As a musician, his career requires him to travel all over the word. So, each time he returns home he truly treasures every moment with his wife and two kids.
Chrissy recently shared a video of the two lovebirds in which John is looking into her eyes with a content smile.
The mum is trying to play the piano and sing along to the notes like her talented hubby.
But she and John can’t keep it together and break out in hysterics, laughing at her musical attempt.
For those who don’t know, she is the musical genius behind 11 Chainsmokers’ songs (including Grammy-winning Don’t Let Me Down), Dua Lipa’s New Rules, David Guetta’s Say My Name, and so many more.
The rockstar has written some of her own music as well which you’ve most likely heard, including Paranoid and Hurt by You.
All of the New York native’s music has one thing in common – it is 100 percent honest.
Her lyrics are brave and daring, exposing the toxic side of love that no one wants to talk about. And her new album is seriously amazing! Combining her previous singles with new releases, it will take you on an emotional journey of pain, love, mistrust and finally, letting go.
It is so refreshing to hear about real relationships in the singer’s songs, and this is really important to Emily. She writes everything from personal experience so people can connect with her on an intimate level.
“It starts off as my own thoughts,” she explained. “I have to allow myself to get uncomfortable.
“The more honest I am in my writing, the more possible it is for people to connect with it. Because if you say something vulnerable, it’s something that other people have felt too.
“I try to have each song pinpoint a moment or a specific feeling and explore that.”
Dubbing her album “a diary”, the singer explained a huge part of song-writing is about becoming vulnerable. “It shows me at my most exposed and shows things that I’m more resistant to talk about in real life.”
And a lot of her songs are about how helpful and scary becoming this vulnerable can be, especially in relationships.
“I don’t know if everyone needs to share it as much as a songwriter does,” she said. “But in order to fall in love at all, you have to open yourself to the possibility of getting hurt. It’s scary but it’s a part of it. If you always have a wall up, you’ll never fully feel what it’s like to open yourself up to another person.”
Her music is all about taking these risks and reminiscing in the moment because that’s what love is all about. However, she also vocalises the fears that hold us back from fully opening ourselves up to another person.
One thing Emily, like most of us, does is get caught up in her own headspace, overthinking things way too much.
“I’m definitely an overthinker. Part of the reason I wrote [Paranoid] is because it’s so possible to get a small thought in your head and indulge in it, letting it spiral out of control. It turns into a whole story you’ve made up. Working through that and getting through being paranoid, jealous, suspicious, and not-trusting is crucial in order to get anywhere.
“I’ve a lot of friends who are in relationships where they don’t fully trust the other person and it’s endlessly painful. I was experiencing some of that too and working through that was a big level up.”
This could be caused by the massive influence social media has on modern-day relationships. Technology has transformed relationships from what they were in previous decades.
“My grandparents met when they were like 16 or 17 and that was it,” Emily explained. “There was never a question about anything. I think now there’s so many options that even if something’s good, people wonder ‘what else is there because I can easily meet someone on an app right now’.
“And culturally, music from when my grandparents were kids is so different from music now. It was all pretty much sweet love songs and now there’s hardly any just straight-up love songs. I definitely think that culture and social media are impacting that, and it’s really hard to navigate.”
In the movies, the girl meets the guy and they end up happily ever after. There’s no guidebook to navigating relationships in the technological age. What do we do if he’s liking another girl’s Insta pictures or snapchatting an ex? And is it wrong to innocently flirt with other guys online?
If we ever feel lonely, our phones are always in reach to give us the attention we seek, whether it’s Tinder or a new Insta compliment. And sometimes this compensation can keep us in a toxic relationship in the real world. We get what we need online, so we don’t notice as much when our partner isn’t giving it to us.
Staying in an unhealthy relationship “stems from insecurity and just not thinking that we deserve anything better”, Emily said. She’s seen this in a lot of her friends’ and her own relationships.
“They put up with the bullshit because this person loves them. And that’s something I think about a lot in songwriting, like New Rules. Music has the power to influence things like that. If you can convince people that they deserve better that, as scary as it is to be single for a second, it’s better than constantly dealing with someone who’s taking advantage of you.
“Ugh! That’s such a common thing and it’s sad because it’s really frustrating to try and convince somebody of that when you see it so clearly and they don’t.”
We’ve all been where Emily has – seeing a friend with someone that’s making them unhappy, but they refuse to admit it to themselves. They are too close to the issue to see it. So, where do they get this concept from?
At some point, when girls are growing up they learn that men can get away with ill behaviour if they are in love. They start making excuses for the guy that their dating. “It was just one time” or “He didn’t mean it, he was just drunk (or angry)”.
