3 posts tagged “music”
WTF is up with Melinda's song choice? Every week it seems to get worse. Ick. This is supposed to be a pop competition, not the entertainment at an AARP meeting.
I was disappointed in LaKisha's song choice tonight. First off, I was really hoping she'd listen to Lulu, because I think she'd have been dynamite singing that other song. Second, my brain was super bummed when the entry of the song didn't lead into Kanye West's, "Diamonds from Sierra Leone." I was ready to jam! Anyhoo, that song was boring and kinda creepy, IMHO. She's super talented, but I've enjoyed her more in past performances.
Jordin is so talented. What Simon said about wanting to jump off a bridge actually made sense to me in a weird "Simon" kind of way. She was that convincing in her performance. She did awesome.
I really enjoyed Blake's performance tonight. I loved what he did with his beat boxing and the acoustic guitar. Really smart and cool.
The bad? Gina was so, so, so, so terrible. Oh.my.god. Yeah, she's a rocker blah blah blah, but she was no match for such a great song. It was painful for me, and I'm not just saying that to be mean.
Everyone else was somewhere in the middle for me. (Except for Sanjaya, of course, who seems more like a drag queen every week.)
He may be a part of the Scientology freak show, but I find Beck's music and innovative spirit irrestistible. Wired has a cool article/interview about the concept behind Guero and its many incarnations.
Guero represented a new way to think about the album. Because there was no album, no static list of 13 songs. Instead, there was a project that drew on Beck's Latin leanings and the Dust Brothers' eclectic production to create a portrait of the artist circa 2003-2005 (a Guero Cycle, if you will). Such is the future of the album, as envisioned by Beck; it's something to be heard, seen, and reconstituted by artist and audience alike. As the Beatles did with Sgt. Pepper's almost four decades ago, Beck has expanded the range and potential of the form.
