was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1995.

The whispers in the morning

Of lovers sleeping tight

Are rolling by like thunder now

As I look in your eyes

 

I hold on to your whole body

And feel each move you make

Your voice is warm and tender

A love that I could not forsake

 

'Cause I'm your lady

And you are my man

Whenever you reach for me

I'll do all that I can

 

Lost is how I'm feeling lying in your arms

When the world outside's too much to take

That all ends when I'm with you

 

Even though there may be times

It seems I'm far away

Never wonder where I am

'Cause I am always by your side

 

'Cause I'm your lady

And you are my man

Whenever you reach for me

I'll do all that I can

 

We're heading for something

Somewhere I've never been

Sometimes I am frightened

But I'm ready to learn

Of the power of love

 

The sound of your heart beating

Made it clear suddenly

The feeling that I can't go on

Is light years away

 

'Cause I'm your lady

And you are my man

Whenever you reach for me

I'll do all that I can

 

We're heading for something

Somewhere I've never been

Sometimes I am frightened

But I'm ready to learn

Of the power of love

 

The power of love

The power of love.