post forty-eight: this week's favourite.

Yup, a few more songs that I enjoy and felt I should share with you.

this is One Direction, as I'm sure you know since I've talked about them often. They were planning on making a music video, but instead they filmed it themselves of them just doing random stuff on tour, and they donated all the money they would have used to make a music video to a charity called Comic Relief. I thought that was really neat. They did a cover of Blondie's One Way Or Another, and while it is pretty pop-boy-bandy, I can't stop listening to it.

I think it's really neat that they made this video themselves, like homemade. It saved so much money, and the fact that they spent days in Ghana for charity and then donated all the music video would-be money to Comic Relief is awe-inspiring. People say that this band does nothing for society and they're in it for the money.... Clearly they aren't.

post forty-seven: albums vs singles. *makeup blog

I think that listening to singles instead of albums at a time is a new thing, because now we have the option to easily skip tracks and go to a new artist entirely. It takes about five seconds, maybe less, to switch songs to a completely different artist that we feel like listening to.
When there were just vinyls, in order to change the artist, you had to get up, walk to the record player, take off the vinyl, switch to a different one, etc, it just took too much work (for a lazy person). So most people enjoyed the album and just left it on; they didn't have the option to just download one song they like onto their iPod.
This resulted in artists now making singles that people can buy (or illegally download) so they get more money but just with one song. If you happen to like one song by one artist, you can just get that one instead of having to buy the whole album, and that's why I think most people like to listen to singles and not albums anymore. Plus, no one has the attention span. As time has progressed, music genres and types of music have broadened a LOT, so there are more types of music to listen to instead of confining yourself to one type and one artist.

post forty six: repetitive songs.

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I think that repetitive songs aren't necessarily as lyrically deep as other songs, they are also sometimes the most catchy. For example, I Wanna Be Sedated by the Ramones (who I will write about in another entry) is the most repetitive song I can think of at the moment; with the words "na na na na, na na na na na, I wanna be sedated" used over and over again. But everyone knows that song, and it gets stuck in your head easily.
The song "Love Me Do" by The Beatles is extremely repetitive, with only seventeen words. There is a chorus, and there's one verse, and it goes over and over again. Really a very boring song, but everyone knows it, again, and it's not hard to know the words to, hence, getting it stuck in your head easily.
Sometimes repetitive songs can be the best songs out there, I Wanna Be Sedated is very repetitive but I like it a lot and it's the perfect song to jam out to.

post forty-five: the grammys.

--edit-- I found this post and another post in my drafts and they hadn't been published. I asked Mr. A to put in a fifty for both since they didn't publish. --

I thought the grammys were debatably good. There was Taylor Swift's opening performance, and we all know how I feel about Taylor Swift; I can't stand her. She tried to make a jab at an ex boyfriend in her song (oh wait isn't that every song), once again dragging her maturity level down to age 14.

Then when Ed Sheeran performed with Elton John, I nearly FLIPPED OUT. It was PERFECT, he sounded so good. They both did. I have no complaints. The A Team is a song that I will willingly jam out to every single time, and it will never get old.

Mumford and Sons performed their new song I Will Wait (which I LOVE), and their passion while performing is absolutely outstanding. I completely loved it. They looked so into their performances, and you can tell that they really love what they do. They were lost in the music, and that's what made me want to watch their performance more and more, I was entranced by it and was sad when it was over.

post forty-four: more recent favourites.

--edit-- I found this post and another post in my drafts and they hadn't been published. I asked Mr. A to put in a fifty for both since they didn't publish. --

Just some more recent favourites I've found.

The first song is "With You Around" by Yellowcard. The song is such a sweet one, it's a love song to his girlfriend, presumably, and there's nothing about how she cheated, or a breakup, it's simply him telling her that he loves her and that there's nothing to worry about. It's very nicely written, and this is the acoustic version, but I've always liked those better than originals anyway.

Okay, you got me. I like Fun.. But once you get past their well-known and obnoxious song "We Are Young", they're actually pretty good, and the lead singer has a good voice. This song is called Some Nights, you should give it a listen, the melody is catchy and while the lyrics aren't exactly complex, it's a good song.

Okay okay so this song isn't recent, but it's still one of my favourites that I haven't been able to stop listening to recently. The Weight by The Band is perfect and I suggest everyone listens to it, even though we've listened to it in class already, I'd like to bring it back up.

post forty three: Lennon vs McCartney.

Today, mr a asked us to choose between Lennon's Imagine and McCartney's Ram. I chose Lennon, because the songs just seem to have more emotion behind them.
But I'd also like to keep in mind that they're both extremely talented in their own way. Paul had a full voice and was the definition of versatility when it came to instruments. He could write songs with the bounciest or the most catchy melodies. While John was the lyric man. He wrote the best lyrics out of the two in my opinion. We get some stuff from him with lyrics like "you may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one" and you just think "wow." I think Lennon and McCartney are just as talented as the other, but in very different ways.

post forty-two: joni mitchell.

Joni Mitchell has a range and a talent like no other. It is rare to come across a talent as remarkable as hers is. Her ability to hit notes in a range I wasn't aware existed is astounding, as well as the lyrics to her songs and the stories behind them. The last song on the album we listened to has an interesting story. I was only half paying attention at first, but when we analyzed the song I was very interested. Some songs, you don't realise the pure emotions and raw talent behind them until you listen to them.