The music in the UK and Europe is quite funny. Either you constantly hear the cheesiest earworms from the states or you get inundated with bad Euro-Pop. In any case, here are a couple of the songs that I cannot get out of my head, due to the fact that every store or restaurant I've entered in the past two weeks has been playing them. I've sort of grown fond of these tunes, probably by the sheer amount of listens they've gotten. For your pleasure:
Bleeding Love, Leona Lewis
Apologize, One Republic
By the way, if you ever find yourself missing dance songs from the early 2000s, just go to a club in London. You'll quickly get your fix of Let's Get It Started.
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Saturday, 16 February 2008
Friday, 30 November 2007
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Let's talk Christmas carols.
Some people hate them. It's true that people have gotten a little trigger happy with the holiday albums. I'm as mad as the rest of you when stores play Christmas music before Thanksgiving. But Black Friday hits and game on. The soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas? Check. Trans-Siberian Orchestra, The Lost Christmas Eve? Check. Bing Crosby's Christmas classics? Check.
I set my ITunes Christmas playlist on repeat, pop in the holiday Partridge Family and N'Sync cds (back off...they're good!), and cheerfully drift off to the strains of the knock-off Jingle Bells, "Yingle Bells." That one actually features the line "I should have worn long underwear in that one-horse open sleigh" sung in a Swedish accent. It doesn't get much better than that. (Oh my god...I just found it online. Experience the wonder...)
But still...Even I tire of my music by the second week of constant play. I sadly start to think that maybe those carol-haters have a point. Well. We can't have that. And this year I've found a solution.
Christmas radio on your computer! Totally free! The ads are a little annoying, but that's a small price to pay for Mariah Carey's Christmas tunes. And you don't have to experience the shame of buying them! Everybody's happy. Well...except that Swede in the sleigh.
Some people hate them. It's true that people have gotten a little trigger happy with the holiday albums. I'm as mad as the rest of you when stores play Christmas music before Thanksgiving. But Black Friday hits and game on. The soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas? Check. Trans-Siberian Orchestra, The Lost Christmas Eve? Check. Bing Crosby's Christmas classics? Check.
I set my ITunes Christmas playlist on repeat, pop in the holiday Partridge Family and N'Sync cds (back off...they're good!), and cheerfully drift off to the strains of the knock-off Jingle Bells, "Yingle Bells." That one actually features the line "I should have worn long underwear in that one-horse open sleigh" sung in a Swedish accent. It doesn't get much better than that. (Oh my god...I just found it online. Experience the wonder...)
But still...Even I tire of my music by the second week of constant play. I sadly start to think that maybe those carol-haters have a point. Well. We can't have that. And this year I've found a solution.
Christmas radio on your computer! Totally free! The ads are a little annoying, but that's a small price to pay for Mariah Carey's Christmas tunes. And you don't have to experience the shame of buying them! Everybody's happy. Well...except that Swede in the sleigh.
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