Posts Tagged ‘Music’

The Gonzales Cantata

A beautiful and hysterical reminder of how underhanded and arrogant the Alberto Gonzales’ Justice Department was.

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YouTube Symphony Orchestra

I really liked this idea when I first heard about it; allowing musicians from all over the world to submit auditions via YouTube and then the best being selected to come and play together in Carnegie Hall.  Here is the result, which I think is just a triumph of collaboration. I only wish I could [...]

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One of the Boys PART 2

Go back one to see Part 1 of this review.  I had a lot to say…
Hot N’ Cold
This is the song that was sung on American Idol and I can totally understand why.  It’s the most commercial-sounding, pop-sounding, mainstream-sounding song on the album and American Idol tends to be about all of those things in [...]

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One of the Boys PART 1

Shamefully, I first heard about Katy Perry from a group rendition of one of her songs, “Hot N’ Cold.”  I liked it, even though I wasn’t too crazy about the way the American Idol contestent’s “blended” their voices together, but that’s a complaint for another day.  Curious, I went online and got the album that [...]

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Carrie Underwood Confuses Me

So, I heard one of Carrie Underwood’s songs on the radio (yes, I do like some country songs) so I browsed around and found a couple of albums to listen to.  I currently have “Some Hearts” and “Carnival Ride.”  Instead of reviewing them as I normally do, though, I’m going to pick a couple songs [...]

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Top Ten Soundtracks on my iPod

I do so love soundtracks and so I have a bunch on my iPod that I dearly love.  Here are the ones I love the most:
10) August Rush – I loved this movie, mostly because I am such a fan of music and the movie wove it throughout the story in such a beautiful, moving [...]

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Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana is Unworthy of your Obsession

As promised in my Jonas Brothers commentary, here are my opinions on Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus or who ever the heck she is.  They are not flattering in regards to her music, so fans should be prepared to be angered.
I picked Miley’s newest album, “Breakout,” to listen to and while I could rant about these songs [...]

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Jason Mraz at the Grammys!

Jason didn’t win anything he was nominated for (SO ROBBED!!!), but he gave the best interview of the night IMHO.  It’s so cute that he brought his mom as his date, his outfit is freaking awesome, and I love his philosophy.  I don’t think I could even act that laid-back at such a big event, [...]

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My Favorite Queen Songs PART 1

So, I’ve been going on a binge of Queen songs lately, mainly because I just acquired *coughcough* some of their albums rather than just picking up their really famous ones.  As a result, I’ve discovered that there are some songs by Queen that aren’t played in copious soundtracks and remade 5 ways from Sunday that [...]

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News This Week

Well, obviously the biggest news this week is that Barack Obama is the new president-elect.  Here’s a few articles about that: Talking Points Memo, NY Times, NY Times on the future, Fox News, Reuters, CNN International, Huffington Post, Associated Press, BBC, eTaiwan News, China Daily, Deutsche Welle, World Politics Review, 
Just to mix it up a bit, [...]

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