“Film, tv, and music” are part of the reason, Emily answered. “What I’ve been noticing just from being in writing rooms this past year after #metoo and everything went down is that the tone is actually changing for the first time.
“People won’t suggest certain lyrics that they would have suggested a year ago. We underestimate how powerful lyrics are that are on the radio or how movies are. If you watch a movie now from the 90s, it’s pretty shocking what the girls are putting up with. They would never make a movie like that now.
“So, I do think media is a reflection of culture, one informs the other back and forth. It’s everywhere and it’s finally changing. It may take some time, but I do think it will have an impact.”
Women have began standing up themselves against the big guys like Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby. And it’s exciting to be a part of this generation, as the tide begins to shift towards equality.
However, when it comes to modern relationships there is still this circling fear of ‘putting a label on it’.
“Having a bunch of friends who are now in open relationships or people getting married really young, it’s kind of all over the place right now,” Emily agreed. “What I’ve learned in making this album and in my own personal life over the last year is that there is no right answer or right way to do it.
“Trust your gut. Maybe you will fuck it up. That’s the point of Hurt by You, maybe it will all go to shit but you still do it, you still have to experience it. As painful as heartbreak can be, it’s unavoidable and it’s part of life – to know that and let yourself be vulnerable is probably one of the best ways to experience being a human being."
Emily’s album "Quiet Your Mind" explores all the feels we get in relationships – before, after, and during. It doesn’t hold back but strips us down to our most vulnerable selves.
It comes out today so make sure to check it out on Spotify.
You've made your own GP appointments, you purchase avocados, kale and buckwheat on the regular and your parents have finally stopped paying your phone bill.
Yet, something deep within you feels that you're not quite adulting as well as you could be.
Whether that's because you haven't quite managed to fly the nest or because the phrase 'savings account' feels like a major obstacle to your G&T consumption, science is on your side if you still feel like a bit of a teen.
According to the Lancet Child & Adolescent HealthJournal, a study has found that the adolescent brain hasn't fully developed until the age of 24, not 18 as so many think.
'The transition period from childhood to adulthood now occupies a greater portion of the life course than ever before,' reads the study, entitled The Age of Adolescence.
According to the study, 24 is the age we officially exit teenhood and become fully fledged adults.
So, if you haven't yet blown out 24 candles, you're safe to resume your strop-throwing, pizza-binging ways.
However if you're officially over the hill, you have no scientific excuse for your lack of adulting.
Cereal is one of our ultimate meals and there's so much choice to be had.
To be honest, we are lazy AF, so pouring a bowl of cereal is perfectly acceptable as dinner.
But could our addiction to cereal be more about the sugar content, rather than the convenience?
An experiment conducted by Behind the Label revealed that we aren't actually pouring ourselves the 30g serving of cereal like we are suppose to.
In fact, we are doubling or tripling our portion sizes without even realising. – So put down the cereal box and take note.
The study asked participants to pour their regular breakfast bowl of cereal into either a small (standard soup) sized bowl or a larger dinner bowl.
And the results are pretty shocking.
The average portion of sweetened diet cereal was three times (93g) the recommended portion size, which meant bowl came in at 351 calories and a staggering 14g of sugar.
To put that into human terms, that's more sugar than a glazed doughnut, which contains 12.6g of the sweet stuff.
The standard Crunchy Cornflakes poured was double the guided portion size (78g), but the kicker came with the sugar content.
Hold onto your spoons as it came in at 27.46g of sugar, which adds up to two and half glazed doughnuts worth of sugar.
Granola isn't weighing up so fabulously either, participants helped themselves to portions almost double to what we are suppose to be having, which means they wolfed down 389 calories and 21.84g of sugar.
And finally, a Muesil brand was the best of a bad bunch with people having a double helping which equates to four grams of the white stuff and 308 calories.
The eye-opening results shows that we are overindulging in cereals and the labels aren't much to go by.
As we tuck into a bowl, we think we are being good and keeping it within a certain amount of calories, when we are actually blowing our wonderful intentions out of the water.
So put down the spoon, put the away the milk and go buy a weighing scales, if you really want accuracy.
Or alternatively, just be mindful that you're consuming more than you think and adjust accordingly.
Even though the results are shocking, our love of cereal wil be a hard one to break up with.
The rumours were true. One of our fave Love Island stars has signed up for Dancing On Ice and we are ridiculously excited about it.
There’s been a Love Island shaped hole in our hearts since Jack and Dani were crowned champions so we were thrilled to hear one of the Casa Amor residents will be returning to our screens very soon.
Dancing On Ice has confirmed Wes Nelson will be taking part in this year's show. The reality star will be gliding (or stumbling) around the ice in the coming months.
