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#12 Turning the page to new chapters – moving on and getting over…or moving back in, I guess?? | Off The Record
06/24 Welcome back to another blog post on Off The Record, and true to the style it’s a lil messy but very heartfelt. And it’s the first one written and published on the new self-hosted website! Took me a while…
Analysis: ‘Orange Show Speedway’ by Lizzy McAlpine | Storytelling in Songs #3
Quick preface, I realize that this seems to be a bit of a random song choice for June 2024 but it fits my life right now, alright? I know that Lizzy has released a new album rather recently and I…
#9 What if I told you I’m back? The hospital was a drag – a brain dump | Off the record
07 May ’24 “I haven’t come around in so long, but I’m coming back so strong” – The alchemy, Taylor Swift. The way that song has been out for like two weeks and it’s already embedded in my brain deeply…
Watching ‘House of the Dragon’: My Live Reaction Commentary to Season One
Jan 2024 What even is live reaction commentry, you ask? I did it for ‘The bucchaneers’ series as well and really enjoyed it, so here we are, I did it again lol. Basically, I wrote down my thoughts while watching…
#8 Is it new years yet? my favorites and reflections – a 2023 time capsule | Off the record
Hiya, how are you? I am indeed still alive and I have not forgotten about this blog. I did forget about this particular post for a while though lol, which is why this is late. I mostly wrote this at…
Watching ‘The Buccaneers’: My Live Reaction Commentary to Season One
This is something new that I tried for this TV show. I basically wrote down my thoughts while watching. Sometimes I was too engrossed to comment anything, but generally it’s like those reaction videos on YouTube but blog style. That’s…
‘My Life with the Walter Boys’ Season One kinda sucks and here is why | TV Show Review
This TV show is hilariously dumb. It got me annoyed at pretty much every character. It’s like a badly written Wattpad fanfic. And I hate love triangles. Especially involving brothers. Wtf is that trope. Honestly. That’s disturbing. And sad. The…
#7 Spotify wrapped and the year 2023 in music (Skye’s Version) | Off the record
21/12/23 Welcome to another off the record blog post. I’m super excited for this one 🙂 You know what I just realized today? 2019 was five years ago. FIVE YEARS. What. Anyway, this is probably the second to last blog…
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Analysis: ‘”Slut!” (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault]’ by Taylor Swift | Storytelling in Songs #3
This is the first track off of the ‘1989 TV’ album’s vault, released a few weeks ago now, in October 2023. “Slut!” was presumably written around 2013/14, as the whole album was, by Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff and Patrik Berger….
#6 Cozy chat about balance, pressure, and self-sabotage – it’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me | Off the record
18/11/23 Let’s get this started, shall we. If this is my first blog post you’re reading, hi! Welcome! Get ready for a fun time! And if it’s not, welcome back, glad you stuck around <3 Today I’m planning on a…
A rainy walk beneath sand mountains | True Blue #2
He always walks fast. Faster than me and my mom and my siblings, and then he complains about having to wait for us. Not today though. It’s just the two of us and the rain. I think he was happy…
#5 Me myself and I: concepts of self, labels and being perceived – identity crises? join the club | Off the record
06/11/23 Guess what I just realized! I have already published ten posts on here! We’ve passed the threshold, guys. We did it. Well, I did it. No one is reading this, still. I have been working on the socials though,…
Analysis: ‘Clean’ by Taylor Swift | Storytelling in Songs #2
I am beyond excited for 1989 TV to come out!! Four more days!!! Surreal. So obviously I thought: How about analyzing one of the strongest metaphor songs I know? And now here we are to talk about ‘Clean’, the closing…
#4 As a wise person once said: All you are is mean – how is this the world we’re living in | Off the record
22/10/23 Hellou, hellouuuu! I had a topic planned for this post, but I’m postponing it. We’re gonna have a nice little catch up instead and talk about things that have been on my mind. I’ve just watched a bit more…
Analysis: ‘Wendy’ by Maisie Peters | Storytelling in Songs #1
published on September 23, 2024 It took me a while to figure out what my first song analysis would be. Choosing ‘Wendy’ by Maisie Peters just feels right. To precede this I want to say that in my head I…
#3 Failure, waiting for permission and being in your own way – all I do is try try try | Off the record
09/09/23 Hi, and welcome back to the Skye Mahdi Blog. I just wrote that with the most British reporter voice ever saying it in my head. We’re off to a great start, because you don’t have to actually hear my…
#2 Survival mode and overthinking – comparing life to rollercoasters and crossroads | Off the record
14/08/23 Hello, hello, welcome back. I’ve not been very consistent with writing on here and I’m gonna have to work on that as well as my social media but life has been veery busy. Where I’ve been: Lots has changed…
His 50ieth and where it all began | True Blue #1
19/02/2023 I am starting to work on this on his 50iest birthday. He is sitting on the couch across the room from me, reading an old dignified version of the Koran with a green cover and gold embroidery that is…
#1 Welcome To My Blog – I’m finally doing it!
18/07/23 This is my first blog post. Well, the first one after the ones I took down a year ago when I first got this blog up and running and gave it up again after about two posts. I’m planning…
‘Oxymoron’ by me | My writing
written in Spring 2022 a very personal poem in song form It’s about the inner turmoil of feelings when people bring out the best and the worst in each other. An oxymoron is per definition a figure of speech in…
Book Review: ‘P.S. I like you’ by Kasie West
a sweet, smile-inducing, feel-good YA romance published on Jan 7, 2022 approx. 8min to read How the story is set up Lily is the slightly awkward and refreshingly witty main character (and POV character) of the young adult contemporary romance…
Book Review: Maxton-Hall Series by Mona Kasten
easy-read new adult romance published on Jan 6, 2022 approx. 8min to read How the story is set up The general trope of the trilogy is a rich, popular bad boy (called James) falling for a smart good girl (named…