Archive for the 'Music' Category

Kids’ Rock by Tim Hawkins

Elizabeth March 17th, 2008

Thank you for this, Ralf!

Baby Engrish!

Elizabeth February 26th, 2008

Shamelessly stolen from Jus.

This has got to be the cutest video on YouTube. Bet you can’t resist retting her into your heart!



If you’re not into babies singing Beatles tunes, maybe hotchickswithdouchebags.com is more your style?

Marina is on fire (uhh)

Elizabeth November 10th, 2007

In this house, conversation comes to a screeching halt when the latest Bonds underwear ad comes on TV. Conversation resumes mid-sentence 30 seconds later. I can’t explain it - I consider myself to be a healthy heterosexual girl. but there’s something completely mesmerising about this ad. If I think about it too much I might creep myself out.

Tim doesn’t have any conflicting feelings about the ad whatsoever.

I’m trying to find the original on Youtube to share with my international readers, but having no luck so far. In fact I suspect that there is some sort of issue with the song they chose - I notice that for the past few days they have been playing a lyric-less remix of the song. And while the song was apparently available for download on the Bonds website, there’s now no sign of it at all. In fact, the ad itself isn’t even on their Recent Ads page.

I figured the changes to the ad must have had something to do with the lyrics of the song, which I couldn’t really decipher. My google-fu turned this up:

GASOLINA - Bonde do Role

Marina anfetamina
Marina gasolina (oooooo orra)
Marina caipirinha
Bum tchá tchá tchi tchi tchá

Meet me after school and i’ll beat you like gorilla
Bite you like piranha, vem brigar com a minha aranha
Oooooo orra

Egüinha pocotó
Marina is on fire

Etc, etc. If the English lyrics are the problem, I’d be pretty surprised. And I have no idea what the rest means. It’s far more likely that the mention of “meet me after school” suggested that the girls in the ad were school-aged, and some cranky viewers thought they were sexualising little girls. It’s a stretch, but that’s the only thing I can come up with.

All I know is that the song is EMBEDDED IN MY BRAIN when I am trying to sleep and if I don’t find an mp3 of it sometime soon it might actually explode from frustration.

Meanwhile, I found out that Tim & I aren’t the only fans. This is a video made by the seniors of some school called McKinnon Secondary, in which they recreated the Bonds Kaleidoscope commercial (which uses the same music).

How they roped their teacher into doing this is beyond me - my teachers never displayed this level of commitment to our ideas. Maybe that’s because our best idea involved an elaborate plot to put the school up for sale.

If anybody has this song as an mp3, they should really let me know. Until then, at least I have the lyrics so that I can sing them over the remix every 15 mins on Ten!

EDIT: I found the mp3! Uploaded it to my little music player on the sidebar, if you want to have a listen.

The “Leave Britney Alone!” trance remix

Elizabeth September 19th, 2007

I am not kidding when I say that I will be ripping this to mp3 and putting it on my ipod.

Why Tori Amos is my hero - “I’m not stupid”

Elizabeth September 7th, 2007

I will finally share a room with her on Monday night, but until then I have YouTube. And this little gem is one of the cutest songs she’s ever written :)


When I was 21 do you think I had a bag of cocaine in my car?
If I did, if I did
You’d never know it, no
You’d never know it because it would have been hidden.
‘Coz I’m not stupid.

But why are so many 21-year-old millionaires so stupid?
Stupid and cute,
But stupid? I don’t know…

Let’s just say when i was 26, or 7, or 8
And if i was a millionairess, what would i have done?
Many naughty things,
Many many many naughty things,
But i would have had a driver.

‘Coz i’m not stupid, no
I’m not stupid, no
Not that stupid, anyway…

‘Coz if i had been naughty
(I like being naughty)
But I haven’t been caught so far
And I am almost forty-four
Forty-four,
And I have done many many many many bad things.
But they are hidden inside my mmm-mmm,
Inside my mmm-mmm
So there’s no record or no fingerprints on it

‘Coz I’m not stupid,
‘Coz I’m not stupid
No, not stupid.

Tori for President.

Christina Aguilera & Herbie Hancock

Elizabeth August 27th, 2007

Presenting: Reason #579348 Why I Adore Christina Aguilera Even Though I Don’t Listen to Pop.

Anybody who can hold their own against a master like Herbie Hancock (and not get lipstick on their teeth) is okay by me.

Also, my boy Herbie totally has a crush on Miss A.

The Hello Experiment

Elizabeth August 6th, 2007

I discovered The Hello Experiment while browsing tonight, and was happy to find that the video has been uploaded to Youtube so that I can embed it here.

I have no idea who these people are or why they chose this particular idea, but it’s cool. And who doesn’t love a bit of Lionel Richie when we’re home alone, with the windows closed so that the neighbours can’t hear us singing along? Hello?

Would now be a good time to mention my “retro pop” iTunes playlist? What if I left out the part about Total Eclipse of the Heart?

The Hype Machine

Elizabeth July 10th, 2007

I came across The Hype Machine today, via Josh Spear, and decided more people should know about it. The Hype Machine tracks what’s happening on music blogs and creates regularly updated links to music that’s being shared. It’s a great way to discover new music, and if you’re a non-US resident who is missing Pandora as much as me it might help to dull that pain a little.

The Hype Machine

Apart from being a straight index of music, it also provides streaming radio to give you a good taste of what’s being discussed and shared online. They also provide links to amazon, emusic and itunes so that you can easily purchase the music, and a great search engine to help you find what you’re looking for. In particular, it appears to be useful for tracking down obscure B-sides and live bootlegs that can be difficult to find.

As a blogger who pays for her own hosting, I was initially a bit concerned about the impact that The Hype Machine could have on me if I was to be indexed. A quick glance at their About page told me that they cache any tracks that become popular to ease the load on our servers. I’m not entirely sure that this site won’t land you in serious legal trouble if you habitually share entire albums, but as long as you’re doing the right thing it appears to be harmless.

Have fun finding new music!

Because of You - Kelly Clarkson & Reba McEntire

Elizabeth June 21st, 2007

This is not a pairing that I had even imagined until I saw this video. In fact, I didn’t know that Reba McEntire was still recording. All I can say is that I was really, really surprised at how much I love this version of the song, and the video that goes with it.

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The original song and video were great too, but this one grabs me more. And that’s big news from somebody who refuses to listen to commercial radio ;)

Hearts A Mess

Elizabeth January 26th, 2007

Gotye has finally made a video for one of my favourite songs, Hearts A Mess. It’s super cute, check it out.

If the embedded movie doesn’t work for some reason, you can see it at their site.