Hey guys!

Hope you’re all having a great Bank Holiday weekend! I visited Southwark Park on the weekend and it’s become one of my favourite parks – the Ada Salter Garden is stunning and I can’t wait to visit in a few weeks’ time when the wisteria has fully bloomed! Today I’m going to share a playlist of the songs I’ve listened to during April.

Demi Lovato FINALLY dropped her seventh album ‘Dancing With The Devil…The Art of Starting Over’ at the beginning of April, and if you haven’t heard it already, you’re seriously missing out! ‘Dancing With The Devil…The Art of Starting Over’ is an incredible and I absolutely LOVE every single song on the album. While songs like ‘Anyone’ and ‘Dancing With The Devil’ really highlight Demi’s powerful vocals, a number of the tracks on the second half of the album show a softer side to her voice (e.g. ‘The Art Of Starting Over’ and ‘Melon Cake’). The album is best played to in order, as it takes the listener on a journey from mid-2018, when Demi relapsed, to her relationship with Max Elrich (who she sings about in ’15 Minutes’), and to 2021, when Demi is the happiest she’s been in a long time (‘Good Place’). There are also a few collaborations on ‘Dancing With The Devil…The Art of Starting Over’, with Sam Fischer, Saweetie, Noah Cyrus and Ariana Grande. It’s so hard to decide which songs from the album are my favourite, as they’re all so amazing, but the standout tracks are definitely ‘Dancing With The Devil’, ‘Met Him Last Night’, ‘Lonely People’, ‘Easy’ and ‘Melon Cake’.

When I’ve taken one of my rare breaks from listening to ‘Dancing With The Devil…The Art of Starting Over’ on repeat, I’ve also enjoyed new music from various other artists, such as Years & Years, Beth Crowley, Doja Cat, Marina, Twenty One Pilots, Julia Michaels, Olivia O’Brien, Lauren Jauregui, Aly & AJ and Savannah Outen. ‘Starstruck’ by Years & Years is a song I can’t get enough of – it’s so catchy and makes me want to get up and dance! Savannah Outen’s new song ‘What Are We’ is also amazing – if you haven’t heard of Savannah Outen, she’s basically a YouTube singer who kinda sounds like a mix of Christina Aguilera and Demi Lovato. Doja Cat’s latest collaboration, ‘Kiss Me More’, is also worth mentioning. She’s teamed up with SZA and it’s such a good song!

I can’t not include ‘Fearless (Taylor’s Version)’ from this month’s playlist! Taylor has been super super busy throughout the pandemic: while she was recording ‘Folklore’ and ‘Evermore’, she was also working on new versions of her earlier albums. ‘Fearless (Taylor’s Version)’ is the first rerecorded album Taylor released. The original album was released way back in 2008 and includes songs like ‘Love Story’, ‘You Belong With Me’ and ‘Breathe’. ‘Fearless (Taylor’s Version)’ comprises of exactly the same songs, albeit with some unreleased tracks from “The Vault” (e.g. ‘You All Over Me’, ‘Mr Perfectly Fine’ and ‘Don’t You’). All of the songs on ‘Fearless (Taylor’s Version)’ sound exactly the same as the originals, although there are some minor changes in terms of breaths. My favourite songs are more or less the same on both versions of ‘Fearless’: ‘Love Story’, ‘You Belong With Me’ and ‘Fifteen’.

In addition to all the new songs that were released this month, I’ve also rediscovered some of my fave throwback hits from the 2000s, thanks to TikTok! Some examples are ‘Dumb’ by Tich, ‘Scandalous’ by Mis-Teeq and ‘Cliche’ by Christina Grimmie.

