This Is My Life
This Is My Life may refer to:
Albums
- This Is My Life (La vita), a 1968 Italian release by Bassey
Songs
This Is My Life (Eurobandið song)
"This Is My Life" is a eurodance song, sung by the Icelandic pop duo Eurobandið. It was Iceland's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2008 placing 14th in a field of 25th.
Background
"This Is My Life", along with its Icelandic version, "Fullkomið líf", has been described as a "full-on dance anthem with a pounding beat" and "soaring vocals". The Icelandic version was used during the Icelandic national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, Laugardagslögin.
At Eurovision
"This Is My Life" was chosen to be presented first at the second semi-final where it was placed eighth with 68 points. In the final, the song came in 14th place, gaining 64 points. Although ranking only 14th, it became the most successful Icelandic entry since the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 where Iceland placed 8th.
Track listing
This Is My Life (Shirley Bassey album)
This Is My Life is a 1968 album by Shirley Bassey. The mid to late sixties was a period of declining popularity for traditional pop. How much the changing tastes in popular music directly affected Bassey's record sales is difficult to quantify; but her record sales had been faltering since the latter part of the mid 60s, and the album failed to chart. (She did have some success in Italy during this period, where she recorded several songs in Italian, with two making the Top 40 there).
This is different from the album of Edward Maya released in Maya 2010.
The version of "This Is My Life" appearing on side two is the English-only version, with lyrics by Norman Newell, and would become one of Bassey's signature songs.
The original album was issued in mono and stereo. The stereo version of this album has been released on CD twice, firstly, in the late 1990s, on the EMI 2-CD set Shirley Bassey The Collection and a digitally re-mastered release for CD in 2009 together with Does Anybody Miss Me by BGO Records.
Podcasts:
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by Hodgy Beats
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by Calvin Russell
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by Sator
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by Andrew Strong
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by Tiffany Giardina
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by Anna Bergendahl
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by 7 Seconds
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by Gary Numan
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by Tom Jones
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by Narnia
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by Carly Simon
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by Fefe Dobson
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by Elli
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by Phil Vassar
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by Shirley Bassey
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by Chrome
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by Silke Bischoff
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by Hyper Crush
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by Diamond Rio
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by Ben Parry
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by Eartha Kitt
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by Bzn
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by Miss Montreal
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by Pay No Respect
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by Cali Agents
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by Slim Thug
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by Brodie
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by Lloyd
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by Sarina Paris
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by Firewater
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by Billy Joel
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by Kingdom Come
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by Joana Zimmer
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by Desperation Band
This Is My Life
by: Hodgy Beats[Intro:]
Is this thing on?
Alright, cool
[Verse 1:]
Three years ago, I was a freshman
Coming in the hostel of the game like a veteran
You had to dot my eyes good with letters in
Girls had my name on the left of their lettermans
And, yeah I had a little fee
What she didn't know was that I had about three
I wanna come to them, nigga they come to me
Hodgy Beats was steppin on those wannabes
Niggas would copy, girls would jock me
They though I was cocky, lil' nigga not even a jocky
Skinny niggas ride, fuck being stocky
The haters I was chalking, but they wouldn't stop me
But fooling when I wanted to, foolin when I wanted to
Doing what I wanted to, they drooling when I'm coming
through
When the game fronting that's not gon' stop from doing
what I wanna do I do what I wanna do
[Hook:]
This is my life, I'm gonna live it right, gonna live it
right
This is my past, let you see through it just like
glass, just like glass
This is my life, I'm gonna live it right, gonna live it
right
This is my past, let you see through it just like
glass, this is my life
[Verse 2:]
This here Hodgy Q, and he's a rapper
The crap on your lap leave your spot with laughter
Break niggas down on the fact
And when they wanted to act, he backed it up
But couldn't keep his tracks up
Remember that day, on that bus? when he cussed him out?
When they thought he roughed it out?
Kids were watching like they were scouts
He's special in my eyes, but niggas had a doubt
His girl told him that until she found out
He had another chick, house and a couch with swagger on
the mouth
She went down south
He had a lil' ring around his finger, a girlfriend and
a spouse
So he wasn't committed to a youngful commitment
She wasn't with it
So she told him to get it
Gone, he ain't wrong
She got left right, where she big mon
And that's a true story
[Hook:]
This is my life, I'm gonna live it right, gonna live it
right
This is my past, let you see through it just like
glass, just like glass
This is my life, I'm gonna live it right, gonna live it
right
This is my past, let you see through it just like
glass, this is my life