Best of 2009: March #2 & #1

If February had an all-girl top, March was the month of the guys! Find out who came out victorious this month.

#2: Kevin Borg - Street Lights
(view my first mention of the song)

This has got to be one of the pop-y-est songs this year and I'm not the least bit surprised that it's Swedish. Idol winner Kevin Borg follows in the pop footsteps of past winners like Agnes Carlsson to make a BRILLIANT debut album. Street Lights was the song that made me give the guy a chance and listen to the rest of the album and I believe that's what the first track on any LP should do. The gorgeous, GORGEOUS melody, properly-used processing on his vocals at the chorus, the broadway-inspired instrumental and for crap's sake the STRING SECTION. I can die happy now that I know a song like this exists - it's an absolute pleasure to listen to this.

#1: The Script - Talk You Down

If you know me and my taste in music well, The Script are not a band you'd think I like. You're wrong - I have my unexpected musical choices as well. Coldplay, anyone? (I like them, so what? LOL) I may have caught on to them pretty late (but not as late as my classmates so I'm OK) but I do adore their first album. The main, main, main, main reason why I absolutely adore The Script is because the production on this album reminded me of a certain someone's style - my dad's. The emphasis on the REAL drums, the treatment of the guitars and apart from the use of the string section on this song, the entire album pretty much mirrors the production style I grew up witnessing the usage of and the style that defined Philippine pop music. For that I have to make this the best song of March this year.

New Music!

I can't help myself, there are quite a few things out. I'm almost done studying anyway! hmm.

• THE CRAIG DAVID CONCERT WAS SPECTACULAR. I promise to review the whole thing once all my requirements are done.. You had to be there to feel the brilliance.
• I've become a HUGE The Script fan. When I first heard them I thought they were this crappy Coldplay wannabe but then I turned the volume up and heard my dad's production in it. He didn't produce it, obviously, but all the qualities of something he'd produce were there and it made me tear up for some strange reason.
• Ronan Keating's cover album is out at it's number one in the UK. Not a big fan of the covers(Carrickfergus was better when Charlotte Church did it.), but hey - he's got four number one albums so you gotta hand it to him.
• Two new Mandy Moore songs are out. They're OK, but I Could Break Your Heart.... is still the best new song so far. Will be waiting for the album!
• Esmee Denters has a new song out - AND IT'S BRILLIANT. Just when I thought Gia Farrell would never come back, here's someone who sounds a lot like her! yay! hahah.
• Well, Kian Egan and Louis Walsh's STILL unnamed girl band had an Irish TV appearance the other day, singing a Dixie Chicks cover. They apparently have competition now, the new girl group with a girl who didn't get a place in the other band are rumored to record the new Grey's Anatomy theme song. This is WAR.
• Last year's Swedish Idol winner has an album out. There are some gorgeous songs on it but once again, there's no cohesion. They're nice songs to listen to though. I might review it after exams.
• Savannah Outen has a new song for this charity out and she sounds a lot like Jordan Pruitt at the start and though I will forever love Jordan Pruitt(and her utter brilliance), Savannah can be jaw-dropping at times.
• Pixie Lott got her first play Radio 2 some time back! Congrats!!!!!!
• I got re-addicted to Guy Sebastian some time back. I might do a few reviews as well... yay!
• Taylor Swift's song for the Hannah Montana movie has a video out already and may I say, it's the only good part of the whole soundtrack.
• Hold on, I thought the video for Moments That Matter was out already? Apparently not, here's a new one.
• Girls Aloud's new video is out. The album version was amazing, and I love the fact that Nicola sings first but something in the single mix and the video makes me uneasy about the whole thing. I'd love Revolution in the Head as a single though! haha.
  
  
  I guess that's it! Back to studying. Asian economics, systems of quadratic equations, uniform accelerated motion, Newton's laws of motion, Filipino short stories(which are like 10 pages each..), adverbial clauses of concession, congruence postulates, and everything else! UGH.