Without further ado, here’s my April 2021 playlist:

1. Anyone – Demi Lovato
2. Dancing With The Devil – Demi Lovato
3. ICU (Madison’s Lullabye) – Demi Lovato
4. The Art Of Starting Over – Demi Lovato
5. Lonely People – Demi Lovato
6. The Way You Don’t Look At Me – Demi Lovato
7. Melon Cake – Demi Lovato
8. Met Him Last Night – Demi Lovato ft Ariana Grande
9. What Other People Say – Sam Fischer with Demi Lovato
10. Carefully – Demi Lovato
11. The Kind Of Lover I Am – Demi Lovato
12. Easy – Demi Lovato with Noah Cyrus
13. 15 Minutes – Demi Lovato
14. My Girlfriends Are My Boyfriend – Demi Lovato ft Saweetie
15. California Sober – Demi Lovato
16. Mad World – Demi Lovato
17. Butterfly – Demi Lovato
18. Good Place – Demi Lovato
19. Sunset – Demi Lovato
20. Kiss Me More – Doja Cat ft SZA
21. What Are We – Savannah Outen
22. Sabotage – Bebe Rexha
23. Starstruck – Years & Years
24. Chosen Family – Rina Sawayama with Elton John
25. Save Your Tears – The Weeknd with Ariana Grande
26. 2:30 – Nicole Jaskot
27. Problems – Hey Violet
28. Storm Chaser – Beth Crowley
29. Shy Away – Twenty One Pilots
30. Purge The Poison – MARINA
31. Sociopath – Olivia O’Brien
32. Anywhere Away from Here – Rag’n’Bone Man & P!nk
33. LazyBaby – Dove Cameron
34. Don’t Need Nothing – Aly & AJ
35. Symptom of Your Touch – Aly & AJ
36. Hard 4 Me 2 Love You – Sinead Harnett
37. Dumb – Tich
38. Scandalous – Mis-Teeq
39. Finish Line – Yasmin
40. Runaway – Devlin, Yasmin
41. Ass Back Home – Gym Class Heroes ft Neon Hitch
42. Get Back (ASAP) – Alexandra Stan
43. Cliche – Christina Grimmie
44. Habits (Stay High) – Tove Lo
45. Sad To See You Happy – Olivia Lunny
46. I’m not Pretty (Remix) – JESSIA ft Bebe Rexha
47. Love Line – Shift K3Y with Tinashe
48. Look Who’s Cryin’ Now – Jessie Murph
49. Fearless (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift
50. Fifteen (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift
51. Love Story (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift
52. Hey Stephen (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift
53. White Horse (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift
54. You Belong With Me (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift
55. Breathe (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift ft Colbie Caillat
56. Tell Me Why (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift
57. You’re Not Sorry (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift
58. The Way I Loved You (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift
59. Forever & Always (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift
60. The Best Day (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift
61. Change (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift
62. Jump Then Fall (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift
63. Untouchable (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift
64. Come In With The Rain (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift
65. Superstar (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift
66. The Other Side Of The Door (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift
67. Today Was A Fairytale (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift
68. You All Over Me (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift ft Maren Morris
69. Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault) – Taylor Swift
70. We Were Happy (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault) – Taylor Swift
71. That’s When (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault) – Taylor Swift ft Keith Urban
72. Don’t You (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault) – Taylor Swift
73. Bye Bye Baby (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault) – Taylor Swift
74. Brutus – Emma Blackery
75. Twisted Fantasy – Kara Marni
76. I Don’t Like You – Dynamyte
77. I Can’t Trust Myself – Sarah Close
78. Dirty Laundry – Parson James & JoJo
79. Montana – Daya
80. Found My Friends – Hayley Kiyoko
81. Temporary – Lauren Jauregui
82. Venus Sunrise – Lia Maria Johnson
83. Without You (Miley Cyrus Remix) – The Kid LAROI & Miley Cyrus
84. transparent soul – WILLOW ft Travis Barker
85. Do My Thang – Alli Fitz
86. All Your Exes – Julia Michaels
87. Love Is Weird – Julia Michaels
88. Pessimist – Julia Michaels
89. Little Did I Know – Julia Michaels
90. Orange Magic – Julia Michaels
91. Lie Like This – Julia Michaels
92. Wrapped Around – Julia Michaels
93. History – Julia Michaels
94. Undertone – Julia Michaels
95. That’s The Kind Of Woman – Julia Michaels

So there’s my very very long April 2021 playlist! I wasn’t expecting to include so many songs but April was such a great month for music! What artists have you been listening to recently? I’d love to hear any recommendations! 

Serena