So another week has rolled around and we're prepared to hear our next Song of the Week!
I was talking to a friend who reads this blog recently (yeah, she rocks) and she actually listens to the YouTube videos I post. That surprised me quite a lot but made me feel all warm and fluffy and fuzzy inside.
She happens to be a massive fan of old music and 60's stuff. I love the 70's and 80's quite a bit but 90's and 00's music is are my main waters. Maybe just 00's music. And this decade I've been pretty pumped about the music coming out.
So she said that she really liked my post with Jake Bugg - he does sound like Mick Jagger. I was going to pick a song that sounded kind of old and jaded but still somewhat fresh (to get her into new music that's just as good as the old stuff) but I thought I might pick a favourite of mine.
I often say that the reason mainstream music is so boring and generic nowadays is that all the good songs (cracker tunes, if you're reading this, Joe) were created decades ago. I actually have a listening playlist on my phone with all my favourite songs all meticulously arranged and a Top 5 list - I know, I'm a music dork.
Guster - Satellite
This is a personal love of mine. The otherworldly, warbling scales in the introduction set a really spaced-out feel for the song, and the catchy melody and chorus just add to the mood.
I know this one has been circulating the Internet for a while - Ganging Up On The Sun was released in 2006. It's still a fresh song that I listen to when I stargaze or whatever I do.
It's such a great song to sing along to so anyone willing to jam, you know where you can find me. Hint: on the floor with a hobo somewhere. It's what I do. •~
Speaking of which, Triple J Unearthed High is coming up and I have a song written for it. I have no idea how to record it though because I don't have GarageBand or whatever and my guitar is a super crappy one that I can't hook up to a computer. And of course, my voice is rather unfortunate.
So that's this week's Song of the Week! Any song requests, song recommendations or just plain ramblings are welcome. I will probably reply unless you're some spammer. Be prepared.
I am a sufferer of some very sad obsessions. These are generally trivial wastes of time so I would say 'don't judge' but that would sound too hipstery.
1. Labelling someone as a hipster.
Pretty self-explanatory - hipsters are pretty fun to point out and ridicule. Nicely. Sort of.
Whenever someone says that they 'liked them before they were cool' or that 'don't be mainstream, be indie!' or 'yolo swag indie don't judge luvin lyf hipster instagram' I am gripped by an undying urge to pummel their face into a hipster triangle. It's so silly, being 'indie' because everyone else is. And being selfish and keeping brilliant bands to yourself. Which I do, because then everyone else will be like 'what are you listening to this is crap omg it's not famous because it shouldn't be you're listening to this cos you want to be indie you have no swag you nerdy geek'.
It's so fun to point out these poor people. Especially when they say that they themselves hate hipsters.
Beware those who drink coffee with soy milk and wear tights with shorts and beanies and scarves and claim to be part of geeky fandoms and listen to completely unknown bands with names that sound like they were based on a drunk text.
Then label them a hipster. Expect a lashing out in some sophisticated English or some exotic language.
2. Jedward.
These guys are the most ridiculous boys ever - John Paul Henry Daniel Richard and Edward Peter Anthony Kevin Patrick Grimes. Their hair is like a blond Jimmy Neutron's and their dancing is HILARIOUS. They're so bad they're brilliant. And not to mention their fake American accents and cockiness and I'm sorry I just can't stop laughing.
I was watching their X-Factor audition and cringing the whole way through...:
For some odd reason or other I am obsessed with them. Their odd demeanour and plain idiocy leaves little to the imagination but they would be the best comedy act.
I wonder if they're smart.
The funniest video EVER. It's like Gangnam Style except where the boys look like vampire zombies wearing hipster glasses and those weird spiky numbers.
And the odd pseudo-talking at the end. Very odd indeed. Although you couldn't expect much when these boys directed the video.
And for some odd reason I can't get enough of them. I think that these boys might be the big one.
3. Ke$ha.
Even with a dollar sign in her name, even with a name like Kesha, even with her trashy identity, I am obsessed with Ke$ha. I'm not sure whether it's because she's pretty or she can write really catchy songs or just because she looked like she was discovered living in a dumpster with Russell Brand but I am hooked.
Her songs are so catchy. Seriously. They're boring and generic but they tend to just stick in your head with such a vigilant stubborness that I've learnt to accept that once you hear a Ke$ha song, it's stuck in your head until you hear the next Ke$ha song. The songs are so annoying and such earworms, though, that I may just want to die young.
Her image is so pathetic - it's like wet dog meets sleazy rapper meets blonde child of the ghetto meets hobo. It's rather disgusting, if anything.
I think it's just the catchy songs. Somehow my brain equates 'catchy' to 'good' so I tend to hear Ke$ha in my head quite a lot. Save me. I can't stop brushing my teeth with Jack.
This is the weirdest video I have ever seen. Cutting your solar plexus open with a pen knife so that glitter can pour out and shower the people you just met make complete sense, ladies and gentlemen.
I think that's about all my sad obsessions for now - I can't remember any others (yet). Stay tuned for updates or maybe #2 and #3, depending on whether I can get a life or not.
