Hi all, I AM BACK! I've been away from this blog for quite some time due to revision for exams, then straight after that I went on holiday to Turkey. But I am back with plenty of ideas, and ready to get blogging. I come off holiday and I check when my favourite songs are going to be released, I noticed the date for Inna's song "Endless" was this week, but I had to double check on iTunes, and sure enough this single is now ready to buy! But it's not on the iTunes top 100 yet, the reason being is that not enough people in the UK realises she has a new single. Look at when "Sun Is Up" was released, the music video was circling on the music channels for a good 3 months beforehand, and the same goes with the radio. However this video is rarely shown and I have very little faith in hearing it on the radio. I had a few problems with Inna's releasing recently as quite a few singles have popped up on iTunes under the label Roton Romania. However I've managed to understand why. They were purely promotional singles that were released world wide (apparently; I have very little sources to back that up). However she is still under 3beat records and this is her new single... By the looks of things "Club Rocker" got dropped, as 3beat did plan on releasing it, and I'm sure I saw it pop up on a music channel, but clearly they swapped singles, however Club Rocker may be released in the UK in the future.
I am a big Inna fan, her real name is Elena Apostoleanu, I just wish she would do more promotion in the UK, and get those chart topping hits she clearly deserves. "Endless" is her new single, I wasn't sure about the song when I first heard it, but it's grown on me a lot, also I heard the song a lot in Turkey, they are pretty obsessed with Inna, I couldn't go a complete day without hearing one of her songs. Endless was written by Sebastian Barac, Marcel Botezan and Radu Bolfea (also known as Play & Win who are a production group who have also released a few songs and remixes). This is definitely the sort of song that would appeal to the UK; however I'm sure "Club Rocker" would have appealed more, but guess we won't know until they are both release. Will this song chart? It's doubtful, with next to no promotion, and very little music chart play, I don't see it getting very far, but I'm sure her fans will be doing everything they can to get the single all the sales it needs, I am hoping it does get onto the UK top 100 at least.
This music video is quite surprising, at first glance it's one of the videos you put to the side, but it's not until your second watch you realise that there's more behind it than what you think and there is a lot to like about this specific video. It basically sticks up for women and how some relationships can become aggressive, maybe not physically but definitely verbally abusive at times.
Inna shows how something can be done about it, and that sometimes identifying something is wrong is usually the first step. I love how they've portrayed it, it's like Inna is reflecting over the relationship with the male actor (who, yet again I have no clue who he is, he must have a name, but I can't find it on the Internet, this is the second music video of Inna's that I don't know who the guy is, the other one being "Amazing"). They show clips of the good times and the bad times. And at the end she ends the relationship. It's nice to know that she is showing what problems can occur, and that there is ways of getting out of it.
So without being biased I shall decide on my rating, the storyline isn't shown that clearly, but then again I like how it's implicit. The song really shows off her vocals, and it becomes catchy after a while. There isn't a lot going on but there doesn't need to be. So this is the rating I think it deserves and I'm hoping more people will download this song!
The Saturdays have been circling the UK for ages now. They are a five-piece band consisting of Mollie King, Una Healy, Vanessa White, Rochelle Wiseman (now known as Rochelle Humes) and Frankie Sandford. The latter two were both members of S Club Juniors / S Club 8. They have never had a number one, of the 4 four years they have been releasing singles, they never reached the top spot. I thought this song might have had a chance, but guess not. Will they ever get that highest charting position? I think with the right song at the right time, they'll get there.
"30 Days" was written by Steve Mac (who keeps appearing on my blog) and Autumn Rowe (who wrote "Swagger Jagger" amongst other songs). This song set out as a hit, and it looked like it would get a high charting position. On mid-weeks it said it would get to number two, however the song failed to stay up there and by Sunday dropped down to number seven. The song is about counting down the days until you meet the person you really like. And this has been made into a good relatable music video.
The music video is set around speed dating in a cafe. I find it hilarious some of the faces they pull, such as Mollie when she walks in, her shocked face is so funny. I also like the way how some of the girls fend off the guys, such as Una showing her baby bump, and Rochelle showing her engagement ring.
The second half of the music video is where they all get up and start dancing, some of the weird dance moves makes me laugh out loud, but my favourite is when the guy with the brown jacket is dancing and Frankie looks at the camera and makes a weird facial expression as if saying "what is he doing?", makes me laugh every time.
But what makes this video average? Well I don't think there is enough time shown on each girl, I think we see more of Mollie and Frankie more than the other 3, Una and Rochelle look like they have the same hair colour, so they seem easy to mix up, and we don't see much of Vanessa either. But that is all I have to fault it. Obviously they cut out Una as much as possible as her baby bump was showing, and she didn't want it to be seen much.
Overall a great song, that deserved to have got higher in the UK chart. It's accompanying music video is great, but it's missing the wow spark, there's just not enough to make it amazing. Their next single "You Don't Care" is planned to be released in August, and has already received rave reviews. They plan to release it as their first single in America, and it looks like it's going to be their biggest selling single to date. (As of 2013 "You Don't Care" has been cancelled and The Saturdays released "What About Us" instead, this song may just be on their soon to be released album).
Nickelback has made my blog for the second time, but they should be on here more! Tink09 will be happy as she is obsessed with them. But what has the lead singer done with his hair? I preferred it blonde and long! I saw this video a couple of months back, thought wow I love this song, so I waited to see who it was and you should've seen the face I pulled, I was totally surprised at who it was. Nickelback is comprised of 4 members who are Chad Kroeger, Ryan Peake, Mike Kroeger and Daniel Adair. They have been around for ages, but only got credibility in the UK when "How You Remind Me", and then I didn't hear from them until "Rockstar" and that was it, they will be in the UK limelight until the day they die.
