I’m not sure when I stumbled upon Sleigh Bells, though I know I first heard them while visiting someone’s blog. Usually, I automatically mute my laptop when a blog has an automatic playlist enabled, but I remember being captivated by the band’s unique sound. The…
In 2011, I fell in love with Gotye’s wildly inescapable hit single, “Somebody That I Used To Know”. I loved the catchiness of the song, the honesty in the lyrics, and I was impressed by the female vocalist in the second verse. Luckily for me,…
Back in 2008, Coldplay was riding the success train after releasing their fourth studio album, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends. The album saw a marked change in Coldplay’s musical direction- the twinkly piano ballads and emotive vocals were replaced by more…
I haven’t actively followed most of the Disney movies since I was a kid. Part of the reason was that as I turned eleven or twelve, it was really uncool to be watching cartoon musical movies, and I didn’t want my friends to make of…
My motives behind listening to specific music differs from day to day. Sometimes, I listen to music because I want to get wrapped up in the lyrics. Sometimes, I listen to an album simply because it makes me want to dance. Other times, I listen…
For a while there, I thought Justin Timberlake might be done making music. I mean, he already had a successful run as the lead singer of one of the world’s most popular boybands. He’s the winner of of six Grammy Awards and even four Emmy Awards….
I’ve always been a fan of musicals, but usually the more conventional ones, like My Fair Lady, The Phantom of the Opera, RENT, etc. I think the most off-colour musical I’ve seen is Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street…I mean, a serial killer…
English rock band, Muse, has been around since 1999. I first got turned onto the band around 2008, but have gone back to familiarize myself with the rest of their catalog and have subsequently seen the band explore a number of musical styles since then.
It’s really funny to look back at some of the music I listened to when I was younger. The majority of it was pop music- pop princesses and boybands were the rage when I was tweleve- but there were a few electic oddballs thrown in…
Ten years ago, it was really taboo to say you met someone online. There was still that feeling of uneasiness about meeting someone “from” the Internet, because it’s so easy to lie on the Internet and so easy to be mislead about who a person…