New Music!

Apologies for the lack of posting yesterday, I was recording a song! haha. Then I had to splice everything and *gasp* double track some of my friends' vocals(I know I diss it and all but it does sound a lot better! haha.) but anyway, here's what I've been listening to for the past few days..

• I still haven't whipped up my review of the Kelly Clarkson single! I'm banging it into my friends' heads already but I STILL haven't written anything about it. I better do soon, before I hear it everywhere here and I start hating it. tsk. tsk.
• My dad got me re-addicted to Paula Cole. I'm listening to Amen right now, and I'm loving it! Very adult contemporary, like a heavier and less pop Sara Bareilles(I LOVE her as well, don't get me wrong!) but amazing as well!
• After seeing it all over the place last year but not actually listening to it, I finally got my hands on Christina Milian's Us Against The World and it's absolute brilliance! I'm kicking myself over and over again for not bothering to listen to this sooner. WHY? I love the chorus, it's heavy but not.
• There's a new Michael Johns and Brooke White song, and I love it! One because we haven't heard any new material from either of them and two because the song is actually quite cool. It fits both of them but I'd like to see Michael do something reminiscent of his We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions performance. Still, the song fits both of them well, more so Brooke.
• We finally have Natalie Bassingthwaighte's new single in HQ! For weeks I've been having to put up with a YouTube rip but yay for the HQ! I'm re-loving the song as well, I got a bit sick of it a few weeks ago but the HQ just changed everything! Definitely somewhere near a hit. haha.
• Speaking of HQ versions, there's this Facebook group going around to petition releasing GA's Memory of You in HQ and not on vinyl so if you're on Facebook, hunt it down and join! I so want to hear it in HQ that it's killing me just listening to the vinyl rip!
• Am still addicted to the White Tie Affair. I'm soaking all of it in before they get big here and I start absolutely despising them because they're actually very, very, very, very good. Duh. haha.
• Well Kerli has a cute new video out for Creepshow. I love the animation and the song's OK, nothing special and not as good as Love Is Dead or Walking On Air.

Ugh. That's it? I'm so annoyed with the lack of new music. Where're all the amazing albums and new songs we've been promised this year? They better come up with a good excuse for not releasing them now! haha.

# 61: Kerli - Walking On Air

Ah yes, the Estonian who tried to crack the US earlier. Am I the only one who thinks she looks like Avril Lavigne in a few pictures?

Back when I was still with Pop Addicted!, someone from her promotion team sent me this track with a press release. I gave it a quick listen, and I was like "OK, I don't love it but it's not bad.." and I let it slide. Then my friend told me she was addicted to the song, so I listened to the parts I hadn't heard yet(which was everything from the first chorus onwards) and I absolutely adored when I was hearing.

I love the contrast between the verses and the chorus, seriously.

You've got this really, really creepy verse with all the creepy elements to match and then once the chorus kicks in, it's like they all disappear and the song turns into this sweet thing with a gorgeous melody to match. Then it goes back to creep and back to sweetness and you get the point, right? Right.

Anyway, you can see why I love the song so much, but my friend said the video is kinda creepy(as the song suggests..). It's a bit creepy, but I won't freak out or anything if I saw it.