Right. So I admit I watched ESC last night. It’s part of my line of work and cross my heart, I giggled a lot and found some of the tunes quite funky. Then there was Dima Bilan who apparently won the whole thing. (I switched off right after the music ended, couldn’t stand the hosts.) I’m sure I wasn’t the only one feeling a bit confused by the fact that his performance was a huge pile of Too Muchness, so much that someone, somewhere was bound to say “Look Dima, we know you’re going for knock out but this is a tad Too Much. Figure skating is fine but the guy with the Stradivarius needs to kick the Hammerfall posing habit and you look a lot better standing up than lying on your back in some kind of supermodelesqueish pose.” How naive I was.
After seeing the video for the actual song (where, inexplicably, I still can’t interpret his english accent) I understand that all of this is part of a grand plan. World cheese domination. Remember friends – we need to save the cihldren!!!
This right here is thee reason why Michael Jackson is obsolete. I hope you all refrain from falling for the cheap reissue trick and give much deserved love to the likes of McKnight instead. Now if the man would actually record a new album that didn’t stink, that would be a whole other thing. But until that day, can we please forget about that bullet dodging court-pro?
Gear is sweet. Loop machines are cool. And talent of this magnitude makes me feel helplessly small. Anywhow… I need to get me one of those. (Loopers, I don’t think Thomann has talent…)
I’ve listened to Speak For Yourself (not to mention all that Frou Frou) until my ears bled on a few occasions and love Heap’s music to death. (And her name.) Even so, this next video was a pure struck-speachless-moment the first time I saw it.
(Yeah, they’re probably old to most gear nerds but I know for a fact that half of my readers are pretty sane people.)
This is not supposed to be possible but someone managed to do it. It’s ruddy brilliant none the less. (You probably need to possess a great deal of geekness in order to love it the way I do.)
The promo of Adam Tensta’s upcoming debut album “It’s A Tensta Thing” landed at the office last week and it has barely left my speakers since. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the best album to likely go by largely unnoticed by the general public of 2007. I’m not a hip hop afficionado (though I know a few) but I know Funk when I hear it. And Tensta is shock full of it. (And my hip hop afficionado friends share my feelings.)
The next single, aptly named “My Cool” will drop on the 6th of November but I assume people more in the know than me heard it on mixtapes three months-ish ago. I do, late as I may be, predict that this should fill dancefloors aplenty the coming spring. Addeboy vs. Cliff (who also produced Adam’s first single “They Wanna Know”) have provided a solid track as suited for Bagheera as for Glory Boat. (Yes, I’m having a Gothenburgian moment. Live with it.)
Adam, in case you ever succumb to the pleasures of ego Googling and end up reading this; let me know if you wanna make some music.