Wes revealed the exciting new project on his Instagram account. He wrote: “This is going to be a right laugh. Salsa on ice bebehhhhh!”
Rumours about Wes’ appearance on the show started circulating in September. Apparently, the Dancing On Ice producers were eager to have him on the show after he showed off his impressive dance moves on Love Island.
A TV source told The Sun: “Wes has boundless energy and he’s already displayed great rhythm on Love Island, so Dancing On Ice execs thought he’d be a great choice for the series.”
The producers knew the 20-year-old would be a perfect addition: “He has a huge social media following and bosses know that a lot of Love Island fans will be desperate to see how he does.”
Unless you have been living under a highlighter-free, internet resistant rock, you will have heard of Huda Beauty.
Huda Kattan owns one of the most popular beauty inspiration and makeup tutorial Instagram pages on the net, and boasts a following of 27.7million.
As well as being one of the world's biggest beauty influencers, the mum-of-one has also created a seriously popular makeup brand – which landed in Ireland last year.
Tickets are €25.00 for the makeup masterclass, and you can expect to get an exciting gift with purchase if you nab yourself two Huda Beauty goodies from the beauty counter.
It’s been too long since we waved goodbye to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. There’s a Hogwarts shaped hole in our hearts and re-watching the movies a dozen times just doesn’t seem to mend it.
So, we were only delighted when two of our fave Harry Potter stars reunited this week.
Tom Felton took to Instagram to share the photo fans have been longing for since the final Harry Potter movie aired seven years ago.
Two years ago, the world watched in horror as news broke of KUWTK star Kim Kardashian's horrific ordeal at the hands of robbers during Paris Fashion Week.
The entrepreneur was held at gunpoint and robbed of an estimated $10 million in cash and jewellery. The thieves were eventually caught and imprisoned.
Now, the insurance company that covered Kim after the incident is suing her bodyguard of the time.
Pascal Duvier and his company Protect Security are being sued for an alleged $6.1 million by insurance company American International Group, also known as AIG.
In court documents accessed by CNN, the company claims Duvier 'negligently, carelessly, and/or recklessly performed their protection, security, monitoring, inspection, and/or surveying' of Kim and her temporary accommodation at the time of the crime.
In the document, AIG says the defendants left Kim alone in her room at an address completely unsuitable in a security sense to house the star and her high-value belongings.
It's believed Kim and Kanye relieved Pascal of his professional duties shortly after the robbery.
Kim spoke at length in the aftermath of the robbery about how the incident had impacted her life.
'While I’m being tied up, I’m like, ‘Are we going to die? Are they gonna kill us?’ And I was just crying and like, ‘Tell them I have babies,' she recalled on a heartbreaking episode of KUWTK
We can’t deny Halloween is one of our fave holidays, and the perfect excuse to binge some spooky flicks.
If you’re hosting a gals night or you're just a horror loving junkie, we have the top picks for some Netflix and chills.
So buy the popcorn, fire up the group chat and warm up those vocal chords for the screams.
Insidious
New to the streaming sight, this 2011 thriller looks truly horrifying. Insidious follows the story of a family who leaves their haunted home to a new place – but it turns out, the house isn’t the problem, it’s their eldest son.
I have to issue a disclaimer, I’m shockingly bad with horror and couldn’t even make it through the trailer without ripping out my headphones at least three times – pathetic, I know.
Harry Potter is all grown up, and Daniel Radcliffe finds himself in the role of a lawyer. Leaving London, the young professional winds up in a small community trying to source a buyer for a house.
Little does he know about the curse that follows it.
The nail bitter will have you hanging on the edge of your seat as the supernatural sets up in your living room.
Scary Movie 1, 2 & 3
If you’re anything like me, the Scary Movie instalments should be right up your alley.
The light-hearted goof fest is perfect for all the horror wimps of the world.
Ensure you have enough snacks to get you through for an entire Scary Movie marathon, as Netflix has all three on site.
Kick back and enjoy the frightfully funny parody which takes the piss out of some of the biggest movie titles.
Cargo (2018)
Zombie lovers gear up, this 2018 dark horror movie that will mess with your mind.
The film takes a fresh approach to the zombie genre as it’s much more character driven.
Martin Freeman plays a cracker leading role, as he desperately searches the Australian wilderness looking for someone to protect and care for his infant daughter.
Carrie
One of the all time CLASSICS, it would be a crime to leave out Carrie. If you haven't seen this teenage flick from the 70s – you need to watch it immediately.
Adapted from Stephen King's horror novel, Carrie isn't your average basic b*tch, the girl has telekinetic abilities and she ain't afraid to use them.
The teen unleashes the inner beast when the 'in crowd' targets her during prom – you go gal!
