Foreign

Let's try this again, since I'm up at 5am with nothing else to do. Hopefully this time, one of my posts will survive blogger's lawyers (change links from hxxp to http). Theme of today's post: Music I cannot understand! Alternatively called, music I wish I could sing along to.

Numbers by 8Eight
Trio touted as the Korean Black-eyed Peas. Part of this song sounds a little bit like MIA's 'Swaggas Like Us'.

Quelqu'un M'a Dit by Carla Bruni
Mellow French music by an Italian. Incidentally, she's also the French president's wife. One of my friends kept playing this non-stop last year, so now it's permanently stuck in my head.

Hekkushun by RADWIMPS
Japanese rock. I just found this song and it's so... weird... and... angry... but good. One of the most schizo songs I've ever heard.

Kleva (DJ Zhao Remix) by Mapaputsi
Zulu hip-hop remixed by an Asian. Yes, you heard that right. It's funny what you can find on TV.

Um, okay this is cheating. But everyone should also listen to Rachael Yamagata's 'Elephants'. I was lucky to see her live in Pittsburgh and she is so awesome. And did you know Will Pan did a song with Akon?!

Alice

This will make your head go crazy. Watch it really late at night when you're sorta sleepy!

http://www.yooouuutuuube.com/v/?rows=18&cols=18&id=pAwR6w2TgxY&startZoom=1

this site yooouuutuuube.com lets you link any youtube video and make it crazy. see above for example

Leighton Meester- Birthday

I'm really excited about this one. Leighton Meester can sing...unlike the actresses who have previously try to come out with music (cough*Scarlett). There has just been a leak of a song call "Birthday" which is by Awesome New Republic. (Should check them out as well. This is a free download of songs from their album "Rational Geographic Volume 1")

This is the original version of the song "Birthday":

This is the remix with Leighton:

This is another song by Leighton

Rye Rye

For those of you who loves the tunes of M.I.A. and Santogold, there is Rye Rye. The first artist signed to MIA's record label, N.E.E.T. She's currently 18 and comes from Baltimore. Her album was set to be released this past March, however it still has not arrived in the stores yet. Her new single called "Bang" just came out on iTunes though. So for those of you who are interested, you can check that out. Another one of her songs which is a fav is "Shake it to the Ground". They also did a remix of Busy Signal's "Tic Toc" which is another great song. This is Rye Rye's myspace. Enjoy!

Shake it to The Ground

Tic Toc

Last.fm

So...i know everyone loves Pandora...but I feel like their playlists are rather limited or in consistent. I think it works best when you're trying to find other songs with the same vibe by punching in the name of a song title. Otherwise if u type in an artist, for example Timbaland in my case, they sometimes sneakily play the same songs over and over again...

I think Last.fm does a better job when u're trying to find new artists, since they'll rate other artists on a scale of similarity (very similarity, high similarity...etc). Instead of pressing the next track button to find similar artists, it's results on a search page. In general, when you use last fm, u just simply add artists of your choice into your library, and when u want to listen to songs, they'll just do a shuffle of all the songs available. When you listen to the radio station with your own library, they'll list similar artists on the side. There is also a recommendations station for artists that maybe of your taste based on your library.

Apparently, they also have an iPhone app for those of you who actually pay $100+ a month for the services. I don't, so I haven't figured out how it works yet.

Either way last.fm is worth checking out.

PS. my entry might just be a tad bit jumbled and in complete in thought...since i'm just discovering this wonderful site.

My Robot Friend - Robot High School

A quick video post while I'm waiting for Photoshop to finish rendering. Hooray finals.

Ace Enders

My friend showed me this great singer and songwriter, Ace Enders. He used to be the lead singer and guitarist for The Early December. I find his songs pretty inspirational and they sound very pleasant. You guys should definitely check him out. Down below is a link to two of my favorite songs from him, Bring Back Love and Reaction.

Ace Enders - Bring Back Love

Ace Enders - Reaction

Matt Pokora

Matt Pokora is a French singer aka M.Pokora...R&B (a lil eye candy on the right =p). He did an album, 'MP3' with 12/14 English songs early this year in March. Timbaland and Ryan Leslie both produced a few songs on it. I quite like it, maybe it has to do with this whole idea of the French..hahahhaaa..right anyways...Its worth checking out. Here are some songs on his myspace player.

He did a song with Verbz (English/American rapper/singer/songwriter/ and apparently actress too. She did the song 'Swaggeriffic') call "They Talk Shit About Me". Its kinda cute, the lyrics. I think the reason I like it also has to do with the fact that Verbz shows her soft side through the lyrics. I think at least...there's a line in there in French, "Je l'aime depuis lycee." Basically translates to "I've liked her ever since high school." There's a line about Ben&Jerry's tooo! LOL.

Oh here's the videooo...it's alright.
Oh another fav song from the album is 'Catch Me If You Can'. He does beatboxing at the end. If you watchh the videoo!

P.S. If you go on his website. There's this picture of him in a suit standing in front of a panaroma view of Paris in an apartment. THAT IS SO HOT. a great city view of the most romantic city in the world with a guy in a suit! =P anywayss....SO CHECK IT OUT!

P.P.S. Listen closely and u'll hear his French accent! HAHA okay i'll stop now.

Mux the Happy Hungry Videobot!

Thanks to my awesome MIS (Managing Information Systems) professor requiring us to read this 100 Best Undiscovered Websites article, I found a fantastic site called Mux: Happy Hungry Videobot!

The basic gist is this: you either upload a video or type in a video url, and the happy hungry videobot converts into whatever format you could possibly dream of, including iPod, quicktime, mp3! You name it, they can convert to it.

I guess this is sort of music-related because I've already used it to grab a couple of hard-to-find songs from youtube, including Seriously's unreleased new song "Wish Upon" and "Praan" by Gary Schyman (yes, the background song to "Where the Hell is Matt? (2008)").

Jason Mraz- I'm Yours

Due to the high possibility of my head being chewed off tmrw if i dont do my hmk soon. I'll keep this short and sweet.

New fav song, I put on repeat.

Jason Mraz- I'm Yours