Professor Green feat. Lily Allen - Just Be Good To Green (HD)

I'm a pretty big Lily Allen fan, but a lot of her stuff sort of blends together for me... this on the other hand is a GREAT side of her. She definitely needs to do more stuff like this. I'm indifferent about Pro Green... but I love Lily's bit in this!

Tinchy Stryder - Gangsta? (Game Over feat. Tinie Tempah)

LOVE LOVE LOVE!

I'm glad Tinchy is finally putting out something new, and I sort of love Tinie Tempah (as is now painfully obvious...).

B.o.B "Lovelier Than You" UNPLUGGED

This guy is AMAZING. Another reason why I totally totally love him. He is supposed to be a rapper... so what is this? SO much talent.

New York Cityyy

So I spent all of last week in NYC for a Model United Nations event with the United Nations Association. This year was my third year doing this conference, and to be honest this conference is my favorite one that I do each year (sorry MUNUC/Chomun kids, its sort of true).

It was different for me this year though because I served as an Under-Secretary General (USG) for the Humanitarian committees. So basically I oversaw that these committees were run without a hitch. It was a big job. I spent the better part of the last six months training my staff via the internet and prepping the conference materials for these committees. No big deal.

I got to NYC on Monday last week and spent two days at the UNA office helping the other Senior Staff (the other USGs and fancy people) prep for the rest of the staff to arrive. Monday night we had a great dinner at Sam's parents house. Hayes (the SecGen/Head Honcho) made some INCREDIBLE pancakes. The staff arrived Tuesday afternoon and that evening I took the Humanitarian kids out for chicken wings (LOVE).

From there the conference unfolded and we all had a lot of fun. I'm not going to go into detail about every waking minute and what we did, but suffice it to say that I had a great time, and even though I thought this year was going to be my last year I may or may not have agreed to going back next year. The rest of the Senior Staff was AMAZING and we had so much fun getting to know each other and hanging out. I can honestly say that I loved/love every single one of them and we had no dramas! High-five!

Anyways I'll leave you with a few photos and a list of fun memories.

Eating KFC Double Downs. Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh my goshh. The Blarney Stone. Steven's motorboating thing. Sailboating? Call signs. When Imbrenda split his pants. Chicken Wings. Little pants-less Sammy. Club TOUCH.


All Staff Photo in GA Hall. LOVE!

CHICKEN WINGS!

Being all Legit with my walkie talkie in the UN building.

Can't wait till next year!

xoxo Nora

Tinie Tempah performs 'Frisky' - Radio 1's Big Weekend in Bangor

I'm SO SO SO OBSESSED WITH THIS AT THE MOMENT. I wish I'd been there to see it!!!

Aggro Santos feat Kimberly Wyatt - Candy (Official Video) (OUT NOW!!!!!)

Fun dance tune. I particularly like the video if only because I would LOOVE to have a glow in the dark super soaker/water balloon fight! Check ittt.

Tinie Tempah ft. Labrinth - Frisky (HD)

I think I posted the audio to this one already, but here is the video. Tinie Tempah is one of my number one fave rappers right now, and Labrinth (the guy who produced this) is doing so pretty cool things. My roommates sort of hate me because I play this a lot and rather loud, and well they don't like rap ;-)

Kid Sister - Daydreaming

This is a really great song from an up and coming artist. The one downer is she's a pretty shit actress so the video is a bit painful to watch, but the song is really good. I like the second verse, when she takes it double time and does a bit of a rap on it. Good stuff.

JLS -- The Club is Alive

So JLS have released a minute of their upcoming single "The Club is Alive" ...of course this had me up early and squealing like a tween, but who cares right? I sat down before work this morning and listened through it once, and then again, and then I put it on the loud speakers because my roommates were up and had one more listen.

http://www.jlsofficial.com/gb/songs/the-club-is-alive/

After the first listen I was a bit confused. Was this really JLS? The second listen through was better as I started to feel the vibe of the song and all that. And then on the speakers... I feel in love.

The track is a bit different than their past tracks, which is already creating some controversy online. It's definitely a big dance number, intended to be a summer jam type song... hence the name "The Club is Alive". There is a lot of effects on it, and they use autotune a bit (which let's be real is in these days... ask the Black Eyed Peas, Ke$ha, Gaga...), but JLS is still down there. The hook bit is straight up boy band harmony, so JLS are still in there doubters.

The most unsettling bit on first listen was the sound of music sample... "the club is alive with the sound of music" But after a few listens I actually really like that part, and think Steve Mac (the producer) is sort of a genius. It's insanely catchy too, I've already gotten it stuck in my head and I've only heard a one minute clip.

The boys have pretty much achieved everything they've needed to in this record. It's almost summertime and they need a big banger and they've got one. I predict it'll go big in the UK Charts, and it could do well in the US if they chose to release it over here. It'll also let them take some time to sort out a big jack-the-lad swing hit for the fall which will be more vocally challenging...

I'm definitely looking forward to the full version and the video, watch this space for more ;-)

B.o.B- Not Lost (feat. T.I.) [Best Quality w/ lyrics]

BIG TUUUNE. It's a shame that it isn't on the album, it's huge. Also the producer on the track is JR Rotem who is pretty much my favorite producer at this point (think Jason Derulo's 'Whatcha Say', Iyaz' 'Replay' and JLS' 'Everybody in Love'). For real though, this is so goooood. Obviously I'm obsessed with B.o.B at present ;-)

Sam Sparro - Black and Gold

I've been a bit obsessed with this song for the last two days. Not entirely sure why. I also quite enjoy the Katy Perry cover and the Ellie Goulding one too. It's a cool song and you can definitely do a lot with it.