Bonus content:
If you haven't got enough time to squeeze a movie into your schedule, don't worry – I've got you sorted.
Get into the Halloween spirit when the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina hits our screens on October 26 on Netflix.
For all those who don't know, Sabrina is getting a revamp unlike any other.
Wave goodbye to the wholesome Spellman you once knew, this remake will be much darker.
Twitter user, Abby Govindan shared pictures of a badass survey – which was put together by her mate Katie Miller.
Abby revealed that Katie gives it to “every guy she casually and seriously dates”. – Fair play, don't think if we'd have that sort of courage.
Her motivation is self-improvement and the survey asks questions like: “What could Katie have done to enhance this experience for you?”
But this doesn't just work one way, if the exes want out, they have the option to “remain on the mailing list” or be removed – this woman has really thought of everything.
ugh imagine having the privilege to call yourself my ex
Katie dished the details to the Press Association about howthe idea of the survey was born and it's very clever.
She explained it was a way to get the information from the guys, without making herself vulnerable, “I wanted to be equally passive-aggressive,” she joked.
And it seems to have been well received by the lads – “I’m quite a goofball so most guys thought it was hilarious and in line with my sense of humour,” she added.
Naturally the Internet couldn't get enough of it and flocked to praise Katie.
This is a work of genius.
Finally dating has the structure and administrative bureaucracy it has always needed.
With Halloween just around the corner, now is the perfect time to start planning a spooky weekend getaway.
Grab a group of your most fearless friends and check- in at one of Airbnb's most haunted homes (just remember to leave a spare bed for the ghost you'll be sharing with).
Here's a list of some of the spookiest listings available to rent right now.
Nestled in one of the world's most haunted cities, this 600-year-old apartment, eerily dubbed 'The Chamber', is every bit as creepy as it sounds.
Those daring enough to stay here have reported everything from unexplained bumps in the night, to encounters with the real, albeit friendly, ghosts who call this place home.
“The flat is very, very old and oozes ye olde character, the ghosts are friendly too and the spooky paraphernalia great fun. You would be mad not to stay here.” -Jason, Brighton UK
While this cosy bedroom might look like the perfect place to rest your head after a long day exploring New Orleans, it might be worth mentioning that you'll be bunking with a young, raven-haired girl wearing a long yellow dress.
Host, Adrienne Parks, first learned of her mysterious house guest through neighbourhood chatter, and while her benign presence is largely accepted, no one knows what exactly she is searching for.
“This is our go-to place in New Orleans. The location is ideal, and the mansion is perfect – filled to the brim with the whimsical, hysterical, and sometimes perception-shifting.” – Michael, Florida
This historic civil war farm house would provide the perfect setting to any Hollywood horror film.
It's idyllic location and vintage interiors may scream 'quiet weekend away', but in reality, just over 150 years ago, this stately stone house was a scene of unimaginable anguish thanks to its location in Gettysburg, a battleground for the bloodiest war in U.S. history.
According to the host, Stephani Maitland, “The column of cannons, horses, bodies, and all the injured soldiers was drug down that road. It was a horrible mess.”
“Beautiful place, exciting for Civil War history lovers, and rejuvenating for those looking for an escape to the countryside.” -Atticus, Cambridge MA
Legend has it, this picturesque property is haunted by the presence of a broken hearted women named Barbara who died for love in the tower of the Castle.
Some day that her sighs and wails can still be heard coming from the walls.
But hey, they do offer a continental breakfast for your troubles.
There are currently no guest reviews for this property, which could mean one of two things:
1. Someone is yet to muster up to courage to stay here for the night.
The official date for this year’s Late Late Toy Show has been revealed and we may be more excited than the kids.
As cringe as it is, the Toy Show never fails to make us smile.
We never thought watching Ryan Tubridy prance around dressed as Woody from Toy Story would get us in the festive mood, but it did.
Watching the Toy Show has become one of the biggest Christmas traditions here in Ireland and we honestly wouldn’t have it any other way.
Presenter Ryan Tubridy announced the date for this year’s show on his RTÉ Radio 1 show and it’s just around the corner.
Fans don’t have too long to wait to see what Christmas jumper Tubs will be rocking this year because the 2018 Toy Show will air on November 30.
“I had to try on my particular outfit this week that will be featuring on the opening of the Toy Show on November the 30th and that means Christmas is in the heads of a lot of people already,” the Late Late Show host revealed.
The Toy Show never fails to disappoint us, even thought we feel extremely jealous of ALL the prizes the audience bring home.
We can’t help but wonder will a certain boyband make an appearance on this year’s show? Westlife did just confirm their reunion tour.
Get your matching PJs and tins of Celebrations at the ready. The Late Late Toy Show airs on November 30.
