Hey, wasn't I just talking about
songs with lyrics I don't understand. My lovely friend
Bella sent this adorable French electropop artist my way and implored me to check her out. And holy wow, I can't stop listening (or looking, for that matter!).
Rock-afire Explosion is proving to be an enduring musical act. This creepy animatronic robot cover band, including a dog and a gorilla, originally played at Showbiz Pizza in the '80s. Their creators, Creative Engineering, now have a
fan bidding contest where you can request to have your favorite song performed by them.
Those
2012 Olympic party performers McFly have a new single coming out on September 15, and it's called "Lies".
The song's pretty epic and I think it's one of the boys' best yet.
The fantastical video for the single starring Dougie, Harry, Tom and Danny premiered on T4 recently – check it out right here, right now and let me know what you think!
Awww. Talk about cute overload. The video for My Morning Jacket's "Touch Me I'm Going to Scream Pt.
Part of me wanted to dismiss this video for the Black Kids' song "Look at Me (When I Rock Wichoo)" as being yet another video obsessed with cutesy nostalgia, borrowing as it does from old, cheesily animated kids' shows. But I'm really liking this video, and maybe it's just Monday morning sluggishness, but I find myself zoning out to it more and more as I watch it. My eyes are probably all glazed over, not unlike what used to happen during Saturday morning cartoons years ago.
It's so lovely to see Will Young back. And also to see the finished version of his new music video which
includes that "moosical guest" (ha) I showed you a little while ago!
He played live at
V Festival this weekend, and the video for his new single has also premiered on TV in the past couple of days.
It's for the single "Changes" and, as always, I want to know what you think of the song and video, so let me know.
Technically, this Juliana Hatfield song is kinda sad and lonely (hence the title, of course), but the chorus is so catchy I've taken to happily belting it out along with her when I listen to it. I think "This Lonely Love" has a spot waiting for it on my commute playlist.
The video isn't particularly inspired, but it certainly gets across the aloneness of this lonely love, as we watch Hatfield walk around by herself on streets and near trees and on the beach.
For my money, the best video I've seen for Coldplay's "Viva la Vida" wasn't actually a video at all — it was the trailer NBC showed for
Kings at the
TCA press tour, which used the song's swells to perfect effect while showing off the modern-day David and Goliath story. That clip hasn't surfaced online yet, sadly, but now two actual videos for the title track from
this Summer's album have.
One (the official-official version, on the left here) is very similar to the iTunes commercial using the song, while the other (an alternate take, on the right, directed by Anton Corbijn) finds Chris Martin wandering all lost like in regal garb. So, which do you prefer.
Chances are if you're based in the UK and have a younger sibling or a young child then you have an opinion on
Teen Choice Awards host Miley Cyrus, of
Hannah Montana fame. So here's your chance to tell me how you feel about her!
Kids and tweens mostly adore her, adults are aware of her from
that controversial Vanity Fair photo among other things, and she's the daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus – whose song
"Achy Breaky Heart" I remember dancing to at school discos.
Miley's releasing "See You Again" on August 25 in the UK, and it's a dancey number with a rather robotic-sounding vocal.
There has been a spate of pseudo-celebs releasing their "singles" and "videos" onto the Web, like the recent one from Lindsay's little sister
Ali Lohan. I've felt a little barraged with these "songs" because they're pretty lame — over-produced, unoriginal, etc. The videos are often worse.
