Valentines is Dead

By that I meant that this was my belated Valentines outfit that I did not wear or post anywhere near that holiday, I don't think that holiday should necessarily die. Just the commercialised portion of it.

Music Playlist Challenge Recap

Guess what! I have completed the Music Playlist Challenge. As a reminder the challenge was to create an outfit that was inspired by a song, which were twelve songs that my sister/fellow blogger I Get Dressed gave me, so it was a stretch from the usual music I gave myself. So in recap here is the twelve songs and twelve outfits I did:

Lightning Crashes by Live



Evacuate the Dancefloor by Cascada



Uprising by Muse




Cowboy Casanova by Carrie Underwood


Umbrella by Rihanna



Soul Sister by Train



Tidal Wave- Owl City



Never Saw Blue Like that - Shawn Colvin


Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles


I'm Just a Girl - No Doubt


I Dreamed a Dream - Susan Boyle/Les Miserables


Consider Me Gone - Reba



I'm not sure what to do with myself fashion-ly speaking. I am very much tempted to do the twelve songs I assigned my sister to myself though. Hope you enjoyed this, I am curious to see which ones were your favorites, so comments are appreciated!

My favorites were probably Never Seen Blue Like That and Consider Me Gone, two songs which I was not crazy about at all ironically.

Music Playlist Challenge: Evacuate the Dancefloor - Cascada

The last one! Well, I wore this outfit a week ago at night and I decided to pull it out in the daylight to do it justice, so here is the last outfit. The inspiration wasn't too difficult, I wanted a fancy dancing outfit.

One Cool Cat

Music Playlist Challenge: Uprising - Muse

hmmm, well. I definately thought this was a more rocker, but this picture makes me want to throw up in my hands. I was going for emo face and I ended up looking like crying....and let's not talk about what in the world my legs are doing. Either way it was not a flattering angle for them.

Anywho, inspiration for this one was pretty straightforward. Glam heavy rock. I freaking love Muse so I was more than happy to dress for this song.

And guess what bloggers, that leaves us with one...two left! I have tried Evacuate the Dancefloor multiple times but can't seem to get a picture out of it, and I tried Lightning Crashes, so I have fulfilled the 30 day limit but I am doing redos. So sorry but it's coming!

I had the most beautiful fashion epiphany with this outfit: my mother's crazy 70 scarf that has every color and is very tricky to match anything actually matched with every color in my tunic! of course I had to put them together, gosh! :D

Music Playlist Challenge: Umbrella - Rihanna

Inspired from the line, "In the sunshine we'll shine together" so I wore yellow. And "Gonna let the rain pour", and I thought the skirt kind of looks like rain falling in the sky, so there you go! :)

Pretty sure I didn't look anything like the music video:

Music playlist Challenge: Video Killed the Radio Star - The Buggles

Well, my inspiration was very straightforward this time around. I just pulled out my favorite parts of New Wave Eighties....and I indeed had a yellow shirt like the band. :P


This me getting all eighties on you, which does not happen much at all because I am mixed about that decade with fashion (as opposed to the 70s or the 20s haha). But it was fun trying it today, all guys responded to this outfit. One guyfriend of mine didn't recognize me. Two said they totally loved the whole outfit. And those two plus two more guys said they really liked the tie. Yeah, I would be a stylish man if I was a man, haha.

Music Playlist Challenge: I'm Just a Girl - No Doubt

Well, this time the first thing that came to my mind was "Gwen Stefani style!", seeing as she is the lead singer of No Doubt. Well, I didn't go with her sporty side, sorry, I chose her other side which includes the signature animal print, the mixing of prints, and you guessed it- red lipstick. It was a good day, got complimented today on my fashion bravery with putting two prints together. I also got called "Cruella Devil" because of my recent use of animal prints and pleather, but oh well, that's besides the point.

Music Playlist Challenge: I Dreamed a Dream - Les Miserables/Susan Boyle?

My sister reference I Dreamed a Dream to Susan Boyle, but I decided to stick to the original source. Well, I decided to go for a modern Les Miserables outfit, basically channeling Broadway French Civil War chic. :P Well, what better than knee high boots and a peasant top, eh? All the characters in this play aren't dressed all frilly like the Bourgeois so I kept it simple but vintagey. However, I Dreamed a Dream is a romantic airy song so I chose a light color palette and wore my heart pendant with a skirt to channel the soft romantic-ness of this part of the play.

