My Own Musical Background

So I know I have been talking a while now about what I love in music and what styles I like, and what people I like, etc, but now I would like to tell you a little about my past in musical background. Which is very intense indeed. I'm kidding. So growing up I was always more in to sports, I played soccer for 7 years, and in sixth grade played basketball, track, soccer, and baseball all in the same year. I high school I did track. But that's not to say I never tried my hand at my musical side. In 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th, I was in the school Orchestra. Viola. I actually quite enjoyed it in Elementary school, but when I got into Junior high it was quite tiresome. I hated having to be ranked in school by how well you played (the better ones got to sit in front). I was okay, but it made me feel bad when you got pushed back etc. Then my teacher got angry at us all the time, so I started taking private lesson to do better and when she wasn't that considerate. I decided to quit all together. I remember I wanted to join Orchestra in the beginning because you got to go to Disneyland your senior year no matter what, but I couldn't hang on that long. I guess I was kind of lazy, but i never really enjoyed Orchestra. I have also been in some choirs which is fun. I love singing, I just don't know if I am any good, but it never hurts to blast it when no one is watching.

American Idol is taking over the world...

You know, I am surprised at how well contestant do after American Idol. I never used to watch it. I watched the second season, and then the last 2 seasons. But lots of stars right now have come from American Idol, like Kelly Clarkson of course, Carrie Underwood, Daughtry, David Archuleta, Clay Aiken, and then my two favorites David Cook and Adam Lambert. I think Adam Lambert, Kelly Clarkson, and Carrie Underwood have done the very best. They are all really amazing singers, but I think Adam Lambert has a true talent. He can sing anything, he has his own style, and he an amazing range. Plus he is hot, but he's gay, but it's cool. I still think he should of won American Idol. He is a million times better than Kris Allen. Is it really because he is gay that he lost. I mean not to diss Kris Allen, he is a good singer, but definitely not as good as Adam so either American Idol rigged it or America doesn't want the best singer to win. Hmmm I wonder which it is? Anyway I still don't even like American I dol, but I like watching the people that suck, and then the amazing singers, but the rest of it is pure drama. I guess that sells though because it is the top watched tv show. Here is Adam Lambert's new music video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toR6e061hWY

Without sound?!?!?!?!?

Music is such a big part of people lives, that now some of the biggest TV shows involve singing and music. Think of all your favorite TV shows, they each have their own little opening with that same catchy song for each episode. Also in dramatic scenes and sad, etc, music is incorporated with all of this. Just think of your TV show and how boring it would be if there was just silence the parts that usually have music, but there was still talking, I don't think anyone would watch TV. Like in The Office, everyone knows that catchy tune. Now I am going to have it stuck in my head. Dooooo do do do doooo, okay that's enough. But you get what I mean. It's the same with movies, that is why they have soundtracks along with the movie, sometimes I like the soundtrack better than the movie. You probably don't even notice the music because you are so used to it. It's like muting the TV while you are watching it, you can't stand it you have to be able to listen to something. I dare you to try that, see for how long you can go with muting your TV during a movie, probably not if you haven't seen it before, but one that you know well. it will still drive you crazy. It seems to me that it is just a waste of time if you have nothing to listen to. So try it and get back to me. :)

Hola! Como Estas?

I really do think I like every kind of music. Of course there are lots of songs I do not like, but I think I can find something in every genre that I like. That includes Latin Music. My favorite Latin Artist is Juanes. I first learned about Juanes in my high school Spanish class. Before that I never really chose to listen to music I couldn't understand. But music isn't all about understanding the words, you can learn the words, but it's music to another nation as well. People is South America might not listen to our music because they don't understand it, but it is music to us. I have learned to appreciate all sorts of music in different languages. First I loved it because of the melody, beat, and then I learned the words and it all flowed. It's beautiful. I am sort of impartial to Latin music because I love Spanish, Spanish people, and their countries. But you can do this with any nationality. You can do this with any song in a different language. That is also what I love about Josh Groban, he sings English, Spanish, Italian, french, etc. You connect with all different sorts of people if you appreciate different genres of music.

Overnight Star

It amazes me when I have never heard about a song or artist before and then I hear their song on the radio and all of a sudden they are on the radio all the time and a top hit on Itunes, etc. I am talking about Ke$ha and her song Tik Tok. So by now you all know I am not much into rap, but I do appreciate all genres. And if someone loves rap I will support them, because they love music and you can't deny a fellow music lover. So anyway this song is kind of a white girl rap song, but it is AMAZING! It is like my new favorite song. Man I sound like a 13 year old girl. Haha. Really, it has cool lyrics and a great beat. Anything that makes me want to dance is two thumbs up on my chart. It is sort of funny too because it seems kind of sarcastic, or she is just making fun of herself. She also uses words like crunk, swagger, and drop-toppin', kind of makes me want to get my ganster on. I probably sound ridiculous. Young white girl talking about crunk. Haha. Man I am in a goofy mood.

A History lesson...

I know I m a dork, but I love the song "We didn't start the fire" by Billy Joel. I think it is brilliant for songs to teach something. If you haven't heard this song, it is a timeline about main events throughout the 1900's by decade. It is brilliant and I can't help, but sing along. I have noticed this with other songs as well, it is so much easier to remember stuff if it's in a song. I learned about this song in my junior year of high school in AP US History class. Ever since then it has been one of my favorites. I know all the words too now :). I just have to post the lyrics because it is so cool.

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenberg’s, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"

Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana Goodbye

Chorus:
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

Chorus

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge on the River Kwai

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California Baseball
Starkweather Homicide, Children of Thalidomide

Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a No-Go

U-2, Synghman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

Chorus

Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston Beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician Sex
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say?

Chorus

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, Punk-Rock

Beggin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, Heavy Metal, Suicide
Foreign Debts, Homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz

Hypodermics on the shore, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller Cola Wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire,
It was always burnin',
Since the world's been turnin'
We didn't start the fire,
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't...


Visit this site too, if you don't know what something means in the song, this elaborates each "title".
http://www.teacheroz.com/fire.htm

Everybody's "pink" on the inside

I love artists that have gone through so much and who actually have a story behind their music. Pink is one of those artists. I watched a Behind the Music on her the other day. SHe went through drugs in her early teen years. Every kind of drug imaginable pretty much. But so she could sing in a lub she had to quit doing drugs and she loved music more than that so she never did drugs since. He music and lyrics also broadcast her pain she went through with love, family, and indifference. She is so different from many of the singers during her early years, like CHristina Aguilera and Britney Spears. That is what I like about her she doesn't care about popularity. But her songs reflect her pain, which makes everyone feel her pain and relate, which makes them a hit. SHe had very popular songs in the 90s like missunderstood, just like a pill, family portrait, but her knew ones I love as well like So What, Funhouse, and so on. She has a beautiful voice, it's very different and so you don't mix her up with those other bubble gum artists.