Muse

Some said it leaked bu accident, some said it was purposely leaked by the record company to generate publicity. Regardless of the reason, Jolin Tsai's latest offering LEAKED!!! I can overlook the 128K or 192K quality, I just need to hear it for myself was this album worth the wait. After putting it on replay the whole day, I must say Jolin has outdid herself again.

The album's track listing is quite balance in terms of dance tracks and ballad. We all saw what Jolin can do in 'The Great Artist' and the amount of solid cash her record company is willing to spend on her. The first part of the album is made up of dance track, such as the pop-ish 'Dr. Jolin', Euro-pop-ish 'Ecstasy', the single ladies anthem 'Friday The 13th' and 'Beast' which she wrote herselft. I'm soooooo hooked on 'Ecstasy', even though is sound like 'Love Player 2.0'. Kudos to Qing Feng from Soda Green for coming up with this song.

The second half of the album is consist of ballads, such as her second single 'The Wondering Poet', 'Colour Photo', 'Someone' etc. Her choice of ballads these time around shows much more maturity and her voice sounds much more experience. I usually just skip her ballads but this time I actually ended up liking them all, especially the last track on the album 'I'. It may be the most personal but yet the most simple song Jolin ever did. One can never go wrong with a ballad written by Tanya Chua. It fits as a perfect ending for this album.

So in the end, as a fan, I was not disappointed. It was really worth the wait. This could possibly be the best album of the year (in the Chinese entertainment industry). Now this year would be perfection if Jay Chou would stop fooling around with his underage girlfriend and stop making mysterious movie so he can sing the theme song. We need your album! 





     

Feb

So January is dead and gone, and  we're half way through February. My last post here was on January, which seems to be a few centuries ago, and some of you might have notice that I haven't been writing much about me, just some random stuff that I found interest in or what might interest you in. It's not that I don't wanna a little bit personal, I do, but with the people who care. So if you care and my blog doesn't provide enough insight to my private life, hit me up, you know my number.

February. The shortest month of the year. Chinese new year is officially over, but there are a couple of highlights for this month. First of all, there's death. The last time I wrote about death, it was about Amy Winehouse, this time, it's Whitney Houston. I guess the glee club in Heaven just got a new member. Am I a fan of Whitney, at some point of my life, yes. I remember the first time I was attracted to her song was when she released her classy music video for 'It's Not Right But It's OK'. Damn, this lady got style and voice. And then I fell in love with her duet with Mariah Carey on 'When You Believe', which was the soundtrack for 'The Prince of Egypt' movie/ cartoon which was never released in Malaysia due to religious issued (if I'm not mistaken). She was like the Rihanna of the music industry back then, with Bobby Brown which was her own personal Chris Brown. He didn't almost beat her up tp death, but he does dragged her down when she was soaring sky-high. After the news of her death spread through my facebook wall and twitter feeds like a wild fire, I saw this particular post, where someone said that Rihanna's 'We Found Love' video was like the story of Whitney's life, but the only difference is that Rihanna left that jackass but Whitney stayed with hers.

Whitney 1963 - 2012  

Lana: Before & After Her SNL Performance

Usually I will check out a new singer or a new movie after there have been so much buzz about it on the internet. So, lately it seems like everyone on the world wide web has been talking about this Lana Del Rey girl, whose album had just came out around the end of this month, entitled Born To Die.

It seems that she has been making the headlines since last year, when she debuted her 'Video Game' single, which was featured on Ringer (another tv show on the CW channel about twins who hate and wanna kill each other ). I couldn't remember which episode this song was featured on, because this ain't a song that will stick in your head after a first listen. Lana's voice is unique, kinda like British singer Birdy, but most of her song kinda took being emo up another notch. The music video for Video Game was released soon afterward, generating more buzz and so many views on Youtube.

More people who didn't knew who this girl was, got their fair share of gloomy husky voice and even knew ho to spell her name right, after her buzz-worthy performance on SNL. Some said it was the worst live performance on the history of SNL, some said it was unique, some said it was amazing. But I guess Lana wouldn't mind what people said, because her performance that night got people talking, and her album is just around the corner, this is what she need. So, if you ask me, about her SNL performance (I'll post the video after the bump), I don't it was as worst as some people said it was, I just got the feeling that she's just not good with singing live.

Her new album

I Hate

Changes. Yup. That's the thing I hated the most about life. I remember the Joey McIntyre used to sang: "And I hope you always stay the same", but somewhere deep down I know it's hardly possible to someone to always to stay the same, life changes, people changes, every single shits in this whole universe changes.

I easily get used to the people around me, my surrounding, the way of life that I thought that I had designed for me. But then changes just walked in the room and swept me off my feet like Katrina, and I'd have to start all over again. Rebuilding my life, rebuilding myself.

So here I am, at another crossroad, another starting point. Saying goodbye to the way I was before. Everything ends at the start.

 

New Day by Tamar Kaprelian

The One That Got Away

This is the song that I always skip
on Katy Perry's Teenage Dream album,

because it always reminds me of you.

