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Archive for November, 2009
A bit of Christmas Cheer… Again
Its Thanksgiving so now its more acceptable that I do this, but this is an a cappella group called Straight No Chaser and if it doesn’t make you laugh, well I suppose thats just sad, enjoy!
Adam Lambert… yeah…
American Idol Adam Lambert did his first award show number at the AMA’s this week, and left a lot of people wondering, did he seriously just do that??? Incase you missed it, Lambert made sexual gestures onstage to one of his dancers, and then made out with his keyboard player, who was a male. Lambert said that at the time it just felt right and he makes zero apologies for his acts and says that he may have gotten “carried away” during his performance. Lambert also says that if he was not openly gay there would be none of the backlash he has faced and no controversy… you go ahead and keep thinking that Lambert and we’ll sit here and be disturbed by your performance.
For me it seems as if Lambert forgot that he was on a little TV show called American Idol and we literally saw him perform every week for MONTHS and know what a usual performance for him, yes he has become famous but that in no way gives him the right to do what he did on stage, he threw a curve ball at us and you can’t expect us to just accept that performance as one we are willing to deal with after mild ones for months before that.
AND his claims that there wouldn’t be controversy if he were an openly straight man and did what he did are completely untrue for me. If he were a straight guy and made the sexual gestures that he did he would have women’s activists ALL OVER the news and, if a straight guy made out with a male band member, you can guarantee there would be much more of a backlash because two straight males making out onstage is even less social accepted than two gay men making out, or one gay man and one straight man… anyway, when you sell millions of records world wide and have more than one hit album, I might be more willing to accept a more obscene performance, until then, suck it up and leave those ideas in your head.
A Pandora Christmas… sort of
As I’ve written more than enough times, I am excited for Christmas and the lovely music it brings, so you can imagine my pure enjoyment when I discovered that Pandora would make me Christmas radio stations… Sadly I was let down, I know Pandora has mad just great radio stations for me for a number of artists and until the Christmas music, I was thinking that whoever thought of it was a music genius… and now I’m not so sure.
Now I realize it may be a stupid reason to have a bad opinion about the online radio provider, but I have decided that it doesn’t take into opinion anything else other than its whether its Christmas music or not, unlike its other radio stations, which I do find genius.
So if you’re looking for a combination of great and fun Christmas music, I think the list I created below might be a good place to start, and not Pandora.
Backstreet’s back!! ooooooh boo…
While going through my lovely facebook news feed I stumbled across an article that intrigued me, Backstreet Boys was in the title, and I just couldn’t resist. Now I was a secret fan when they were popular, one of those people who said they were a terrible band around my friends, but still knew all the words to “As Long as you Love Me.”
After clicking on the article and reading a few words, I immediately noticed they were making fun of my once beloved boy band. Thinking they must be crazy I clicked on the video to watch their new music video for the song “Bigger,” I soon discovered they were in fact in a completely right state of mind when they chose to make fun of the song. So much so I will not be posting the video because I just have no desire to look for the embed code because it is in fact THAT bad… But you can see the article and the video for yourself here.
Be warned… its not pretty…
Creed
Here I was all prepared to write a blog about how Scott Stapp was back in Creed, when I see that they’ve released a new album (October 27th they released it to be exact). After getting over that I am a horrible fan now, I decided to check the new album out.
The album’s first single “Rain” has already been very well received, even reaching number 1 on iTunes, and I have to say, that I very much so agree with the reviews.
I had given up on the band a few years ago after reading a few lovely quotes from Stapp’s ex-wife which I will not repeat but feel free to look up articles relating to him around 2004, you’ll see them. I had really given up when I read Stapp was looking to do gospel music.
Anyway I was pleasantly surprised by the album, so please, if you are a forgotten fan, like me, check out their website. The album is called “Full Circle” and it doesn’t disappoint .
Wishin I was There…
So I was going through some shows that I used to watch and I decided to watch “Charmed,” it seems completely unrelated to music, but I heard a song on it that I hadn’t heard in years, “Torn” by Natalie Imbruglia, which promptly made me go through my cd’s to see if I still had the cd with the song on it. Sadly it was taken in the year of 3 car break ins, but! through the joys of technology I was able download the whole cd, as well as a few other cd’s that were lost over the years, and I’ve got to say, I still very much so enjoy all of the music, and so comes another list of my favorite cd’s… from 8th grade through high school.
- Dawson’s Creek Soundtrack 1,2 (dont fight me on it)
- Vertical Horizon
- Edwin McCain Messenger (i still love every song off of that cd and know all the words to not one, but all of the songs)
- Creed- Human Clay AND Weathered… I think I’ll take heat for that one but I say bring it on
- Natalie Imbruglia- Left of the Middle
- Nelly Furtado- Whoa Nelly
- City of Angels soundtrack (weirdly enough where I discovered my love for Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton)
Oh it makes me miss the 90′s….
CMAs
The 2009 CMA’s were on last night and the top prize was given to an unexpected nominee. Taylor Swift is now the youngest owner of an “Entertainer of the Year” statue. This is the second time this award season that Swift has come out on top unexpectedly. (Flash back to Kanye being a moron) This is also the second time this award season that she has made history by being the first country singer to win a VMA AND is now the youngest person in history to win entertainer of the year.
And so I say, congratulations to you Taylor Swift
Aerosmith
As I wrote earlier the band Aerosmith has been having some issues and the future of the band was uncertain. Well in recent news Aerosmith guitarist, Joe Perry, says that the band will continue, without the lead vocals of Steven Tyler, for at least a couple years.
Steven Tyler has decided not to comment for sure on his future, but Perry stands by his story.
I, for one, am slightly upset by the news, but after the longevity of the band I’m not exactly shocked. And not only that, other bands have replaced their lead singers, like Journey, and don’t have problems packing in the crowds, lets just see if Aerosmith can stand up to the challenge.
Autotune
As most of us know, through the years many of the high profile musicians aren’t exactly musicians. A computer program called autotune has brought us lovely “artists” such as Britney Spears and the incredibly untalented Kim Zolciak. (I dare you to listen to “Tardy for the Party” and not want to rip your ears off)
The program tunes the person’s voice so that the pitch they are singing becomes the pitch they are supposed to be singing. While I can understand the use of it if the singer is sick and unable to reach the appropriate notes for a tour for loving fans, I don’t understand using it to make a non talented pretty person suddenly talented. I for one cannot stand listening to someone live and they are terrible when I have been tricked into believing that they were actually talented.
And so I say autotune… you suck.
