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Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts

Friday, August 19, 2011

Favorite youtube acts #1

Yes, we're going to talk about the band KarminMusic.  Amy, the girl, and her fiance, Nick, both sing and play different instruments, including guitar, piano and drums! 

Amy sings, raps and plays guitar (what more could we ask for), and some even call her a white Nicki Minaj in the body of Katy Perry, while Nick sings and plays piano and drums.  We were shocked when we heard their version of "Look at Me Now" by Chris Brown ft. Lil Wayne and Busta Ryhmes, but our all time favorite cover would have to be "Super Bass" by Nicki Minaj.  Gosh, we just can't stop listening to that. 

And damn that girl can rap.  Their harmonies are great, the rapping is great, everything is great.

Below is their most recent cover for "Lighters" by Eninem ft. Bruno Mars & Royce Da 5'9:





Shashoo rating: 9.5/10

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Anne Hathaway channels her inner Lil Wayne

Anne Hathaway, currently staring in the movie One Day, decides to channel her rage for the paparazzi (and their nosiness during the shoot for the new Batman movie, which we discussed earlier this week) into a rap!  She rapped it to Conan O'Brien on his show Tuesday night.   We love it all - from the deep throaty voice to the arm movements to the "pop pop pop".  Will she start a career in music?  Maybe not, but she sure has the world interested, with the Youtube video obtaining over 500,000 views in only one day.   
 

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

5 things we learned from the new Lady Gaga video

So.  Lady Gaga dropped her new music video for "Yoü and I" early, her new single off of her massive maniacal weird-self-analysis, idolization-of-80's-rock-stars, kind-of-a-mess opus "Born This Way."  She promised us a new music video with her 1000th tweet on Thursday, but according to Lady Gaga's 997th, 998th, and 999th tweets "F**K THURS DAY."  Guess she was getting anxious.

Anywhoo, obviously like no less than 251 OTHER news sources at the time of this writing (we kid you not), we are obligated by the laws of all that is Gaga to report on this new milestone.  Gaga reaching her 1000th tweet that is.  Or it would have been, if it wasn't for the music video.  Let's be honest there would still be 100 news articles about Lady Gaga reaching 1000 tweets and 12.7 million followers.


AAAANYWAYYY, on to the other real Gaga News of the Day.  What does this new video teach us about the ways of Gaga the Wise?  Here are 5 new things we learned from this video (and surprisingly, there were a lot of new things in this video that we haven't seen in others).  Leave it to Gaga to make a video that pretty much has nothing to do with loving a man from Nebraska, and yet, according to her, has everything to do with it.  Did that even make sense?

More after the jump...

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Oh Nicola. You had us at "L-O-V-E."

Can you tell that we love newly solo singer Nicola Roberts (of the Girls Aloud British girl-band fame).  Because we do.  We can't explain to you for the life of us why...but her music just makes us giddy. Take, for example, her first single - "Beat of my Drum." Please note the absolute wackiness and the way that the letters from the L-O-V-E part look like they're spelled backwards. Adorable.

+click to watch "Beat of my Drum" music video

And then there was "Disco, Blisters & a Comedown, " which was the absolute best kind of high-end trashy fun.


And now we have, "Lucky Day," her second official single from her upcoming album, "Cinderella's Eyes." What can we say? Nothing, because we can't stop smiling. Those are some sweet and joyful synths. And we love how we're never quite sure what exactly her expression is.

WE DARE YOU TO WATCH THIS AND NOT FEEL A SUDDEN BURST OF HAPPYNESS. Not happiness. Happyness.

And if you must ask, yes, she's not wearing pants, or "trousers," as Nicola might say. We like to think that part of the budget went to making graffiti sperm on the wall stuff.

Shashoo Rating: 11/10

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Well. Color us surprised.

This is a lyric video for the new single "Fool Like Me" by Cobra Starship.



After some very disappointing recent singles, this is a very pleasant surprise. It's a good combination of tongue-in-cheek lyrics and punkiness. (Ok that's not a word, but you must forgive us; it's late).

Well done Cobra Starship.

Shashoo rating: 8/10

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Lights (Bassnectar Remix) - Ellie Goulding


When we first heard this song, we could practically hear it begging for a hard-hitting remix. As have we. And finally our prayers have been answered.

And fortunately, this is one of those rare cases when the remix somehow improves dramatically from the original (and the original here was pretty good to begin with).

And that Bass. Dear God. It's enough to floor a mid-sized town.

Shashoo says: 10/10

Friday, August 5, 2011

"It Girl" by Jason Derulo

Jason Derulo.

What happened?

He hit the ground running with the hit song "Whatcha Say." Now we have "It Girl," yet another song that begins with whistling - and not the good kind. It's always great to hear a song where "girl" rhymes with "girl." It's also always so romantic to hear a self-proclaimed "maniac insomniac" croon about how you're worth "much more than a Grammy Award." Good. We were worried about that.

This is Derulo's second release from his new album, Future History, following "Don't Wanna Go Home."

On a positive note, at least he he doesn't sing "JASON DERULO" in the beginning of the song.