11.11.11

Secret Codes & Battle Ships

Okay, it'd be pretty unfair if I don't write anything about an album, which I had on replay on my lappy and my Ipod for days now, and I'm pretty sure most people had forgotten about this guy, or haven't even heard of his name. The album that I'm taking about is called 'Secret Codes & Battle Ships' by Darren Hayes.

Stronger

Music is the best therapy if you're down and blue. You can't either turn on some sad songs and listen to them until you ran out of tissue. Or you can sang your angry heart out with some edgier songs. Kelly Clarkson's latest offering 'Stronger' is definitely the latter of the two genres. The whole album dealt on theme of betrayal, hurt and becoming a stronger person out of it all. There's no 'My Life Will Suck Without You' kinda love song on this record, and there's no 'Never Again' kinda rock song here too. In Kelly's own word, the album is pretty much 'In Your Face' kinda album. And I still LOVE it after the endless leaking from Kelly's team.

Crawling Back To You

So what if you made it to the top three on American Idol just to get your butt kicked by two singers who turn out to sell less record that you do. The whole point of these reality TV show is the exposure. Once viewers have seen you and heard you and they liked you, then you're paving your own golden brick road to stardom.

That's why happen to Chris Daughtry won came in 3rd place on American Idol. I thought he was good but I was rooting for Katherine Mcphee back then because I was hoping she'd be Kelly Clarkson 2.0, and I thought wrong. Taylor Hick won but the only two Taylor people remember these days are Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner, which ironically broke up back in December. Plus, Taylor H. and Katherince M. both came out with flopping albums. But it was Daughtry who really stand out in the music industry. He was the first real rocker who came from Idols and he made it big. Real Big.

Para- Para- Paradise

Everybody knows Coldplay is huge! Coldplay is practically one of the most successful band around, they stand in the class of huge names such as  U2, Bon Jovi and so on. I'm not a big fan but I do pay attention everytime they released something new. They have a new album coming out soon, and they've dropped thier first single 'Every Teardrop's a Waterfall', which was good but the music kinda sounds like native Sarawak music.

But when I heard their second single 'Paradise', I was blown away. First of the all, the intro music was pure art and it instantly grabbed my attention. When the guitar and bass comes in, every single melody falls into place. Christ Martin's voice sang the lyric as if he was telling a story of a girl dreaming of a paradise. Man, they better have a beautiful video for this single or else I'm gonna be really pissed. For those who give a shit, check out Coldplay's live performance of the song below, and the lyric too.

A Promise To Someone

I made a promise to someone, who heard my cover song of Rainie Yang's cold war. Yes, people never saw me as a Rainie fan, but I do think some of her songs were actually pretty good, and Cold War was one of my fav.

So, I did a little cover of my own, and someone heard it. I ended up promising that someone that I would post it on the net, unlike my other covers. Ah ha, but that person just said on the net, but internet is a gigantic ocean, so I'm free to post it anywhere.

My first intention was to post it on Facebook, where everyone could see it, but the my link doesn't work. So, it's Plan B then.

Lost In Paradise

Okay, I'm a big fan of Evanescene, not because that I'm into emo or punk or metal or whatever you may call it. I just love Amy Lee (the lead singer)'s voice. She got herself a huge set of pipe, in my opinion, she's the emo version of Kelly Clarkson, which reminds me that Kelly once turn emo too on her My December album, which in turn sounds evanescene-ish, but not in a bad way.

So Evanescence has return to the music scene since their last hiatus, with their up coming self-title album, which had a lazy cover art work (no Amy Lee on the cover!? WTF?). The first single 'What You Want' was an instant hit, and the music video is yet soon to premier. The shocker comes when the standard edition of their album leaked online, ONE MONTH before its original release date. Never mind. We still have the deluxe edition to look forward to lol.

Disaster

Disaster's the word that would best describe Jojo's music career.

That was up until she released her new single 'Disaster'

She really slayed it with this single,

I actually preferred this 

over Kelly's Bruno-Mars-ish Mr Know It All (Great song though)

and Leona's attempt to be dance floor friendly by 'Colliding'

I LOVED Jojo's single choice

even if it sounds like Too Little Too Late 2.0

My new obssesion: Decode (The Acoustic Version)

I like the original version,

which was played during the credits

for the Twilight movie,

but I'm now officially obsessed with this version.

How can I not notice this sooner.

Some song sounds way better in acoustic,

This is definitely one of it.

Never Forget

I first heard of them back in the late 2002,

and I hooked on them, no just because of the lesbian image they portrayed,

but really I just loved their music,

because nobody make this kind of music back them,

Gaga and Glambert haven't arrive to the music scene yet.

But back then, we have t.A.T.u.

RIP Amy Winehouse

We all knew she was a mess. But we always thought that
she'll be around.

We all saw the train wreck she becomes. But we always thought that she'll keep on going.

Honestly, I didn't really pay attention to her music when she was alive.

Most people didn't.

That's why her previous records went sky high on the Itunes chart
When she was going to be laid to rest

Six feet under. 

She's just another talent lost.

And I regret not listening to her work when she was still here.

Now, she'll be missed.

R.I.P. Amy Winehouse.

She lived jazz, she lived the blues.
-Lady Gaga