Chillaxed

Well, this was when I was home and the weather was just wonderful outside. This is how I do casual. :P

MUSE-ing

Haha, well this was going to be Uprising but I felt different after taking the picture for the following reasons:
1. Muse is just not appropriate for Sunday, nor Sunday dress.
2. I could do better.
But I definately like this outfit, just not quite Glam Rock material, sorry!

Music Playlist Challenge: Consider Me Gone by Reba

To begin, I decided to choose "Consider Me Gone" by Reba. I will admit that I cringed at this song when I saw it because I am not in any ounce a slow modern country kind of girl. In fact, I've just barely learned how to tolerate and maybe like some country music. So here it is:



Allow me to explain the reasoning of selection in clothes in accordance with the song:
Well, I decided that my old cowboy boots were certainly appropriate for this subject. I put a blue shirt on because the mood of the song is heart broken, sad, therefore blue being the appropriate color to express the mood. Reba is a bit twangy and I felt that brown was a appropriate color to coordinate with the blue-ness of the song. However, she does have a point in the song where she sounds a bit more optimistic where she throws in a hint of personality and determination to be happy regardless of a breakup with the line, "Consider me a smile in an old photograph someone who used to make you laugh." The scarf I am wearing is nostalgic in a way, my mother wore it in the 70s, what to me seems to be paradigmed as a happy sunny time.


Well, I had to go to campus for the day so later on I threw on some aviators and my new favorite jacket and laughed, because I felt like I made this outfit wayyy too Indie for Reba, but that was my honest effort to try to interpret her outfit. I guess you can't ever really escape your own taste. Hit next on the playlist then. :P

Listen to Reba here

Presenting....Music Playlist Challenge!

Dear Bloggers,

Today I would like to give you a collaborative project with blogger/sister I Get Dressed. We don't live in the same state anymore because I went away for school so inspiring each other in the fashion realm has gotten a bit trickier. However, I told her about how sometimes I get a lot of inspiration from music and I will make a whole outfit depending on a song that I hear (most of my outfit titles are songs anyway...), so she got the idea of giving each other 12 songs, any songs, even ones that may not fit to our taste and get fashion inspiration from it, so I present to you what i would call....The music playlist challenge! Here are the songs which she assigned me:

1. Just a Girl- No Doubt

2. Hey Soul Sister- Train

3. Evacuate the Dancefloor- Cascada

4. Cowboy Casanova- Carrie Underwood

5. Umbrella- Rihanna

6. Never Saw Blue Like That- Shawn Colvin

7. Uprising- Muse

8. Lightning Crashes- Live

9. Tidal Wave- Owl City

10. Video Killed the Radio Star - The Buggles

11. I Dreamed a Dream- Susan Boyle

12. Consider Me Gone - Reba

They will not be presented in this order, but stick around, they have to all be done in the next thirty days!

Hot funk, Cold Punk, even if it's old junk it's still rock n roll to me

First Day of Winter Semester

Hmmm...this looks almost familiar. haha

Communication Breakdown

Well bloggers, one definite resolution was to get back to my taste for rocker things. I have had a difficult time because a lot of rocker stuff lately has been grungy eighties and I want more of the rock-chic look. I felt I obtained it this day with the boots, bomber, black gloves and silver chain accessories- ok and the dress contributed :P Either way I was very proud of obtaining this look very well. Some friends gave me compliments but most seemed to be a bit shocked, one friend told me I should just dye my hair black while I'm at it haha.

New Years Fireworks

Dear Blog Readers:
I will have to make official fashion New Years resolutions sometime, and I started to get some ideas today, but nothing set in stone. I will get back to you on that but until then here is some super awesome outfits this week. Happy New Year!

Did I Dissapear?

For all those wondering what in the world happened the last two weeks, I will tell you:

first of all, it snowed, and setting a camera on the ground to take a picture was a bit difficult, and then all I could stand to wear outside was my trench coat, so I figured that would not leave for a very exciting picture.

Next, Finals. Nuff' said.

Finally, laziness. I got home and on break, but I didn't bring any clothes figuring I would restock while I was home so I have been minimally motivated to think up a cute outfit.

But on other report, here's what I have in store for Move To Another Beat:

New Name....still same link (eclecticrocking.blogspot.com). But I want something a little more eye catching or appealing with the title.

And with a new name comes a new face. Yes, I have wanted to redo this blog for months now, once I come up with a plan I will execute it.

New Year Style Resolutions...every year, I hope I do this...I need to check last years.

So hang tight, and here's two pictures to compensate for my two weeks absence...hahahaha. I cry at the quality picture.