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
Picture by: Design Magazine



"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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One direction
Written by: Aide De Leon

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.

"Hey, Why Are The Beatles Good?"

Photo by por Marcelita 

I was asked that atrocious question the other day riding the bus home. I will admit, it made me a little sick to my stomach, as avid a Beatles fan as I am. This question, of course, started me on a super long rant as to the quality of the Beatle's music. The person who asked me this (and I will not name names) also said that they did not hear any emotional content in the Beatle's music. This made me downright angry, in some ways. It seemed ridiculous to me that the person could not see the emotional in songs like Golden Slumbers, or the sadness of The End in realizing that that was the end of the Beatle's careers as a band together. I told the person all about how Beatles music is designed to perhaps sound simplistic when you don't really listen to the song in question, but when you do--really, really listen--you discover a world of layers and different melodic lines and a depth that I rarely find anywhere outside of Beatles music. So to those who read this who are of the opinion that The Beatles are overrated--really listen to the music, and if you still find that you don't like it, well, I suppose you're just missing out.

Some good rock bands

The Black Keys

Mumford and Sona

So many people have not heard of the black keys or Mumford and sons, and i just want to say that they are great. Mumford and sons is a British folk rock band. The band was formed in December 2007, in England I'm not sure what part of England they are from. The band members are Marcus Mumford, country Winston Marshall, Ben Lovett, and Ted Dwayne. . The black keys are from Akron, Ohio and was formed in 2001. The band members are Dan Auerbach, and Patrick Carney, two college drop-outs. They are a American rock band. They revived the garage band thing of the 90's. In 2006 the band signed with Nonesuch Records. Their new album brothers is amazing and Mumford and sons album sigh no more is good too. They have become widely known and are awesome (did i already say that.) I personally like the way they sing, they have a nice rough voice so it sounds pretty great. This may be redundant but they are great singers and I do like the way they sing. They have signed on to Alive, Fat Possum, Nonshuch, and V2. So now I will be redundant and say it again I love these bands so much!

Stevie Wonder, the Eternal Classic

Photo By Story Accents

Stevie Wonder is one of those people who will always be a classic to me. His voice and the soul he puts into his music are amazing, from his early hits in the recording studio to the recent performance I had the honor of witnessing recently at Austin City Limits. After this performance, I became an avid Stevie Wonder fan. I had already heard a number of his hits before seeing the concert, such as Ebony and Ivory and Isn't She Lovely, but it was only post-concert that I discovered the incredible musicality and diversity of music that is Stevie Wonder. Besides his apparent variance from song to song, Stevie Wonder has an incredible musical talent--as a blind man, he is an incredible pianist and amazing singer. In the song Superstition, one of his all time classics, he hits a high C# as the highest note for his song. While this is absolutely an astounding feat for a singer, what was even more incredible to me was that at ACL he hit the same note nearly 40 years later. So many bands sound so much different in studio then in a concert even while they're young, so for Stevie to give such an amazing performance today is almost unheard of. My hat is off, and will eternally be so, for the god of soul with the voice of an angel, Stevie himself.

We Will Always Love Whitney

A picture of Whitney from an E! Online Article
By: Richard Young

I guess we all know that an amazing singer passed away on the day before the Grammys. On February 12, 2012 Whitney Houston died. She had one of those voices you couldn't help but fall in love with. Yes, she was that good. So I'm going to use this blog post to talk about her because I love her. Even Ms. Richey knows how to sing along to one of her greatest hits, 'I Will Always Love You', during class. There was many rumors going around saying that Whitney was addicted to drugs, or she was suicidal, but all in all her death is being ruled as an accident. Which is totally cool. I mean a juicy story would be nice, but this is cool too. Also, she has more than one song people! For example, 'How Will I Know', 'Greatest Love of All', and 'One Moment in Time' are all amazing songs by this wonderful artist. I sang 'One Moment in Time' in seventh grade choir. We sang good, but we could never compare to Houston's version. I have so much respect for her and her accomplishments in life. She will be greatly missed and is a tragic loss to the music industry. I guess she is free now and she can feel eternity. Well, I guess I should go now! Peace.

Karmin

Amy and her fiancee Nick

This weekend was my best friends birthday so I decided I needed to stay up until midnight and wish her a happy birthday, to do this I started looking up videos on "Youtube." I'm pretty sure by now most of y'all have heard "Look At Me Now" By Chris Brown Ft. Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes, and then wondered "what the heck are they saying!?" I know I have so I decided to look up videos of people trying to rap this song and I found a video of this girl named "Amy Heidman" who is a part of the duo "Karmin" and let me tell you I was quiet impressed! This girl did a cover on this song with her fiancee, but changed a lot of the foul language and made it sound amazing and you could understand exactly what she was saying. Impressive much? I think so! I went on to their youtube channel (karmincovers) and they have many more covers like Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO, Super Bass by Nikki Minaj, Just a Kiss by Lady Antebellum and more! She is such a great singer and seems very creative at adding her own twist to all these songs! They were on SNL February 11, 2012 and both her fiancee and her performed two original songs one named  Brokenhearted and the other song being "I Told You So", let me tell you these performances were amazing! I honestly believe they are both very talented! Keep it up Karmin!


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