Tired of sitting in the backseat Rihanna took control over her newest video, which features Drake. Featuring a different kind of love story, not a dysfunctional one unlike Love the way you lie, Rihanna falls in love with Drake, or the other way around.
The fairly limited range of locations helps keep the story somewhat fluid thought I still don't know what is up with those drummers even after watching the video a couple of times. Not to worry, the song is great and makes up for the ordinary video.
Billboard's Hot 100 top has the song placed on the very top. I guess people really like the song. Plus, Only Girl is on the 4th place so she's quite cool at the moment.
You're original, cannot be replaced
If you only knew what the future holds
After a hurricane comes a rainbow.
Who knew an acoustic guitar over Gaga's masterpiece, Alejandro, could sound so...so...amazing?
Definitely didn't cross my mind. Such a lovely Sunday, isn't it?
- Telephone (Lady Gaga)
- You've Got The Love (Florence & The Machine)
- Viva La Vida (Coldplay)
- Bulletproof (La Roux)
- Confide In Me (Kylie)
- Never Tear Us Apart (INXS)
- Rude Boy (Rhianna)
- Knights Of Cydonia (Muse)
- Halo (Beyonce)
Cause God makes no mistakes
I'm on the right track,
Baby, I was born this way!
Made a cover for the single:
Show me yours. I'll show you mine.
Words can't give a fair description of what is really going on in here.
Eminem's rap and Rihanna's excellently edited vocals on Love the way you lie received an equally awesome video. Hit play and replay again and again and again...
Transformers and Lost fell in love in the bodies of the sexy Megan Fox and rebellious Dominic Monaghan. Eminem and Rihanna give just as great performance, with the ladies edging out a bit on the toughs.
Megan's acting was excellent in my opinion. I hope the autobots are crying oil for her. Might seem like she's been taking some acting lessons, just to give her ex director a cold slap in the face. Well done you crazy pyromaniac.
Dominic seems to have a problem with things written on his hands. Remember Lost? Now Cindy's phone number, the intrigue. Punching walls and breaking mirrors gets fixed by a teddy bear and a flower.
Rihanna's new look debuts in the video, her voice gives me chills. Her subtle face acting expressions surprised me in a pleasant way. I'm digging her new look, plus it fits the whole fire theme. Looking good.
Eminem is a bit out of place in this whole thing. Literally. A corn field? Really? I know it's beautifully filmed, the whole flare effects are great, I've been looking for a summer field wallpaper for a while but that doesn't mean it makes you relevant in this context. Best thing he did was give a reason for the omnipresent flare effects, thank you.
Best [interpreting] scene is probably the one where Eminem is rapping Where you going / I'm leaving you / No you ain't. That and the funny hands in the air scene where they both seem high. Or maybe druken with love?
Dance in the Dark is Gaga's next/current single. It has been released to the aussie radios last week. Also it had an official cover since November and a remix of it is included on Gaga's latest musical release: The Remix [A remix for each of her singles].
Back to DITD: It is the opening song on her tour, it's what makes the crows start roaring so I think it will be more than welcomed. Rumor has it that it's only an AU single, that it won't have a video, that it's only a test and blah blah. No matter what the case is IT is an awesome song. Enjoy!
The sampled and remastered beat of this track is epic. Lyrics are so Kesha-licious I wasn't expecting any less.
Remember the white coat and clean hair? Didn't last for long.
Please start watching the video and stop reading. Spoilers and own thoughts below.
Brilliant music choice. Superb. Songs are great themselves but combined with the idea and graphical results they make a great commercial. You can't say very often that you love watching commercials but this is the case as it's even been nominated for the best TV commercial of the year. Don't know any more about those awards but I'm sure Old Spice has been nominated as well.
Six minutes to save the world.
Aston, the classical cover guys, had a poll up on their site where visitors could vote for their next cover. Bulletproof by La Roux won by thirty votes. Damn you! I wanted Alejandro!
Still, you can see that they have evolved, visually. They had a more interesting set this time [I'll be bulletproof]. However I feel like they failed musically. It's all a bit too boring and the cover doesn't truly match the song. For I while I felt like I could sing Paparazzi, it even fit. In the second half, or should I say last minute things picked up and I loved it. The it moment is when the blonde violinist kicked in. Epic.
I know I haven't posted in a while and I'm sorry for that. I've been on a short holiday as you might know and when I got back I just didn't feel like blogging.
The above image was printed on a custom envelope for my cousin's birthday. Her birthday was on the 29th. You can count the lights yourself if you want to find out her real age, but she'll always be young spirited, she works with children after all.
My mom, my sister and I went over to drink ice cold soda, Yin-Yang ice cream and to mess with her cat as it's eating pizza. Fun!
Speaking of messing stuff up, I had to wake up at 8:30 today to fix the email settings from someone's phone I played with yesterday. Yey!
This definitely needs an awesome sped up mix. Something electronic over the chorus would be sweet. DJ Fembot made a decent attempt. But what it gets, for now, is a video.
Lyrics are great though limited. Christina's voice on And we had magic / And this is tragic is amazing.
What do you think about Aguilera's look? Better or worse?
No time to waste.
One epic video to show.
Two internet friends met.
Three nights away.
Four days of sunlight.
Five different beds.
Six pools to swim in.
Seven chicks to dance with.
Eight-teen years old.
Nine-ty degrees.
Ten seconds of silence.
I'm getting the hell out of this town! Get out of my way! I'm taking a week off. If you behave or some hot new music pops up I'll post from my iPhone, otherwise sayonara!
Kylie Minogue picked her future single and started playing it in concerts but it doesn't really sound great live so I'll just give you the studio version. It's strange how she switched so fast from worshiping the supposed boy friend to pushing him out of her, supposed life.
Get outta my way
Got no more to say
Dynamite is Taio Cruz' current single, and it has a summery video. Hot girls, workshop, kinda like Rihanna's Shut up and drive!
Sounds like Break your heart, right?
As if one eight minutes video is not enough, Ne-Yo released two last night. One for Beautiful Monster and one for Champagne Life. Trouble is they seemed to have focused more on the first one.
The whole story begins with Beautiful Monster. The story is great, editing is good, it truly got my full attention. I like the song so it's all good:
But then it continues with Champagne Life. The story goes a bit back in time to explain some things but then it hops one year into the future so it stays relevant to the song. Not sure how they could've fixed it. Maybe by avoiding it all together, since the song is crappy? Eh? The end credits do say To be continued so Ne-Yo has a chance to redeem himself and give us a decent ending on a great song. Will he live up the expectations? Only time will tell.
The songs are from his fourth album, Libra Scale, set to be released in September. From the song list my guess for a/the future single is What Have I Done, referring to "creating a beautiful monster" by falling in love.
You might already know that James Cameron [the Avatar and Titanic guy] is directing The Black Eyed Peas Concert..movie...something. Will.I.Am said "There will be a storyline that [Cameron] came up with, which will be dope. It's a full-length film and it's based around our tour activities. We've toured from America and Europe, to the Middle East, South America, Asia and Africa. It's not like we go, 'Yo, we are international, you know what I'm saying? London and Paris!' Nah, that's just two cities. We want to go across the planet."
Should be interesting, even though I wouldn't go to the cinema to see it. Until then, Universal Music France gives us a live, high quality performance of Missing you.