Top Seven Battle Out

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The top seven of 2012.
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I know this is kind of lame to some people but I have always watched American Idol since I was six. Anyways last night I was watching American Idol and the top seven contestants were battling it out. The top seven are Colton Dixon, Elise Testone, Jessica Sanchez, Skylar Lane, Joshua Ladet, Phillip Phillips, and Hollie Cavanagh. There was two themes last night. Each contestant had to sing a hit from the past and a hit from today. It was pretty interesting to see how some contestants put there own twists to some of my favorite songs. For example, one of my favorites, Skylar Lane performed her country version of Marvin Gaye's 'Heard It Through the Grapevine'. I personally loved it and the judges did as well. A lot of things were said last night about how there is so much vocal capability in the contestants this season that in order to win you have to bring more than your voice to the stage. I agree, the contestants are so good this year that I can't predict who's going to win it all. Last year, I knew Scotty would win, but this year I can't say. It will be interesting results tonight because last week the top dog Jessica Sanchez was eliminated, but the judges used their one save of the season. It proves that you can't predict. Tune in on Fox tonight at 7 pm! I will!

Grégoire



Grégoire Boissenot

 Gregoire is a french composer/ singer-songwriter born in Senlis, France on 3 April 1979. He sings pop music and is signed in My major company and warner music group. I found out about him when my french teacher made the whole class find a french song online and bring her the lyrics. My favorite song is "Toi plus moi," which means you and me, the video is full of people that show their love for each other no mattetr if they're related or in love. Toi plus moi was a hit in Belgium, Switzerland and on the French digital chart. He has four brother two of those passed away and he dedicated a song to each of them called "Ta main" which means your hand.In 2008, Grégoire was nominated at the NRJ Music Awards in the category 'French revelation of the year'. In 2010, Grégoire became member of Les Enfoirés (which stands for "the tossers" and "the bastards")which was the name given to the singers and performers in the yearly charity concert for the Restaurants du Cœur (Les Restos du Cœur) which means The Eating of the Heart.Grégoire has said that his second album will be released November 15, 2012.

Straight No Chaser--Incredible Talent

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I recently saw Straight No Chaser, a ten man a capella group, at the Long Center. I could not have been more blown away. For amount of raw talent and beautiful singing voices, they were simply incredible. They are a cover band, changing songs from popular artists into a capella arrangements based on stacked harmonies and high voices. I listened to them a lot on Spotify prior to the concert I attended, and I must say, they were just as good live as they are in the studio. This is something I really respect in a musical artist, because in studios today the sound being produced can be edited so much that a live performance can sound totally different. They did hits like Like A Prayer, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, a Beatles/Stones mash up, even The Lion Sleeps Tonight. They did a rendition of Fix You that gave me goosebumps listening to it. All of the voices involved were incredible, with the focus mainly on the tenor section. They were both powerful but sweet, and had incredibly high singing ranges--not to say some of them couldn't sing the dulcet tones of the bass range also. I had the unique opportunity to get a t-shirt signed by them after the concert, which nearly made me have a heart attack. Suffice to say, the concert was a huge hit with me and I will be looking for their next show in Austin.

Boyfriend!

The famous teen singer.
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"I'd like to be everything you want!" Is what I heard this weekend as I turned on the radio. I seriously thought it was Justin Timberlake until I looked up the lyrics and freaked out when it said Justin Beiber. He sounds much more different than in his past songs such as, Baby, Baby, or One Time. The song was written by Justin, Mike Poser, and Mat Musto, it starts with a sort of whisper which makes him sound much more mature pretty hot! He than goes into a sort of Michael Jackson and Timberlake voice with a few high notes. He also raps most of the verses which sound really good although others think differently. I like the way he's trying out new things like the rapping it's not like Drake or Lil Wayne rapping it's his own rapping more calm and I can actually understand him. I bet your wondering what this song is about, well the title says it all "Boyfriend" it speaks of the kind of boyfriend any girl would want, "I could be your Buzz Lightyear, fly across the world." What girl doesn't want that? Enough explaining go and judge it on your own, but I give this song 5 stars!

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Life Saver

A picture of an iPOD with a 'Life Saver' skin.
photo by Noemi Rocha 

Music is a life saver in almost every situation. For example, during spring break I was on my way to a random trip to San Antonio. My mother made me sit in the very back of the car between my screechy voice aunt and annoying cousin. If I didn't have my music, I literally would have died. Also, have you ever had to clean your room, wash the dishes, or even clean the BATHROOM? Yeah, I have to clean my bathroom every Saturday. The only way I can survive cleaning any of that is when I pop in my ear buds and flip on some Adele. There is a huge difference in my efficiency and attitude when I'm doing anything with music. Another example, when I'm working out, it isn't an exaggeration to say I need my 'Pump Up Music' playlist in order to have a successful workout. I honestly believe that there needs to be different genres of music for different occasion, but every occasion needs music. I think music shapes the world into what it is today. There has  always been music and there will always be music. Lately, my mother has been getting on to me about the type of music I listen to. I don't see why? I mean yes there can be profanity at time, but I don't think music influences what I do in the day. Music is what helps me get through the day. When I wake up until I go to bed. The only time I'm not allowed to listen to music is during school. Which is lame. To conclude, I love music, I need music, and even the little ants need music.

One Direction into my heart!



The members of One Direction
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"Baby you light up my world like nobody else. The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed." Blasted through my headphones the whole ride to Houston this weekend! I heard my friend sing "What Makes You Beautiful" by One Direction a few weeks back, but never paid attention until this weekend and fell in love with them! One Direction is an all boy British-Irish band made up off the 5 members with the names of, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson. This band was discovered during the 7th season of the X-Factor in which they placed third, after this they signed a deal with Simon Cowell's record label "Syco Music", later on they signed with Columbia Records in north America. Their single "What Makes You Beautiful" was released back in September of 2011, and since than has reached number one in the UK charts and in several other nations. Their album "Up All Night" reached Billboards top 200 in the number one stop after selling 176,000 copies in just the first week. This amazing band will now be touring the US accompanied by Big Time Rush, they will visit Houston, TX June 24, I will forever envy all the attendants to this concert because I'd kill to see those hotties!


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Madonna's new CD.

Madonna's new CD cover

Madonna just released her new CD "MDNA" and it has gotten really good reviews from Billboard, Slant magazine, Entertainment weekly, Rolling stone, Poughkeepsie Journal, and the BBC. In this new CD Madonna is very revealing about her emotions even though she has already been personal (this is taken to the new level.) She's also into trying new things with her music her song, gangbang, is a good example of this. She has no fear of being criticized, or of looking uncool. Her song "I'm addicted" is very dancelike at least that's what Entertainment weekly says. Metacritic gives a rating of up to 100 and Madonna got the rating of 64, But over all her new CD has had really good ratings of even the most picky critics. The musicOMH critic Laurence Green said her music was very good but that her lyrics were a bit clichéd.I have never heard any Madonna music but people tell me to, because "shes good...she gets into your head and makes you love her." After all these good reviews from friends and real life critics I think I might listen to her music because of course she's the queen of pop and I mean come on  who can resist that.