"Lullaby" was written by Chad Kroeger as was expected. He has an amazing voice, that I know straight away on the radio, clearly his change of appearance made me unsure of who he was on the music channels. The song is actually about suicide, which is a common problem in the world, especially amongst teenagers/young adults. I hate how the UK, and maybe other countries, just brush it under the carpet, and pretend it's not there. I love it how people rebel and try to make people see that it is happening and that we should try and do something about it, Nickelback is clearly one of these artists, but also another artist called Pink, also tries to make things known.
This music video, is a difficult one. I hadn't actually watched it all the way through so wasn't aware of what happens in the first few scenes. And it actually gave me chills, and there was tears in my eyes. Someone could have warned me! I was sitting hear slightly listening to the Jubilee concert, and totally intent on watching this video, and then I got cold and tears started coming out my eyes. Thank God no one else were about.
This video is both a narrative and performance piece, it's the typical video you expect from Nickelback, and will definitely go amongst their classics. It's about a couple, and the woman is heavily pregnant, but after giving birth, she dies, leaving the guy to take up the responsibilities and bring up the baby by himself. He is thinking of adoption, but when his phone falls out of his pocket revealing a video of the baby's mother talking, and he shows the video to the baby, and it's the thing that makes him confident he could bring up the baby on his own.
Apparently there is a pure performance piece music video that is also shown on the UK music channels, that misses out the narrative altogether, which I feel is totally wrong, this narrative is what makes this video superb, and I cannot fault it.
Overall a great song and a great music video that brought me to tears. Nickelback has stopped promoting in the UK, and are relying on the music channels and the radio stations, but that isn't enough nowadays, and I just hope Nickelback manages to stay afloat, and start promoting in the UK, otherwise we're going to have to say bye to them.
Aiden Grimshaw becomes my New Release, I am in love with this song, I never really liked him when he was on the seventh series of The X Factor UK, I thought he was nervous and not confident enough, I also thought he wasn't ready. But it may have just been down to the songs, there's no songs out there that sounds like this one, he has definitely found his niche, and I cannot wait to hear more from him. There were many artists to have embarked on a musical career, these are: Matt Cardle (winner), Rebecca Ferguson (second), One Direction (third), Cher Lloyd (fourth), Mary Byrne (fifth), Katie Waissell (seventh), Paije Richardson (eighth), Aiden Grimshaw (ninth), Belle Amie (eleventh), Storm Lee (fourteenth) and Nicolò Festa (sixteenth).
"Is This Love" was written by Aiden Grimshaw, Jarrad Rogers and Joel Pott (frontman of Athlete). You can tell Aiden wrote this song with help, as there are no other songs out there quite like this one, and that is what makes it so amazing, and is the main reason why I love it so much! I always get this song confused with "If This Is Love" by The Saturdays, as they both have similar names, and I always start singing The Saturdays' song before this one plays on YouTube.
This music video is a big narrative piece, but how can you not enjoy watching it. Aiden Grimshaw appears as an extra in this video, and I always have to look out for him every time I see this on the music channels. I have yet to hear this song on the radio, let's hope that people download it and it gets a high charting position so more radio stations have to play it.
There is a big story with this one, obviously he is doing drugs, and he is definitely on a downward spiral, with drinking and smoking as well. Life seriously isn't going his way, I love the little surprising scenes in this, and there's a lot going on.
Overall it's a great song that is different to what is out there at the moment. It's accompanying music video represents the song perfectly, but I would have liked to have seen more of Aiden Grimshaw about and it just feels like this music video is missing some sort of spark.
Loreen, real name Lorine Talhaoui, won the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan. And she is definitely a worthy winner. She has scored quite a few number ones with this song across Europe, and I have to admit it is such a great song. But I also hope that she doesn't disappear like many winners before her. They tend to release one song worldwide and they chart pretty high, and then they only release in their country and it's kind of a disappointment as we all voted you to win. Could Loreen change all that and stay current in the whole of Europe? She is promoting by doing interviews here there and everywhere, so it's a possibility. She came 4th in the first series of Idol (Sweden), the Swedish version of Pop Idol. And won Sweden's national selection for Eurovision called Melodifestivalen which is one of the biggest competitions in Sweden. And has since got a lot of success from her singles that she released in Sweden.
"Euphoria" was written by Thomas G:Son (I wonder where we've heard that name before, he helped write "Quédate Conmigo") and Peter Boström. Sweden deserved this song, I was surprised they didn't win last year with Eric Saade. But Loreen is going to be a superstar, and this song is amazing, but surprisingly Peter Boström also wrote Tooji's song, which came last in the Eurovision 2012. So it's definitely all upon the song and how it is sung.
This music video is a performance piece, on what she did for Sweden's selection into the Eurovision. It is a great song, but is it the best music video? It's difficult for me to like a performance piece, but has this one got the qualities?
I think not. I'm sorry, but she's there all by herself singing, I like the fact that she is moving about the stage and using choreography she has been given, or she made up herself, but it isn't that good. I love it when the guy comes along and they have a dance fight, which is pretty interesting to watch.
I love the snow machines, I want them myself. And that is all I have to comment on the music video. It doesn't blow me away, but it doesn't make me hate it either. The only thing I can say is that it doesn't link in well with the song, and I was expecting something a bit better. Anyhow here's my rating.
